Wallace Wood - Founder/CEO/Chairman, National Space & Technology Assoc.Houston, TX

Wallace R. Wood is a native Houstonian and has been a working journalist and author since 1970. He has written extensively on global trends in advancing technologytoward what he calls a world of “diginomics” (digital economics).

His articles have appeared in The Houston Business Journal, and Technology Today, Houston Metropolitan and DBA:Houston magazines. “The world is going global, and it’s doing so electronically,” he has written.

In 1974, Wood wrote his first book, CASHLESS SOCIETY: A WORLD WITHOUT
MONEY, describing a global electronic system in the 21st century. The global Internet, by which such an electronic system would function, did not come into existence until nearly 10 years later.

In 1984, he co-founded the Shuttle News Service, broadcasting around-the-clock coverage of shuttle missions over local college radio stations. In 1987, he served as media director for Space & Telecomm, Inc. and its “Vision ’87 Space Symposium and Exhibition” at the Albert Thomas Convention Center. In this capacity, he also became the bureau chief for the Space & Telecomm News Bureau -- the first private news bureau for the American space program. Under this tenure, he co-edited the book, An Entrepreneur’s Introduction to Space Commerce and Shuttle Experiments, published in1987.

In the wake of the space shuttle Columbia disaster, Wood revived the idea of a news bureau for the space program in 2003, only to expand the concept to include the full spectrum of advancing high technology. With the Space & Technology News Bureau (STN) as the nucleus, the National Space & Technology Association (NSTA) has been founded as an umbrella organization for both the technology industry and the generalpublic.

NSTA’s website (www.nstahouston.org) was launched in August 2004. In August
2007, NSTA’s first interactive website was launched at www.nstaworld.org.

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