Few people have packed as much experience into their lives as Gordon Dryden. He has been an award-winning journalist, editor, publisher, prize-winning radio presenter, pioneer in participatory television, talk-radio station founder, advertising specialist, public relations consultant, sales promotions expert, marketing director, exporter, researcher, author and television producer. He's spent over a quarter of a century studying the future of electronic communications, visiting Silicon Valley several times and researching television potential around the world. He has served on the Board of Directors of the New Zealand Meat Producers Board, Meat and Wool Boards' Economic Service, the American Meat Export Development Company, Vid Com (New Zealand's first specialist video company) and the publishing company he co-founded, New Zealand Trends, a pioneer in electronic technology and target marketing.