Brain Terminal, launched in August of 2001, seeks to provide thoughtful analysis of the various political, social, economic and technological trends that affect our daily lives. Although you may not always agree with what you read here, we hope to at least make you think.

One of the things you'll notice first about articles on Brain Terminal is that they contain strong opinions presented unapologetically. We don't strive to be controversial for its own sake, but at the same time, we will not shy away from an argument that needs to be made.

And, unlike the major media, we do not profess to be without political bias. Every article contains a definite bias, because every author looks at the world through his or her own eyes. To claim to be without bias borders on outright fraud, because the only purpose of such a claim is to trick the audience into unwittingly digesting opinions that are packaged as fact.

We believe that consumers of news and opinion must be cognizant of the biases of the various media outlets they use. Regular readers of Brain Terminal will become aware of the biases of the editor, and this is a good thing, because it will make them smarter consumers of the opinions presented here. We don't hide our beliefs, we trumpet them.

Although we won't tell you what to think, we'll be happy to give you plenty of suggestions!

Brain Terminal is edited, maintained and (largely) written by Evan Coyne Maloney, a sometime political operative who also rode the dot-com wave from boom to bust.

Shortly after his tenth birthday, Evan was introduced to his two main passions: politics and technology. He became interested in politics by listening to family dinner discussions, but the political bent of his family--at least on the Maloney side--did not jibe with the philosophy he eventually adopted. At the time, he was old enough to know he loved politics, but too young to know exactly why or what he believed. (That is the excuse he offers for why he worked on Walter Mondale's presidential campaign in 1984, when he handed out flyers along the Manhattan portion of the New York City Marathon route.)

Evan's introduction to conservative philosophy came from listening to talk radio, specifically New York's WABC 770AM. Shortly thereafter, his political epiphany came in junior high school when giving an oral presentation on an important topic of the day. Evan's topic was nuclear weapons, and the propaganda propagated in schools was that President Reagan was going to drive us headlong into nuclear war. Evan started to parrot that party line, but knew viscerally that our weapons protected our country and helped keep the peace. (And, in hindsight, we now know that producing these weapons enabled President Reagan to drive the Soviets--the most murderous empire ever to stain the face of the Earth--into bankruptcy.)

Around the same time, Evan became introduced to computers, which quickly became his other passion. Instead of spending his early adolescence learning how to socialize with his peers, Evan spent it learning how to program computers, much to the detriment of his teenage popularity. After teaching himself how to program Apple II systems, he wrote a program called Foscil DOS, a disk operating system that was marketed through magazines and stores. Evan was twelve years old at the time.

In 1989, Evan worked as a volunteer on Rudy Giuliani's first campaign for mayor of New York City. And in the mid-1990s, Evan worked as the Chief of Staff of a New York State Assembly campaign and as the Campaign Manager of two races for Civil Court Judge.

From 1994 to early 2002, most of Evan's work has been in the technology industry, where he was a software developer for various Internet start-ups. After observing boardroom maneuverings that toppled one CEO, Evan survived a bitter merger and most recently worked for two consecutive companies that went out of business within a year of each other.

Although he misses the food, the parties, and the first-class flights that were the norm during the dot-com boom, he believes that Aeron chairs are overpriced and that any company deploying them to all of their employees probably deserved to go out of business in the first place.

After Evan's most recent employer went belly-up a few months after September 11th, he began working as the Communications Director of a New York State Senate race that gained nationwide attention on 60 Minutes, Nightline, Fox News, CNN and in the pages of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the New York Observer, the New York Sun and the Village Voice.

Following that campaign, Evan abandoned the life of an employee and has been earning a living from freelance jobs as a writer, business consultant, software developer and filmmaker. To make up for the lack of daytime social interaction that comes with working primarily from home, Evan turned Starbucks into his surrogate office.

Evan is a graduate of Bucknell University, where he received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. Since 1979, Evan has called New York City his home.