User:Sbanker

Hello fellow Wikipedia users.

I've been contributing to Wikipedia since 2002 but did not register a Wiki user ID until December of 2006 and did not did not dedicate the time to expand my User Page until now (August 2008).

Born and raised on the U.S. East Coast, I recieved my BBA at the University of Michigan with a concentration in corporate strategy, business IT, and entrepreneurship. Despite my extended absence from academia, I am a life-long learner and take pride in being a contributor to the Wiki cause.

Areas of interest

• Digital Music. I took a class as an an undergraduate, and fell in love with the synthesizer.
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• the emergence of spontaneous order in the social system, particularly as (often unintentionally) occasioned by advances in technology
• economics, especially bottom-up self-organization of humans in a complex adaptive system
• political theory and political science; but NOT politics!
• human innovation
• institutions and institutionalized "rules of the game," informal and formal, that affect the type of social order that may emerge in any particular polity
• the interesting intersection of economics, philosophy and politics. This is a small area well outside the mainstream of each of the three disciplines as they exist today in academia, and is generally understudied and undertheorized.
• psychological effects manifesting in human behavior in the financial markets
• all things energy, especially dynamic change that becomes possible in energy technology and energy markets when relatively free markets and liberal regulatory environments exist. I have a side interest in alternative energy with personal experience in electric vehicle and passive solar building design and construction.
• private space ventures -- competition for the national-monopoly governmental space initiatives of the early decades of the space age
• software, hardware, and embedded system technology development
• software engineering -- the process of mutual and concatenate coordination of human efforts to design and build software that is on-time, on-budget and meets the customer requirement.
• next-generation communication technology that will help facilitate the (currently unknown, and humanly unknowable) order that will emerge in the coming years.
• the emergence of lay medical understanding in complex and rapidly changing medical disciplines. For example, the expansion of knowledge among non-medical professionals, typically parents and friends of affected children, about pleiotropic genetic disorders, both genetic syndromes and genetic diseases.

Pending or current Wikipedia projects

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• Write a new article on ...
• Get ... on the Wikipedia map.

--Sbanker (talk) 20:01, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

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