Morrie's reason for appearing on network television was as straightforward as the man himself: At age seventy-eight, more fully alive than ever, Morrie was dying -- of a degenerative disease known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig's disease.
Morrie had a consistent worldview, one that had been evolving for most of his life and that he was only now articulating as a whole.
Morrie even thanked asthma, a disease which afflicted him relatively late in life and, he said, taught him how to distance himself from the panic of dying (or seeming to), as he gasped for breath.
In his essay, as well as in his recently published book vote.com, Morris portrays a dramatically improved post-Internet political landscape, which he develops in three predictions.
Third, Morris believes that the general movement of politics from television to the Internet will stimulate an evolution of our system of governance to a more direct form of democracy.
Like Morris, however, I am unable to resist the role of cyberspace seer and throughout this paper speculate on the Internet's likely impact on democratic self-rule in the United States.
Jason Morris has a diverse background working with emerging-growth companies in enterprise and consumer software, as well as with organizations that service the technology industry.
Since joining Schwartz in 1998, he has worked with a number of companies in security, application development, integration and search, in addition to leaders in the legal services and venture capital communities.
Prior to Schwartz, Jason worked at The Weber Group on the Bacardi and TJX accounts, and at Fox Sports New England.
John Heilpern, Gregory Mosher, and Christopher Shinn are among the notables scheduled to participate in Rachel Corrie and the Theatre of Public Opinion, a free discussion of the play and the controversy surrounding it, at Columbia University on April 7.
Still, Morris admits that there are limits to father-son bonding: "At one point, when we were both single [Morris is currently partnered], my father suggested that we buy a place in Queens together.
Making the transition from writer to actor was the fulfillment of a long-held dream for Morris but was not without its challenges.
Ari Schwartz, Congressional Research Service ought to be open to public, The Examiner April 18, 2007
John Morris, "Privacy and VoIP Technology," I/S Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society, Vol.
John Morris, "The Past, Present, and Future of Internet Censorship and Free Speech Advocacy," in "Defending the First: Commentary on First Amendment Issues and Cases," J. Russomanno, editor (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers 2005)
