James Cooke Brown (July 21, 1921 – February 13, 2000) was an American sociologist and

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. He is notable for creating the artificial language

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and for designing the

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''. Brown's novel ''The Troika Incident'' ( Doubleday, 1970) describes a worldwide free knowledge base similar to the Internet. The novel begins with the belief that the world is on the eve of self-destruction, but then it presents a world about a century from now which is a paradise of peace and prosperity, all based on ideas, movements, and knowledge presently available in the world. In its metafictional structure, the novel is a call for social change, not through revolution but through free education and the resilience of human ingenuity. Long out of print and relatively rare, an e-book version (Amazon Kindle) of the novel was released in 2012. The novel envisioned all books and periodicals being viewed on portable electronic devices called "readers" in the year 2070, when it is set. Among his other achievements, Brown designed, and had built, a three-hulled sailboat, called a

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. He utilized this boat to sail to many parts of the world. While on a South American cruise with his wife, Brown was admitted to a hospital in Argentina, where he died at the age of 78.

Bibliography

Science Fiction

*"The Emissary",

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*''The Love Machine'',

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*''The Troika Incident: A Tetralogue In Two Parts'', Doubleday, 1970

Sociology

*Cooperative group formation: a problem in social engineering, University of Minnesota, 1951Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Minnesota, 1951.
/ref> *The Job Market of the Future: Using Computers to Humanize Economies, James Cooke Brown, M.E. Sharpe, 2001,
Paternity, Jokes and Song : A Possible Evolutionary Scenario for the Origin of Mind and Language
Brown J. C.; Greenhood W., 1983, vol. 8, no2, pp. 7–53 (5 p.), Journal of Social and Biological Structures, ISSN 0748-772X

Loglan

*Loglan 1: a logical language, James Cooke Brown, Loglan Institute, 1975 *Loglan 2: methods of construction, James Cooke Brown, Loglan Institute, University Microfilms, 1981 *Loglan 3: speaking Loglan : programmed textbook on the phonology, basic vocabulary, and grammar of the simple Loglan sentence, James Cooke Brown, Lujoye Fuller Brown, Loglan Institute, University Microfilms, 1965 *Loglan 4: a Loglan-English dictionary, James Cooke Brown, Lujoye Fuller Brown, Loglan Institute, 1970 *Loglan 5: an English-Loglan dictionary, James Cooke Brown, Lujoye Fuller Brown, Loglan Institute, University Microfilms, 1981 *Loglan 4 & 5: a Loglan-English/English-Loglan dictionary, James Cooke Brown, Loglan Institute, 1975

References

;Notes *Anderson, Evelyn. James Cooke Brown: A Multitalented Man. :a) He serves as a combat navigator in the Army Air Forces. :b) He received a doctorate in sociology, mathematical statistics and philosophy from the Univ. of Minnesota in 1952. :c) He published a novella ("The Emissary", under the by-line "Jim Brown") he wrote in Mexico City in "Astounding Science Fiction". :d) Shortly before his death he completed "From Job Markets to Labor Markets" in which he proposed a computer-moderated economic system dividing work among all who seek employment. :e) He was a guardian of civil rights and joined fellow educators in a 1963 protest of a restaurant's 'whites only' policy; the sit-in resulted in his arrest and jail time. :f) He vehemently opposed the Vietnam War. :g) Was one of the writers in the publication: Brown, J.C. and Greenhood, W. (1991). Paternity, jokes and song: A possible evolutionary scenario for the origin of language and mind. Journal of Social and Biological Structures.14(3), 255-309.

External links

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