Fred D'Ignazio

Who is this?

Fred D'Ignazio (born January 6, 1949) is an American author, educator, and television commentator. He was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania and is considered to be one of the world's leading pioneers in multimedia-based education. From 1972 to 1976, he was an assistant editor for The Futurist magazine published by the World Future Society. In the 1980s and 1990s he was an associate editor and columnist for COMPUTE! and COMPUTE!'s Gazette and a technology commentator on ABC's Good Morning America. He is also the author of over 30 non-fiction books on science and technology, as well as a series of juvenile science fiction novels. D'Ignazio received an M.A. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 1971, and pursued further studies at the American University's Washington College of Law. He is married and has three children, whose experiences with home computers he sometimes wrote about in his magazine columns.

Career

1. 1949
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Trivia

• •Place of birth: Bryn Mawr
• •Citizenship: United States
• •Known as: writer, science fiction writer, novelist