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James Cooke Brown
James Cooke Brown (July 21, 1921 - February 13, 2000) was a sociologist and science fiction author. He is noted for creating the artificial language Loglan and for designing the Parker Brothers board game Careers. He passed away in a hospital in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, halfway through a cruise round South America. 1. He designed the game Careers, and a re-design, expanding the three original goals of Fame,…
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Happiness and Money by adding Wisdom, Power and one that I forget. For instance, the richest source of Wisdom is "The Mountain-Top of the Hermit", and the richest source of power is the NORAD command center (if you push the button to launch the missiles). The re-design was never published, but I had a chance to play a prototype in the mid-1970's. 2. He published a Utopia novel (thinly disguised as science fiction) entitled The Troika Incident. It influenced my political and economic ideas. 3. He invented the synthetic language "Loglan". It's a fascinating language; read about it on the web (search for both "Loglan" and "Lojban"—there was a schism). I think that is a "golden triad": Wisdom, Power and... Money.
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Careers
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