The First Causes

This compilation of science fiction stories all involve in some way First Causes. Everything has a starting point or first cause and I hope to show what might happen in our future. I have read all the great science fiction authors of the 50's and 60's and what was in their time pure science fiction has now become everyday fact. What was at first pure fiction has now evolved into fact. Changes are coming faster and faster as can be shown in the case of computer technology. In the 60's TV series Star Trek the concept of a keyboard and mouse did not exist so the actors talked to the ships computer to introduce their commands. Now the new computer programs will respond to verbal commands just as they did in Star Trek. The future is just ahead, let us go meet it.

I was born in Ogden Utah and raised in southern Oregon. All my relatives are Mormon but I was not raised in the faith. I went through high school and then joined the Navy in 1957. I served four years aboard the air craft carrier Midway as a electronics specialist responsible for maintaining the radar which targeted the 5 inch guns. After I was discharged I went to Salt Lake City, Utah and studied Aquatic Entomology and water pollution Ecology at the University of Utah and was Married. After my BS I was hired by the Department Interior to help study the waters of the Eastern coast aboard the research vessel Clean Waters to determine the level of pollution of our coastal waters. I was based two years near Newark NJ. I returned to the University of Utah and obtained my MS in Aquatic Entomology and Microbiology. I joined FDA in 1970 and was based in Denver CO as a Microbiologist and specialized in the analysis of antibiotics. I was in charge of all 50 states for the analysis and detection of antibiotics in animal foods and feeds. I Retired in 1996. My home is currently in Aurora Co with my wife of 49 years.