I am an Economist, and former Dean of Interdisciplinary Studies at Union, former Associate Dean for Information Technology, and former Director of the Center for Converging Technologies. I am currently, in addition to Professor of Economics, the Director of Union's Environmental Science, Policy and Engineering programs (ESPE). I have no opinion about Nicholas Carr or Slavoj Žižek and have no score in Galaga. I have, however, participated in Stardust@home and believe that Google is the Matrix.