Bob Doyle is a prolific writer, scientist, director and philosopher with numerous publications across the internet and in print. He was born on June 19, 1936 in Massachusetts and studied Physics at Brown University and astrophysics at Harvard University, where he became a doctor of Philosophy. Doyle was an individual with a wide interest range and had no primary profession. Despite this, he was quite successful in many different areas. His television career includes being the director of David Brinkley's Journal, where he gained some notoriety for using irony in television. The show, which was on-air for only a year (1961-1962), gained Doyle such fame that he went to work as a director for National Geographic right after David Brinkley's Journal.
A year after graduating Harvard as a Philosophy Doctor, Doyle began working as the secretary of the
NASA Astronomy Missions Board. He stayed in the post for three years; remarkable achievements in
NASA include starting the HEAO Program, which gave birth to numerous high-profile observatories in the United States. He coordinated the Skylab Joint Observing Program, a program that was responsible for supporting the web of 250 ground-based observatories across the globe. Doyle was also the Director's Assistant of the observatory in Harvard University.
Besides his work in science, Doyle was also a prolific inventor. Among his works are the first electronic games; for example, Merlin, the Electronic Wizard, which was one of the first electronic games, was developed by Doyle himself. Other notable inventions include innovations in the physics field, as well as web technologies, which Doyle publishes through his companies. He was also a software developer and released several journalism tools for Mac computers in 1984. During the following years, he mainly focused at his philosophy works; however, in the 90s he began working together with his son Derek as a video editor for a technology magazine called NewMedia magazine.
During the dot com bubble, he started working on internet webs, as well as further collaborated with his son Derek to form numerous internet properties. In 1999, he worked together with his son to create SkyBuilders, a company that focuses on management solutions. Two years later in 2001, Doyle was among the first who recognized the potential of internet's international availability, and formed Open Lexicon, a company that focused on making sites multilingual. He has founded numerous collaborative communities and wrote columns and tech
news in magazines such as EContent, Videomaker, etc. He recognizes himself as one of the first internet journalists, and says that
the news will be made exclusively by people, not journalists, as important information will spread like wildfire via the internet.
Bob Doyle is a well-known contemporary philosopher. Doyle describes himself as an "information philosopher"; the philosophy is crucially different from other philosophies, as information philosophy assumes that the basis of philosophy, unlike existentialists of the late 19th century thought, is information, not merely words and logic. By "information" Doyle means anything abstract, be it ideas, words or pictures - anything really, as long as the information remains measurable. Doyle thinks that this approach to philosophy could provide answers to questions about areas that philosophy has yet to cover meaningfully, such as free will, morals and responsibility. Doyle's ground-breaking philosophy relies on the fact that all information can be reduced to quantum mechanics.
