Biography

Tom Mahon

Tom Mahon has written about technology for over 30 years as publicist, journalist, novelist, dramatist and activist.

Since the early 1990s, he has spoken and written widely on the need to reconnect technical capability with social responsibility. Speaking venues have included MIT, the International Solid State Circuits Conference, the U.S. State Department, the United Religions Initiative, the San Francisco Fringe Festival, and before local congregations. His writings have been published in The Wall Street Journal, Electronic Engineering Times, National Catholic Reporter and Business 2.0.

In addition, his work has been covered in The New York Times, The International Herald-Tribune, CNN, CNET, Business Week and The San Jose Mercury, among others.

Mahon is the author of "The Fandango Involvement" (Fawcett, 1980) the first novel set in Silicon Valley; "Charged Bodies: People, Power and Paradox in Silicon Valley" (New American Library/Mentor, 1985); and "At Home in the Universe" and "Are We Having Fun Yet!" two one-man plays about technology.

He is on the advisory board of AHIMSA, a nonsectarian groups seeking to expand the role of spiritual consciousness in everyday life; and he was a contributing editor of "Human Factors" at ChipCenter, an Internet resource for electronic engineers.

Mahon holds an MBA in International Business and has had his own public relations consultancy since 1984 representing firms in electronic and genetic engineering. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area; he and his wife have three grown children.