Curiosity • Computers • Ideas • The Future

Science &
Technology

A lifelong journey from childhood discoveries to artificial intelligence

Science and technology have been threads running through my life for decades. This page will bring those chapters together — the early discoveries, the computers, the experiments, the work, the projects, and the questions that still keep me curious today.

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Science, technology, and a lifetime of asking “What can we do with this?”

The chapters ahead

My Science & Technology Journey

This first version gives each part of the story its own home. We can now build the chapters one at a time without losing the larger arc.

Introduction & Cape Cod Science

Why I built CapeCodScience.com and what I hope it gives people.

This is the doorway into the whole story: why science matters to me, why I created CapeCodScience.com, and how the site brings together resources, subjects, organizations, ideas, and opportunities for people who want to keep learning.

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Why I Created Cape Cod Science

I created CapeCodScience.com for the explorers, students, teachers, dreamers, and lifelong learners who understand how important science and technology are—not only to our everyday lives, but to the kind of future we choose to create.

My fascination with science began when I was very young. Like so many kids growing up, I dreamed of becoming an astronaut and traveling into space. I haven't completely given up on that dream. I would still love, at the very least, to see Earth from space someday.

That dream connects closely with another project that means a great deal to me, the Global Pledge. I believe that if more people could see our planet from space—even if only through the eyes and experiences of those who have been there—we might begin to understand something very important: there are no borders visible from space. We are all living together on one small, beautiful blue world floating in an enormous universe.

Perhaps we would treat both the planet and one another with a little more respect if we truly understood that.

I had originally hoped to pursue a formal education in science. But my high-school years were anything but conventional. I moved around quite a bit and attended five different high schools. Without the scholarships and financial support I would have needed, a traditional scientific education never quite came together for me.

So I learned another way.

Much of my education in science and technology came through my own curiosity—reading, experimenting, building things, working with computers, asking questions, following new ideas, and teaching myself whatever I needed to know next.

And that is really the foundation of Cape Cod Science.

I wanted to create the kind of resource I would have loved to have when I was younger: a place where someone can begin with curiosity and discover an entire world waiting for them.

It is a resource for the young person wondering whether science might become a career. It is for the teacher trying to inspire tomorrow's scientists, engineers, inventors, programmers, doctors, environmentalists, astronomers, and explorers. And it is for people like me who simply never stopped wanting to understand how the world works.

CapeCodScience.com brings together subjects ranging from biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, marine science, environmental science, and space exploration to computers, artificial intelligence, robotics, STEM and STEAM education, citizen science, museums, organizations, and many other areas of discovery.

My goal is for it to become one of the most inclusive and useful science and technology resources possible—not just a collection of links, but a doorway.

A doorway to curiosity.

A doorway to education.

And perhaps, for someone visiting the site today, a doorway to a future they haven't even imagined yet.

Science has given humanity extraordinary power. Technology continues to expand that power every day. What matters now is how we choose to use it.

I hope Cape Cod Science helps people use that knowledge wisely, creatively, and ultimately for the good of humanity and the planet we all share.

My Early Science Discoveries

The childhood curiosity that started the journey.

By almost any definition, I was a pretty perfect science nerd—and I fit the description to a tee. Growing up, while many of the kids around me were collecting and reading Sports Illustrated—although I have to admit I always appreciated the swimsuit issue—I was eagerly waiting for my next issue of Science News, the publication that had originally been known as Science News Letter. I looked forward to it every week.

Science wasn't just something I read about. It shaped the way I thought about the world. Even as a kid, I often felt that my mind worked differently from those of many of the other kids in my neighborhood. At one point I even wondered whether I might have been visited by space aliens, because I sometimes felt as though I knew things—or imagined possibilities—that no one around me seemed to be thinking about.

Whether that was childhood imagination, an unusually curious mind, or simply the influence of all the science and science fiction I was absorbing, I was constantly trying to create explanations for things. By the time I was about thirteen years old, around 1970, I had already developed two projects of my own: The Logical Alphabet and Gerard's Möbius Time Strip Continuum Theory.

Why “Gerard”? At thirteen, I simply thought Gerard sounded cooler than Jerry.

Looking back, I don't think the important part is whether the ideas of a thirteen-year-old were scientifically correct. What matters to me is that I was already trying to invent systems, challenge assumptions, and find my own way of explaining language, time, space, and reality. That instinct—to ask “Could there be another way to understand this?”—has stayed with me ever since.

Project One

The Logical Alphabet

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Project Two

Gerard's Möbius Time Strip Continuum Theory

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This section is ready for your explanation of the theory—what you imagined about time, the Möbius strip, and the continuum when you were about thirteen.

Gifted Students Program & Science at School

Learning in an environment that encouraged deeper exploration.

This chapter will tell the story of your time in the Gifted Students Program and the role science played in school — what challenged you, what opened doors, and what stayed with you afterward.

Gifted Students ProgramSchool scienceTeachersLearning differently

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Your personal account can be added here when we work through the school years together.

The Radio Shack Years

A major technology chapter told in three parts.

Radio Shack deserves more than a passing mention, so this chapter is already divided into three parts. That gives us room to show how your experience evolved instead of compressing an important period into a few paragraphs.

Part One

The Beginning

The first Radio Shack chapter — how you arrived there and what the technology world looked like at the time.

Part Two

Growing With Technology

The people, products, computers, responsibilities, and experiences that expanded what you knew.

Part Three

What Came Next

How those years influenced the next turn in your technology journey and the ideas you carried forward.

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As you tell me the Radio Shack story, we can give each part its real title, dates, photographs, and details.

Autosoft — Almost Microsoft

My technology time in Hawai'i.

This chapter will focus on Autosoft and your technology years in Hawai'i — an important intersection of computers, ambition, experimentation, and a place that became a major part of your life.

AutosoftHawai'iEarly computer business“Almost Microsoft”

A strong title with a story behind it.

We can build this section around what Autosoft was, what you were trying to create, why “Almost Microsoft” fits, and what happened next.

Cape Cod Community College

My computer experience at the college.

This chapter brings the technology story into your years at Cape Cod Community College — the computer systems, programming, problem-solving, reports, and practical work that became part of everyday life.

ProgrammingCollege systemsProblem-solvingReal-world computing

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We can add the technologies, systems, projects, lessons, and changes you witnessed over the years at the college.

Little Projects Along the Way

The side projects, experiments, websites, and ideas that kept appearing.

Not everything fits neatly into a job title. This chapter is a home for the smaller projects and experiments that appeared along the way — the things you built because you were curious, saw a need, or simply wanted to see whether an idea could work.

ExperimentsWebsitesSide projectsIdeas worth trying

A flexible project shelf.

We can add individual mini-cards here later, one for each project, with images and links where appropriate.

Exploring Artificial Intelligence

What fascinates me, what I am building, and what I am asking today.

This is the living chapter — your exploration of artificial intelligence and the many things that interest you today. It can grow with the work: AI, robotics, creativity, knowledge, websites, human possibility, and the question of how emerging technology can serve people rather than diminish them.

Artificial intelligenceRoboticsHuman potentialKnowledgeCreative collaborationThe future

This chapter is intentionally open-ended.

Unlike the earlier chapters, this one can keep changing as your AI work, experiments, questions, and ideas evolve.

Still learning

The Story Is Still Being Written

One of the things I have always loved about science and technology is that there is always another question to ask, another tool to understand, and another possibility waiting just beyond what we know today.

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