Aza Raskin (born February 1, 1984) is the co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology[1] and of the Earth Species Project.
[6] In the podcast Your Undivided Attention, along with Tristan Harris, Raskin has talked extensively about the power of information technology and the dangers it potentially poses to modern society.
[18] In 2005, after his father's death, he founded Humanized, where he continued working on the Archy paradigm and created the language-based, service-oriented Enso software.
He also has a number of smaller projects, such as Algorithm Ink (based on Context Free),[24] which generates art from a formal grammar.
[29][17] He has worked on several labs projects, including Ubiquity[30] and Firefox for mobile,[31] and he wrote the original specification for the geolocation application programming interface (API).
[35] Raskin has founded two other companies besides Humanized, including Songza, a music meta-search tool, and Bloxes, which sold furniture made out of cardboard.
[38][39] By the end of 2010, Raskin had left Mozilla[40] to co-launch a start-up company called Massive Health.
[43] On April 16, 2012, Massive Health announced that Raskin would lead the company as its “chief vision officer”.
[6] He has given talks on this topic for Wired magazine,[55] The Wall Street Journal,[56] Bits & Pretzels,[57] Slush,[58] Humanity 2.0,[59] and Laurie Segall.