James Robert Messenger

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James Robert Messenger

Birth
Miami, Miami-Dade County, Florida, USA
Death
21 Apr 2015 (aged 66)
Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia, USA
Burial
Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, USA
Plot
Block 42, Lot 59 [Directly on road]
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Father of the Information Age, writer, filmmaker. Conceived "The Theory of the Information Age" on December 12, 1982, while working for the American Telephone & Telegraph Company. Per the theory, the world's telecommunications networks were rebuilt from analog into digital systems to accommodate the interconnection of computers via telecommunications. His film "The Taj Mahal" was winner of two Emmys, and he was nominated for Academy Awards for "OF TIME, TOMBS, AND TREASURES: The Treasures of Tutankhamen," and "Koryo Celadon." Other film and video productions include "Defining the Information Age," "Carry the Fire – The Story of the 1984 Olympic Torch Relay," and "KOREA: Reflections on the Morning Calm." As author: The Death of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company – How "Ma Bell" Died Giving Birth to the Information Age, The Book of Love – The Guidebook for Anyone Who Ever Wanted to Be in Love, If I Won the Nobel Prize, CATHARSIS – America at the Turn of the 21st Century, and other works, and he was the editor of Educating Children for Leadership – Napoleon Bonaparte's Long Lost System of Education for His Son. As playwright and screenwriter: "River of January," "A Voice from St. Helena – Napoleon in Exile," "Do I Love You? – The New Cole Porter Musical," "All You Need Is Love – A Beatles Rock Opera," "The End," "My Airships," "SHE," and other works.

Cause of death: Pancreatic Cancer
Father of the Information Age, writer, filmmaker. Conceived "The Theory of the Information Age" on December 12, 1982, while working for the American Telephone & Telegraph Company. Per the theory, the world's telecommunications networks were rebuilt from analog into digital systems to accommodate the interconnection of computers via telecommunications. His film "The Taj Mahal" was winner of two Emmys, and he was nominated for Academy Awards for "OF TIME, TOMBS, AND TREASURES: The Treasures of Tutankhamen," and "Koryo Celadon." Other film and video productions include "Defining the Information Age," "Carry the Fire – The Story of the 1984 Olympic Torch Relay," and "KOREA: Reflections on the Morning Calm." As author: The Death of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company – How "Ma Bell" Died Giving Birth to the Information Age, The Book of Love – The Guidebook for Anyone Who Ever Wanted to Be in Love, If I Won the Nobel Prize, CATHARSIS – America at the Turn of the 21st Century, and other works, and he was the editor of Educating Children for Leadership – Napoleon Bonaparte's Long Lost System of Education for His Son. As playwright and screenwriter: "River of January," "A Voice from St. Helena – Napoleon in Exile," "Do I Love You? – The New Cole Porter Musical," "All You Need Is Love – A Beatles Rock Opera," "The End," "My Airships," "SHE," and other works.

Cause of death: Pancreatic Cancer

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JAMES ROBERT MESSENGER
Born September 4, 1948
Miami, Florida, U.S.A.

THE THEORY OF THE INFORMATION AGE
James R. Messenger
American Telephone & Telegraph Company
December 12, 1982

The Information Age is a true new age based upon the interconnection of computers via telecommunications, with these information systems operating on both a real-time and as-needed basis.

Furthermore, the primary factors driving this new age forward are convenience and user-friendliness, which, in turn, will create user dependence.

User dependence is what will ensure the full implementation of the technological platform that will become the foundation for a new economy, and dependence upon information systems is what will eventually distinguish the Information Age from the Industrial Age in the same manner that reliance upon mass production manufacturing techniques distinguished the Industrial Age from Agrarian Society.

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