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Wayne Caswell, Founding Editor

Retired IBM technologist, futurist, market strategist, consumer advocate, and founder of Modern Health Talk (mhealthtalk.com).

After 30 years at IBM, I established CAZITech Consulting, held leadership roles in industry groups developing Wireless and Home Gateway standards, served on the FCC Consumer Advisory Committee, successfully lobbied the Texas legislature to protect the rights of municipalities to install public Wi-Fi networks, and co-founded a nonprofit homeowner advocacy to enact new consumer protection laws and abolish an abusive state agency. After that is when I founded Modern Health Talk. Here’s why.

I am a long-time advocate for BIG Broadband and fiber-to-the-home. That’s because of the important role broad adoption of high-speed Internet service has in telemedicine, telework, distance learning, e-commerce, and e-government. I now spend my mornings following innovations and trends that address the rising costs of medical care as our population ages, and the politics preventing wide adoption. I then respond in mainstream media with my unique perspective if appropriate, also writing the Modern Health Talk blog. Before moving from Austin to Dallas with my wife, Yvonne, I also served as a self-proclaimed sleep economist at Intelligent Sleep (now replaced by Body Logic Experience). There, I worked to expand the concept of Population Sleep Wellness, all because of the vital role sleep plays in our nation’s health, safety and performance.

My Politics — I consider myself independent and tend to look at the nation’s spending as investing, and taxing as the way to fund those investments. The trick is determining who economic policy serves: the wealthy or workers. That’s why, even with a career in the most conservative of corporate America, I have become more Progressive, even siding with labor unions. That world view influences my writing here at Modern Health Talk, where I see healthcare as a human right and am very critical of our current “sick care” system that mostly serves the profit objectives of the medical industrial complex.

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