Lincoln Cannon

Lincoln Cannon (born 1974) is an American technologist and philosopher.
Cannon is best known as a founder of the Mormon Transhumanist Association and for formulation of the New God Argument. He writes and speaks on syncretization of religion, science, spirituality and technology. He is a director and president of the Mormon Transhumanist Association, an advisor to the Lifeboat Foundation, an alumni of the Singularity University FutureMed executive program, and an organizer of the Mormonism Engineering and Transhumanism Spirituality conferences.
Cannon holds a masters degree in business administration (MBA) from the Marriott School at Brigham Young University, and is a professional software engineer, Internet marketer and information technologist. As director of sales and marketing technology at Merit Medical, he implemented innovative web and mobile information system integrations. As a software engineering manager at Symantec, he co-invented a method and apparatus for generating readable unique identifiers. As an undergraduate philosophy student at Brigham Young University, he published a computer-assisted parallel textual comparison of the Book of Mormon to the Bible.
Cannon is the son of Layne Cannon, an original software engineer and vice president of WordPerfect.

Main Menu

See Also

Main Menu