PJ Manney | |
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 Manney at the New York Comic Con | |
| Born | September 29, 1964 Sleepy Hollow, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Author, screenwriter |
| Alma mater | Wesleyan University |
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Patricia J. Manney (born September 29, 1964) is an American writer and speaker on humanist and futurist topics. She is the author of (R)EVOLUTION, a near-future techno thriller, which Publishers Weekly called "intriguing" and described it as being written with "poignancy and sensitivity". [1]
Manney started her career in the motion picture publicity office of Walt Disney/Touchstone Pictures. [2] From there she moved into story development, serving as vice president, production and development of Adelson-Baumgarten Productions, who were behind such films as Hook (1991), Universal Soldier (1992), and It Could Happen to You (1994).[ citation needed ]
Credited as Patricia Manney, she wrote for the TV shows Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess . [2]
Manney has been involved for many years in the research and presentation of futurist and humanist topics. She is a former chairperson of Humanity+, helping rebrand the organization, launch H+ Magazine and organize Convergence ’08, the first multi-organization conference on futurist topics. She authored "Why I Believe in Participating in the H+ Future" and "Empathy in the Time of Technology: How Storytelling is the Key to Empathy" (2008), [3] an early academic work on the neuropsychology of empathy and future media.
She is on the Advisory Board of the Lifeboat Foundation [4] and the Board of Directors of The World Transformed. [5]
Manney has presented her ideas to numerous groups including the Producers Guild of America and Directors Guild of America, [6] NASA–JPL, The Humanity+ Summit [7] and the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, and is a frequent guest on podcasts including FastForward Radio [8] and The World Transformed. [9]
She has written for and appeared in numerous online and print publications including The Journal of Evolution and Technology, [10] Sentient Developments, [11] and Popular Mechanics . [12]
Manney is a graduate of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. She lives with her husband and two children in Malibu, California. [2]
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