Adnan Khashoggi is remembered in technology for work that changed what came after it.
The record lists Adnan Khashoggi as Saudi Arabian businessman (1935-2017).
Adnan Khashoggi was born at Mecca in 1935. His recorded nationality is Saudi Arabia. He was educated at Victoria College and California State University, Chico.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
The record gives his occupations as arms trader, businessperson and entrepreneur.
Technical work compounds - each layer makes the next one cheaper to attempt.
Working from Saudi Arabia shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Adnan Khashoggi died in 2017 at the age of 82. The work outlived the arguments around it.
Achievements
- Educated at Victoria College and California State University, Chico
- Worked as arms trader, businessperson and entrepreneur
