Ted Stalets was born in Pana, Illinois (USA) in 1952. He received a master’s degree in mass communications from the University of Illinois before spending a corporate career with Baldwin Piano Company. From the time of his first Radio Shack TRS80 computer in the late 1970s, he has developed a deep respect for the evolving computer revolution and, more recently, the internet revolution. An avid futurist, Ted has developed several hundred websites featuring various emerging technologies geared toward the non-technical person. He served as literary agent for the first edition of Rescue Plan for Planet Earth (since rewritten and retitled World Democracy through a Global Referendum). He also developed a portable “voting booth” for the global referendum initiative, allowing the active ballot located on our home page to be multiplied many times over throughout the internet. This initiative has been corrupted and is currently being re-instituted. In 2018, Ted became President of Vote World Parliament. In 2026 he is changing the name to Tokenized World Parliament.. upgrading the voting scheme to blockchain. He now lives in Cascais, Portugal.