This is the first in a series of 22 “magazine-style” pieces about the Nomadness boat project that I published between April 2011 and January 2013. These went into much more detail than blog posts, and were available by subscription. As is my custom, I began with an ambitious weekly publishing schedule, then monthly, then… whenever…

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From 1987-1992, I published 12 issues of an on-the-road ‘zine. This began as the Journal of High Treknowledgy, and then grew into the more substantial Journal of High-Tech Nomadness. The absolute pinnacle of this series of publications was Issue #11, produced by Doug Brightwell at his home office in Cupertino… and the magazine itself became…

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By the beginning of 1990, on the heels of the Santa Cruz earthquake and before moving over to the Sun Microsystems lab in Silicon Valley, I was trying to build energy for the upcoming adventure by finding others to form a technomadic community. This went out to my Nomadness mailing list: FROM:  Steven K. Roberts,…

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