Eric Sommer is a social science theorist and international journalist writing on social, political, and information technology subjects in world media. He is also a former organizer of workers and poor people; former university teacher, and website, software and artificial intelligence app developer. Eric Sommer has lived in Asia for the past 20 years with 17 years in China, two in South Korea, and a year-and-a-half in Thailand. He is also the former conceptualiser and designer of the personal knowledge management program ADM: The Knowledge Management Desktop. Eric Sommer is currently working extensively with artificial Intelligence (AI).