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William Abner

Sean Carton is an author, speaker, futurist, and long-time veteran of the e-biz world. Currently, he is Dean at the School of Design and Media at Philadelphia University. Philadelphia University In 1993 Sean co-authored the best-selling Mosiac Quick Tourseries for Ventana Press with Gareth Branwyn, contributing editor of Wired . The Mosaic Quick Tour was one of the first books to focus exclusively on the World Wide Web. In 1995, Sean went on to write the Internet Virtual Worlds Quick Tour, one of the first books about virtual communities.

William Abner earned a B.A. in English Lit from The Ohio State University (1996). In 1997, he formed his own gaming website (gamingnexus.com) and then became the Senior Editor at GamePen. In 1999, he was hired as an associate editor for Computer Games Magazine. He has been involved in the industry as a writer and editor for nearly a decade. Currently, he is a full-time freelance writer for GameSpy, GameShark, and Computer Games Magazine.