John Wright is a pseudonym or, pen name, chosen to represent simplicity, industrious behavior, individuality and candor. "John" chooses to retain his privacy for the reason that Destiny is controversial. It may place him in the precarious position of author Salmon Rushdie, or that of earlier philosophers, ideologists and scientists who were banished, jailed or killed. Destiny may attract more varied and more powerful enemies than the Islamic Fundamentalists.

John has a liberal arts education and he is a business consultant, an organic chemist and a computer scientist. He is culturally what we call a middle class WASP, except that the "P" is not appropriate in his case beyond the work ethic. John is a "jack of all trades," with active hobbies that include virtually everything except artistic endeavors like painting and sculpture, and, at his present age, rigorous sports activities. Alas, John too has limitations.

John is a lifetime student of Humanity, and he has an unending interest in understanding and promoting human endeavor for progress. He made his decision to write Destiny when the sums of past and contemporary world events, both negative and positive, exhausted his patience and energized him to take concrete steps to help our overall progress. Destiny is his first book on that subject, and it reflects his comprehensive and integrated view of the major areas of human life.

John sweeps with a very wide broom, and he expects many readers to react defensively to one or more Destiny topics, and then to grasp the larger concepts for developing our future. He is, shall we say, a bit of an optimist with a strong inclination towards making sense out of our experiences.

John is happily married and both a proud father and grandfather. He is also independent to a fault, thoroughly engrossed in his life's activities, and a sometimes-harsh critic of himself for his own self-limiting behaviors. He expects no less of you in the pursuit of your happiness.

What he wants is your attention to your potential and your personal effort to realize the best life that you can have, while living by the golden rule. For his part, John plans to devote a significant part of his life to promoting and to realizing Destiny concepts and goals.