Howard J. Gunn

Howard J. Gunn is a multifaceted individual with a rich digital technology background. He and AI wrote his biography. The accuracy matches a Google search with a little manual intervention for accuracy and humor. Education and Career: Howard grew up in Ohio, near the heart of the Rust Belt. He graduated from Benedictine in 1963, and Cuyahoga Community College with an AA in economics in 1968. He earned a BBA in 1971 and an MBA in Business Administration from Cleveland State University in 1974. Gunn’s professional journey led him to Data Processing and Silicon Valley and job assignments that allowed him to play a pivotal role in the Microprocessor Digital Revolution. Howard held senior and executive positions at high-tech companies (TRW Space Systems, Gandalf Technologies, GTE Automatic Electric, NEC America, DSC, Alcatel NA, and Telehub). He was a member of the Board at GTE, Gandalf, and Alcatel. He played a key Product Line Management role in the digital upgrade of America with first-to-market major carrier products in digital CO switching, data switching, packet switching, and voice/data PBXs. Howard also played important roles in the evolution of digital video streaming, digital radio systems, Synchronous Optical Networking, internet connectivity, and other industrial AI/ML developments (Operator and Business Automation). Author and Political Science: Gunn authored four influential books: “Principles of Traffic and Network Design”: Introduced breakthroughs like ISDN, TCP/IP, VOIP, Ethernet, Cellular, secured gateways, and firewalls to the next generation of IT/IS engineers. “The Basics of IPTV” explored the new concepts of IP streaming video, social networking, and the digital Cloud revolution. Gunn’s last work, “The 21st Century Voter Guide to Candidate Assessment,” delves into America’s political history and offers insights on how the digital revolution affected voters. His newest release, “How to Save the Nation from Old Conservative Lies,” focuses on the last 50 years of political and cultural regression during the digital revolution. Tax cuts for the rich, a massive federal debt, MAGA, and the “Starve the Beast” dystopian governance program reflect the regression theme of the period. Liberal Utopia vs. Conservative Dystopia Governance Models Gunn’s work, blogs, and books discuss the clash between the liberal utopia constitutional governance concepts for the people written into the Constitution by “We the People.” These views contrast with the conservative dystopia plan for the rich to exploit the working class, immigrants, disabled, unemployed, retirees, and destitute. In the twentieth century, liberals, regardless of political party, contributed to developing the utopian consumer-driven middle-class society. Conservatives embraced the Robber Baron - Gilded Era, segregation and focused on stopping progress. Conservatives also diverged on living wages, social security, civil rights, education, desegregation, and healthcare while focusing on tax cuts for the rich. Whether shaping technology, authoring books, automating processes, or analyzing political landscapes, Howard’s journey and insights are captivating! Biography Howard J. Gunn (1945) was the third son born to his GI Generation (1880-1920) parents. The GI Generation significantly affected America. They had survived the Robber Barons, the Industrialists, the Gilded Era, Union Busting, Segregation, and the Great Depression, and said never again. Their New Deal would change America’s thinking about labor, poverty, exploitation, and helping people become consumers. Their kids joined them to develop a new middle-class utopia model. The notion of the wealthy class and universal poverty was under attack. A new working-class consumer-driven economic model blossomed. Social security, worker protection, living wages, unemployment compensation, public education, new infrastructure construction, regulations, healthcare, and the new middle-class consumer ideas thrived. A new middle class in America began replacing the poverty-class dystopian model of conservative plutocracy. New reforms of Wall Street, desegregation, and government-led progress in public infrastructure, educating returning soldiers after the war, and building a new consumer-driven utopia model highway system for the people were aggressive steps. Teddy Roosevelt’s Square Deal plan to control corporations, protect consumers, and conservation had started the process. Trust-busting and cleaning up the nation began with the Food and Drug administrations in 1906. The one-term turnout of President William Taft (1909-1913), along with the establishment of the Federal Reserve and a new Federal Income Tax on the rich, in 1913 were other signs of the conflicted political times between Dystopia and Utopia in America. In 1917, Congress and the GI Generation ended the feudal state appointment of Federal Senators. Congress replaced the state feudalism controls with popular voting for senators. States approved the amendment. After helping secure the First World War victory (1918) against the global plutocrats, Congress introduced the US to our unique new form of democracy. The Women’s Right to Vote law in 1920 set off the roaring Twenties that would eventually create the new consumer-driven Utopia model for the people. Conservative Plutocrats, though, had captured the 1920 federal elections. Their Tea Pot Dome scandal, conservatism, and tax cuts for the rich produced the Great Depression by 1928. A new “democracy-led” Republic dumped the conservative governance model again in 1932, with the adoption of the New Deal. This democratic step into the New Deal “for the people” became a consumer-driven new utopian model. Congress would transform a nation from a poverty-stricken middling country to the new Utopian world leader democracy model nation. The Greatest Generation of voters began extending their contribution to the quality of life of the people at the end of World War 2. They had defeated the Plutocrat government models in Germany, Italy, Spain, and Japan. They adopted the GI Bill of Rights and the public education of children. With the Marshall Plan and desegregation, they also helped rebuild the world into a new image of quality of life. Work History While in college, Howard worked for the Ohio Bell Telephone Company. He started as a telephone supply man chasing parts and became a cable splicer. Howard also served as a Network Engineer, a Payroll Supervisor, and the Continue Property Record supervisor with a focus on the new Information Technology computers and software digitizing America. In 1976, Howard headed to Silicon Valley to join the Microprocessor Digital Revolution. While breakthroughs were coming from new digital technologies, the Great Society was under attack and fractured. The Agnew/Nixon ticket had reopened the culture war, and the dystopian conservative model resurfaced. A new accumulation of wealth by the wealthy model and political governance conflict era became frightening. The Republican President and Vice President were both thrown out of office by 1973. Our country followed this shock with new economic and political turmoil. Reduced Federal spending, a tax cut for the rich, an oil embargo, runaway inflation, and the fall of Iran in 1979 played out. Another tax cut for the rich (1981), and union-busting against the people (1982) started the new dystopian phase-in period. Our creation of junk bonds for the banks (1984) and the hedge funds for the Robber Barons (1987) produced the outsourcing and offshoring of jobs. Our new Plutocracy dystopian model of government was moving. I was writing my first book about ISDN, the Internet, PCs, and making modems go as fast as a thing we call ethernet. Unlike the traditional military-enabled plutocracies, the new democracy-enabled dystopia model relied more on gerrymandering, marketing, misinformation, propaganda, and gaslighting versus force. They also incorporated a new Pavlovian behavioral training model into the upgraded Wall Street Robber Barron process. Political leaders trained voters to embrace inequality and tax cuts for the rich. The “accumulation of wealth by the wealthy” model was voter-supported. NAFTA was signed in 1993 and Clinton eulogized the end of the Big Government in 1996. Generation X (1961-1985) joined with the Baby Boomers at the start of the 21st Century (2001) to produce the financially reckless wealth accumulation by the wealthy era. Tax cuts for the rich, and financial market collapse produced in the Great Recession in 2007. Another tax cut occurred in 2017, and the 2020 recession struck. By 2021, the US had fallen to the 20th highest standard of living and quality of life. Many Baby Boomers and Gen Xers recognize the middle-class decline. Many now realize it is also not in the best interest of their children, who live in the struggling new 21st-century economy. Conclusion Whether it was the gaslighting, false flags, and advertising campaigns, or the classical conditioning (Pavlovian brainwashing) does not matter in 2024. The past produced the present. Likewise, we are here in the present, producing the future. Whether the twenty-twenties end up in another Great Depression, as our ancestors did one hundred years ago, is up to you. Ending the “for the accumulation of wealth by the wealthy” governance model, given to you by your parents and grandparents, will not be easy. Hopefully, the insights will give you the information you need to save the nation from the conservative dystopian movement. Enjoy.