Part 2
After my friend Alan introduced me to the general concept of ExoBrain, the brand, and ExoTech, the technology behind it, I was keen to understand more about it. Not only that, but Alan also told me the creator and CEO, Peter Warren, was looking for someone to write a book. This semi-bio would give Peter’s background leading to the development of ExoTech and would outline all the barriers and adventures he’d encountered along the way. Being a professional writer, this piqued my interest. And I’m happy to say I currently have this book in progress. Before starting to write it, though, I realised I had to acquire at least a working knowledge of the computing system itself.
My first task was to watch thirty-one videos recorded by Peter, outlining the basic principles of ExoTech. As a filmmaker I would have preferred to see polished and professionally made videos with all the bells and whistles that modern digital technology can provide. Peter didn’t have the funds to do this and, typical of the man, he set out to make them entirely on his own. The result is surprisingly good, mainly because Peter communicates so well. The bottom line was that I finished viewing all the videos and felt I had achieved at least a working knowledge of how ExoTech stands head and shoulders above any other computing system ever devised.
The main message I derived is that ExoTech communicates in much the same way as a human does. Instead of forcing humans to learn and apply increasingly complicated compu-babble, you can actually talk to your computer. Gone was the earlier system of computing created by techies who excel in convoluted knowledge. Gone were the overly complex programs. And – hallelujah – gone was a computer language that grows more and more remote from human-speak every day.
My next step was to interview Peter. At the time, he was living in Cannes, France; so, taking advantage of one of current computing’s more simple and effective pieces of technology, Skype screen sharing, we managed to record about twenty hours of the fascinating history which lead up to his urgent need to acquire a more effective computing system for the business he was running in the Ukraine. This was effectively the genesis of ExoTech.
But it took a number of years to develop a prototype of the full system that we now know as ExoBrain … and therein lies the tale. I trust that when the book is finished, you’ll find it a fascinating read!
An ExoTech Ltd shareholder, Chris is currently authoring two of the four books to be published the day ExoBrain launches and has helped to create ExoBrain’s introductory video to the Confidential Technical Briefing. Chris has spent his working life in the film and television industry, starting with BBC Television in London, then ATV in Birmingham becoming, at the time, the youngest Studio Manager in Britain.
Later, in South Africa, he wrote and directed film and TV commercials, having four South African entries at the Cannes Advertising Festival. After a number of years of writing and directing or producing documentaries (eight international awards) and corporate videos, he concentrated on writing feature film screenplays (five screened) and television series (seven screened). He has a novel, ”Pursuit of Treachery,” with a literary agent and is currently obtaining finance for an action adventure feature film he has written and is co-producing. He is a published poet and has given many readings.