He's also an amateur futurist and a transhumanist who was active in the Extropian community in the late 90s. Donaghe has been social on the Internet since 1990 and met his wife on a telnet bbs before the release of the Mosaic Web browser. Over the course of his career, he has written software for interstate electrical power trading, the health insurance industry, and international retail chains and has done consulting work for other industries. In his spare time he thinks about the future of technology and how it will shape humanity.