John Sloan has been writing for almost 40 years mainly as a journalist, columnist, and tech analyst. He chose this path because of Lou Grant, a degree in journalism, and a need to eat. An early champion of the World Wide Web, he published a story in one of the first ‘Zines. (“Up in Smoke”, InterText. V4N2,). A mere 30 years later(!) he again placed a piece in a Web publication (“Darned Mysterious” in Every Day Fiction.). Between those digital bookends, Sloan focused on technology writing being by turns a PC computing guy, a World Wide Web guy, a data center virtualization guy, and a Cloud guy. He got out of that biz as the next guy will probably be an AI. Sloan was also a founding member of the Emily Chesley Reading Circle, dedicated to the greatest turn of the century ‘speculationist’ that never was. He contributed to their parody website and the fake journal The Meanderings of the Emily Chesley Reading Circle (2003). Sloan lives in London, Ontario, Canada in neither a rambling Victorian house nor a cozy flat. He does not own a cat.
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