Kenneth J Hamer-Hodges was born in the Royal Naval sea port of Portsmouth, England in 1945, where he grew up. After graduation he worked on the design of the first commercial Capability-Based Computer, the PP250, a fault-tolerant multiprocessor with trusted software. He is now an American citizens living in South Florida.

Throughout his career he taught colleagues about his experience with object-oriented machine code and the functional Church-Instructions of a Church-Turing Machine. His first book, “Civilizing Cyberspace: The Fight for Digital Democracy,” explains how democracy must evolve if citizens are to remain in charge of government in the 21st Century global village.