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Gary Johnson
gjohnson@pclink.com
President
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A virtual "think-tank" ABOUT the 21st century
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Gary has worked as an entertainer, journalist, media executive, professor, consultant, and lecturer. He taught more than a dozen different courses at graduate and undergraduate levels for a half-dozen colleges and universities over more than thirty years, and he has lived and worked in a dozen countries throughout much of the world.He has conducted research on the careers of presidents and vice-presidents in major American corporations, reviewed manuscripts for publishers, worked on book projects, written for newspapers and magazines, and produced numerous broadcasts of various kinds. During recent years, he has contributed articles to publications as varied as Communitas, a higher educational journal, and Le Temps Stratégique, a continental European magazine and journal of ideas published in Geneva and distributed throughout Europe and elsewhere, to which he has made several contributions. In 1998, he wrote a lengthy chapter for a book published by the Hudson Institute following a presentation at their global Workforce 2020 conference in Indianapolis.
Gary maintained a consulting firm in Minnesota for nearly 20 years, providing services, conducting programs, or making presentations of various kinds for organizations such as 3M Corporation, Honeywell, the United States Department of Agriculture, Macalaster College, St. John's University, the Edina School District (Minnesota), the College of St. Benedict, Mitchell Law School, Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU), the Hudson Institute, and many others. He has conducted countless seminars and made countless speeches in a wide variety of academic, professional, corporate, and governmental settings.
For decades, Gary has considered himself to be a corporal in a very large international army of scholars, writers, and teachers working to prevent or alleviate the destructive consequences of ignorance, irrationality, superstition, prejudice, and psychopathology. He believes that the technological and knowledge revolutions which are profoundly altering worldwide patterns of economic, political, religious, social, and intellectual life are still only in their early stages.
Gary writes and speaks on issues relating to the consequences of changes that are not only rapid and fundamental, but also greatly inconsistent. Overall, he expects the world to be transformed by the 21st century to an extent unequalled since that relatively brief and highly creative period several thousand years ago during which cities, written language, and mathematics were invented. That was the period during which recorded history was begun, and, of course, nothing has been the same since.
Because circumstances are altering so fundamentally, we can expect the years directly ahead to be very complicated, difficult, dangerous, and certainly surprising. We have no reason to expect familiar outcomes under unfamliar conditions.
When they're not traveling for work purposes, Gary and his wife Roberta divide their time between White Bear Lake, Minnesota, Buchanan, North Dakota, and Tucson, Arizona. Their twin daughters, Margaret and Jane, both live in Tucson. Their grandchildren, Michael and Graciella, live with their mother Jane and father Robert.
Another Tsunami?
More Than a Challenge to American WorkersTravels without Charlie:
Ruminations on higher tech's role in higher edOn the events of September 11, 2001
Reviews of Small Decencies and The Common Table
Review of The Parent's Crash Course in Career Planning:
Helping Your College Student Succeed
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