Rob Swigart is a research affiliate at the Institute for the Future in Menlo Park CA and author of eight novels. He develops scenarios and vignettes for Fortune 500 companies. Published novels include Little America The Time Trip (both from Houghton Mifflin) and The Book of Revelations (Dutton). An interactive novel Portal was published by Activision in 1986 on computer disk and two years later in 'hard copy' by St. Martins Press. He co-authored with Robert Johansen Upsizing the Individual in the Downsized Organization (Addison-Wesley) a book about the changing role of the individual in the new global business climate. His CD-ROM of short fiction Down Time is available from Eastgate. com as is Directions an electronic poem. An interactive fiction titled About Time resides at www. wordcircuits. com. He is secretary of the board of the Electronic Literature Organization (eliterature. org). He has had a lifelong passion for archaeology and is interested in using narrative to tell the stories of the past as found in the archaeological record. Language: English