Alan Brook is the founder of the Humem State Foundation and the author of the book, "The Humem State: The Emergence and Establishment of Our Extended Presence." He has spent a large part of his career developing communications systems in both startups and major tech companies. He has dedicated the last few years to developing a fundamentally new approach to the future of individuals' digital extended presences. The Humem State Foundation is a US based nonprofit organization that will function as the early Humem State (the proto-state described in his book).He holds degrees in physics and mathematics and lives in Silicon Valley, California.