I’m Sanjay Khanna, a 44-year-old writer.

I devote a good deal of time and energy to considering how accelerating change may affect human welfare in areas as diverse as business strategy, economic and governmental policy, capital flows, technology innovation, community interaction and environmental sustainability.

I enjoy simple food made with seasonal ingredients. To me, local is a beautiful idea, filled with possibility.

Yet I am enamored by tech wizardry, the BlackBerry, Nokia N-Series, iPod and iPhone-all made possible by globalization, outsourcing and intense, sometimes innovative, resource exploitation.

Ah, sweet paradox.

I live in Vancouver, Canada, with my fiancée, who is a novelist, and my college-going son.

If you aren’t up on Vancouver, it is a city with green spaces and eco-sensitive community experiments and also its own fair share of rampant growth and human misery especially in the Downtown Eastside, where hard drug addiction is a disturbing, and at times mind-numbing, fact of daily life.In the Worldwide 2007 Quality of Living Survey by Mercer Human Resources Consulting, Vancouver ranked third in quality of life, tied with Vienna, but behind both Zurich and Geneva, which ranked numbers one and two, respectively.

I studied at the University of British Columbia, also in Vancouver, and in 1992 was awarded a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing.

Soon afterwards, I began to freelance.

Since the mid-1990s, my freelance writing career has led to places such as the Palo Alto Research Center, formerly known as Xerox PARC, where I met with scientists such as Ranjit Makkuni and collaborated briefly with Howard Rheingold, author of prescient bestsellers, including The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier and Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution.

I have written for Silicon Valley business communicators such as Hewlett-Packard’s Jay Coleman, the former editor of HP’s Measure and Invent employee magazines, and have presented provocative, future-oriented papers on play and robotics to Nokia Ventures Organization and Yamaha Motor Corp., USA, respectively.

I have freelanced too for global consultancies covering topics including radio-frequency identification (aka RFID or “arphids”), ubiquitous computing (aka pervasive computing or everyware), enterprise software and mobile technologies.

Clients remark that I have “a gift of synthesis” and I’ve been a participant in post-September-11 scenario-planning training with senior strategists from oil majors, financial institutions, manufacturers and U.S. government agencies.

Venues I have contributed to include The Huffington Post, Reuters, Worldchanging, Communication Arts, Hemispheres, and 21C, the now defunct (but once very cool) Australian magazine of culture, technology and science. Between 2005 and 2006, I was on the advisory board of the International Centre for Creativity, Innovation and Sustainability in Hornbaek, Denmark.

Disclaimer: The opinions expressed on this blog are solely my own and do not represent the views of my clients, past or present, or those of the periodicals, online or off line, in which my writing has been published.

Contact Me

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