Christopher Locke is a widely read blogger, author and the editor of the Entropy Gradient Reversals e-newsletter since 1995. Starting in 2005, he has been writing the Mystic Bourgeoisie blog. Named in a 2001 Financial Times Group survey as one of the "top 50 business thinkers in the world," Christopher Locke is co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual, and author of Gonzo Marketing: Winning Through Worst Practices and The Bombast Transcripts: Rants and Screeds of RageBoy. He has worked at the Japanese government's Fifth generation computer project, at Ricoh, at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, at MCI, at IBM, and as a consultant/blogger for HighBeam Research. Locke has written for Wired, Release 1.0, The Industry Standard, Harvard Business Review and many other publications. His work has been covered by Fast Company, Advertising Age, Business Week, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fortune, The Economist, and The Financial Times. [More at Wikipedia]

November 12th, 1947 in Laconia (Age 77)