Alan Brook has spent most of his career developing digital communications systems in both startups and major tech companies. He has dedicated the last few years to developing a fundamentally new approach to the future of individuals' digital extended presences. The book "The Humem State" is part of this ongoing endeavor.

Brook is the founder of the recently established "Humem State Foundation", a US based nonprofit organization that will function as the early Humem State (the proto-humem-state described in the book).

He holds degrees in physics and mathematics and lives in Silicon Valley, California.
In his spare time he is an avid runner and sea kayaker.