Tom Mandel (futurist)

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Tom Mandel (1946-April 6, 1995) was born in Chicago, Illinois He served in the United States Marine Corps in the Vietnam War. In 1972, he was the first graduate of the futures program at the University of Hawaii. He then attended San Jose State College. He was then hired as a futurist by the Stanford Research Institute, ("SRI").

In addition to his work at SRI, Mandel was an editor of Time Online and an early active participant in The Well, an influential online community. His experiences in that community became the basis for Katie Hafner's book, The Well: A Story of Love, Death & Real Life in the Seminal Online Community:(2001) Carroll & Graf Publishers ISBN 0-7867-0846-8 : expanded from a Wired Magazine article.

On March 25, 1995, Tom Mandel posted on The Well that he was dying. He died eleven days later on April 6, 1995 at Stanford University Hospital, listening to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with his wife Nana. He was 49-years-old.