GBN : Our Practice

Inventor and computer scientist; cofounder, Applied Minds and The Long Now Foundation; former Disney fellow and vice president, R&D; founder, Thinking Machines; author, The Pattern in the Stone

Charles House

Authority on innovation and technology-enabled collaboration, communications, and community; chancellor, Cogswell College; former executive director, Media X, Stanford University; former executive at technology startups, Intel and, for 28 years, HP; author, The HP Phenomenon

Jaron Lanier

Composer and musician; computer scientist; visual artist; writer; virtual reality pioneer; lead scientist, The National Tele-immersion Initiative; interdisciplinary scholar-in-residence, UC Berkeley; author, You Are Not a Gadget

David Liddle

Founding partner, US Ventures; cofounder, Interval Research; former computer science professor at Stanford University and chair, Santa Fe Institute board of trustees

John Petersen

President and founder, the Arlington Institute; specialist in national security issues; author, Out of the Blue: Wild Cards and Other Big Future Surprises and The Road to 2015

Paul Saffo

Strategist, forecaster, and essayist on long term technological change; lecturer, Stanford University; member, national and corporate science advisory boards

Peter Schwartz

Pioneering scenario planner and strategist and GBN cofounder; senior vice president, global relations and strategic planning, Salesforce; former head of scenario planning, Royal Dutch Shell and director of the Strategic Environment Center, SRI International; author of five books, including The Art of the Long View; and Inevitable Surprises.

Joseph Traub

Pioneer in complexity research; professor of computer science, Columbia University and the Santa Fe Institute; author, Complexity and Information

Vernor Vinge

Science fiction writer and Hugo winner A Fire Upon the Deep, A Deepness in the Sky and Rainbow’s End;retired professor of mathematics and computer science, San Diego State University

Steven Weber

Political scientist specializing in international and national political economy and security; professor and director, Institute of International Studies, U.C. Berkeley; author, The End of Arrogance: America in the Global Competition of Ideas; The Success of Open Source

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