Summary
Chair, onAir Networks
Curation Director, Democracy onAir
Interests: Knowledge Networks, Catalyzing Innovation, Tech Entrepreneurship, Healthy and Sustainable Communities
Pioneer in identifying, developing, and applying new information and communication technologies:
- The first consumer applications of the microprocessor (4bit & LSIs) … for the toy and game industry and for education
- The first internet cafe with online news, games, and computer conferencing
- The first prototype smartphone working with the developers of the Amiga computer, the first graphical computer
My current focus has been on developing the onAir Knowledge Network System, a knowledge sharing software platform with many unique features such as enabling authors to own and share their content across multiple public and custom Hubs.
Our first alpha network is the US onAir network of 50 state hubs and national hub at us.onair.cc. The nonpartisan nonprofit Democracy onAir will be overseeing the launch of the US onAir Network.
OnAir Post: Scott Joy
News
Thriving for Everyone, – November 14, 2024
How democracy ….
About 170 billion cells are in the brain, and as they go about their regular tasks, they produce waste — a lot of it. To stay healthy, the brain needs to wash away all that debris. But how exactly it does this has remained a mystery.
Now, two teams of scientists have published three papers that offer a detailed description of the brain’s waste-removal system. Their insights could help researchers better understand, treat and perhaps prevent a broad range of brain disorders.
The papers, all published in the journal Nature, suggest that during sleep, slow electrical waves push the fluid around cells from deep in the brain to its surface. There, a sophisticated interface allows the waste products in that fluid to be absorbed into the bloodstream, which takes them to the liver and kidneys to be removed from the body.
About
As a partner in one of the first futurist consulting firms, Joy explored commercial spin-off applications of NASA technology for Rockwell (1975-1976). Based on these studies, Joy assembled a team of engineers and marketers as Scienco (Scientific Entertainment Company) and successfully designed and developed, for the game and toy industry, some of the original consumer applications of the microprocessor (1976-1982). He has led the design and development of the first microprocessor-based computer for children (Smart Alec, 1978) and the the first Internet Cafe (The Planet, 1980).
In 1990, Joy founded TelePad corporation. At TelePad, Joy led the design and development of the first multi-purpose, pen-based handheld and tablet-size computer and communications devices. Vertical applications included use in hospitals and nursing homes. As Chairman and majority shareholder and CTO, he took TelePad public in 1994 raising over 25 million in the first year.
As founder and president of Roku Technologies (1996-2001), Joy pioneered the wireless connection of mobile devices to PCs, servers, and the Internet via peer to peer software.
Contact
Email: OnAir
