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'Dr. James Cooke Brown' (July 21, 1921 – February 13, 2000) was a sociologist and science fiction author. He created the artificial language Loglan, and designed the Parker Brothers board game ''Careers''. His novel ''The Troika Incident'' (Doubleday, 1970) describes a world-wide free knowledge base similar to the Internet. The novel begins with the belief that the world is on the eve of self-destruction but then presents a world about a century from now which is a paradise of peace and prosperity, all based on ideas, movements, and knowledge presently available in the world. In its metafictional structure the novel is a call for social change, not through revolution but through free education and the resilience of human ingenuity.
Among his other achievements, Brown designed, and had built, a three-hulled sailboat- a trimaran, and sailed to many parts of the world in it.