Basic Info

• Gender Male
• Birthday 11/?/?
• Current Location Hampstead, North Carolina, USA

Bio

Rob Argento and Peter Corrao conceived FreedomFriends in 2009 when Pete saw Rob's website sillyConValley.net and said, "Hey, why don't we take your work and put a MySpace type front end on it?" Out of that conversation came the idea for FreedomFriends.com, the social network for freedom lovers all around the world.

sillyConValley.net had been born of Rob's reflection on an exhilarating career in Silicon Valley spanning three decades, from 1986 to 2003. He spent most of that time hammering away as a technical communications specialist for Valley heavyweights like Microsoft, Oracle, Xerox and VeriSign, never leaving the fast lane. He saw the erstwhile home to Oracle world headquarters—hilly Belmont, California, also his own home of more than ten years—transform from a sleepy small town to a bustling center of Valley commerce. He saw the Information Age rocket from the desktop to cyberspace, and from millions of computer instructions per second to billions. During that same period he saw Global Communism collapse, the Harmonic Convergence and the Global Market emerge, and the Global War on Terror trump both as Ultimate Concern.

Sometimes as consultant, other times as staff writer Rob researched, developed and edited innumerable technical documents and whitepapers elucidating  "bleeding-edge" technologies ranging from electronic collaboration and human-computer interfaces to exotic e-commerce and bioinformatics. He arrived in the Valley in 1986 an enthusiastic believer in the Information Revolution. But by 2003 the excitement of the Revolution had somehow become trite, a mere fossil. "Marcom" (Marketing Communications) was still shouting Revolution! this and Revolution! that but it had become mostly hype. The Valley had set out to change the world. But by the dawn of the new millennium it was the world that had changed the Valley.

So Rob launched sillyConValley.net to educate the public about the potential dangers of a global military-intelligence-police state run by technocrat elitists, artificial intelligence, and robo-citizens to keep the "insiders" safe from "the terrorists." FreedomFriends now takes the work of sillyConValley.net and extends it into the political, economic, and cultural spheres where "the rubber meets the road."

Join FreedomFriends.com today and help keep the world free from every form of tyranny!

What I Want to Do

Restore verifiable elections, form local barter networks, control immigration, abolish the war powers act, maintain US dollar, maintain privacy, abolish pre-emptive war

Causes

Independence, freedom of assembly, information privacy, personal privacy, technology for the people, healthy eating, right to bear arms, freedom of conscience, truth in advertising, good humor

High School

H. Frank Carey 1967

College

New York Institute of Technology 1976

Graduate School

Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary 1982

Training

Physics, theology, inertial navigation systems, aerospace systems, relational database management systems, information sciences

Special Skills

HP-UX, Oracle RDBMS, molecular biology, APL, Java SE, Fortran, Fox 4 Ford Mustang chassis

Current Favorites

• Books The Dust of Death, The Making of a Counterculture, At the Edge of History, Between Two Ages, The Road Ahead, Brave New World, The Silicon Boys
• Movies Making of the President, Thirteen Days, Ben-Hur, The Matrix, Terminator, iRobot, Three Days of the Condor
• TV Shows none
• Music Eric Clapton, John Mayer, The Beatles, Don Henley, Rolling Stones, Enya, Crosby Still Nash and Young
• Websites freedomfriends.com sillyConValley.net Infowars.com Infowars.net Counterpunch.com Whatreallyhappened.com wired.com
• Quote

  "Music...is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance. It has always found me, and with God's blessing and permission, it always will."

   -- Eric Clapton 2007                    

Activities and Hobbies

Writers meetings, investigative journalism, filmmaking, roadtrips, Fox chassis Mustangs, roadracing, the ocean, barbecue, baseball