Background
Chris Hables Gray was born on August 23, 1953, in Bishop, California, United States. He was a son of George Edward and Edna Benita (Hables) Gray.
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Gray graduated from Stanford University as a Bachelor of Arts in 1975.
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Gray graduated from the University of California (Santa Cruz) as a Doctor of Philosophy in 1991.
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Computers are at the heart of war as we know it and this visionary overview of cyber war in the twenty-first century studies how electronics have changed the way we fight. Using informatics and chaos theory, this is a disarming, yet enthralling read.
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Chris Hables Gray was born on August 23, 1953, in Bishop, California, United States. He was a son of George Edward and Edna Benita (Hables) Gray.
Chris Hables Gray earned his Bachelor’s of Arts degree with the Interdepartmental Major “Human Values and Social Change” from Stanford University in 1975. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy in History of Consciousness at the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1991 with the dissertation “Computers as Weapons and Metaphors: The U.S. Military 1940–1990 and Postmodern War”.
Gray formerly worked as a security guard, mover, painter, legal clerk, woodworker, secretary, child-care aide, gardener, cook, mechanic, saw-mill hand, insulator, and carpenter.
Chris Hables Gray’s books inhabit the space where scientific and cultural writings overlap.
(Computers are at the heart of war as we know it and this ...)
Gray is antiauthoritarian.
Gray is a self-described “anarchist, feminist, post-modernist."
Quotations:
"Culture is not different from nature. Human culture is natural. It is evolved, as much as the behavior of mockingbirds or ants. All of life is evolved. The natural/biological vs. cultural distinction is not only wrong, it is dangerous. [On the same token], humans are not rational."
"Education is crucial. The two main things are education - how people learn - and access to information. The Internet must be kept open, so that it is possible for everyone to post information, so that it cannot turn totally into a market place."
Gray is frequently referred to as a “guru of cyborg theory”, which makes him sound kind of nerdy and remote - lost in cyberspace somewhere with a bunch of other academic theorists. But he is firm of this world and his appreciation for grassroots organizing, combined with an acute analysis of militarism, and an ability to discuss the relationship humans have with machines, combine to make this a gripping and, intellectually and politically challenging.
Gray's particular interest is how information technologies shape contemporary war and peacemaking and the politics of our ongoing cyborgization. Gray considers himself a biophile.
Gray married Jane Lovett Wilson on March 3, 1986. They had two sons Corey Alexander Grayson, Zackary Hables Grayson.