Jim Karpen

History

Bio: Jim Karpen, Ph.D., is a college professor and Internet devotee. He has been interested in the revolutionary consequences of computer technology ever since writing his Ph.D. dissertation in 1984. It was a study of the "digitized word" and anticipated some of the changes that are taking place today. He has been writing regularly about the Internet since 1994. His Web site, www.jimkarpen.com, contains selected Internet columns written monthly for the Iowa Source magazine and weekly for ten newspapers in eastern Iowa.