Education
Sala graduated as a physics candidate in 1976 at the Delft University of Technology. He graduated in economics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam.
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He worked for Philips, but in 1982 he was fired, after which he received a discharge bonus of 100.000 guilders. He used the money to found the media company Sala Communications. With his own company Sala began the publication of various computer magazines in the early years of the personal computer, amongst others Commodore-Info and Dealer-Information
He also wrote various books and organized computer fairs such as Commodore-Info, the Personal Computer Dumpdag and the Personal Computer Infodag.
In 1987 Sala began the computer shop Bachelor of Civil Engineering, originally as a trade point for second-hand hardware. In the 1990s Bachelor of Civil Engineering became a chain store for Personal Computer"s and hardware.
He was in contact with amongst others Timothy Leary, Terence McKenna, Jaron Lanier and John Perry Barlow. These initiatives failed to gain substantional support.
Leading up to the year 2000 Sala repeatedly warned about the millennium bug and its possible consequences.
Since 2003 he is active as a columnist for a free Amsterdam newspaper.
Politics
In 1999 Sala entered politics, taking part in the European Parliament elections with his Lijst Sala, struggling against corruption. He was campaign leader for the party Duurzaam Nederland and third on the candidate list.
