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Russell Ackoff Consultant and educator, systems and management sciences; professor emeritus, University of Pennsylvania; author, The Democratic Corporation and Redesigning Society |  | Laurie Anderson (advisory) Performance artist, writer, and musician; creator, Home of the Brave, Stories for the Nerve Bible, and Songs and Stories from Moby Dick | | Brian Arthur Economist and pioneer in complexity sciences, Santa Fe Institute; author, The Economy as an Evolving Complex System | |
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John Perry Barlow Grateful Dead lyricist; cofounder, Electronic Frontier Foundation; Wyoming rancher; fellow, Harvard Law School | | Steve Barnett Anthropologist; president of consumer insights, SmartRevenue; visiting professor, e-commerce, the Wharton School; former strategist with OgilvyOne, Citibank, and Nissan; editor, The Nissan Report | | Mary Catherine Bateson Anthropologist; visiting professor, Harvard University; professor emerita, George Mason University; author, Composing a Life and Full Circles, Overlapping Lives | |
Frank Beal Executive director, Chicago Metropolis 2020; former president, Inland International Inc. | | Susan Blumenthal Physician; U.S. Rear Admiral; former assistant surgeon general and first deputy assistant secretary for women's health; medical adviser to the White House and the U.S. Department of Agriculture; Internet medicine pioneer | | Raimondo Boggia Founder, Boggia Partners, Milan (strategic visioning and global/local brand equity assessment and positioning); former vice president, Fiat Group; author, Time of Uncertainty and Mondovisione | |
Albert Bressand Economist; executive director, Center for Energy, Marine Transportation and Public Policy, Columbia University; former vice president, Global Business Environment, Shell International; founder, Prométhée, Paris; coauthor, In the Company of Visions and Enhanced Transparency: Meeting European Investors Needs | | Larry Brilliant Physician, epidemiologist, technologist, philanthropist; executive director, Google.org; led WHO's successful smallpox eradication efforts in India, Nepal, Burma, Bangladesh, Iran; former professor, international health, University of Michigan; founder, The WELL, Cometa (WiFi); founder, Seva Foundation, combating blindness in developing countries | | John Brockman Literary and software agent; president, Edge Foundation; author/editor, The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution, Digerati: Encounters with the Cyber Elite, The Greatest Inventions of the Past 2000 Years, and Curous Minds, How a Child Becomes a Scientist | |
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Peter Calthorpe Architect and planner of environmentally progressive community development and "new urbanism" design; author, The Regional City: Planning for the End of Sprawl | | William Calvin Neurobiologist, University of Washington; author, Conversations with Neil's Brain, The Cerebral Code, and A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution and Abrupt Climate Change | | Rob Carlson Physicist exploring the future of biology as technology; research scientist, electrical engineering, University of Washington; senior associate, Bio Economic Research Associates | |
Doug Carlston Technology entrepreneur; cofounder, ICPlanet and Broderbund Software; trustee, Santa Fe Institute | | Denise Caruso Executive director, Hybrid Vigor Institute, supporting cross-disciplinary inquiry into science, technology, and social issues; leading technology commentator and entrepreneur; former technology columnist, The New York Times | | Manuel Castells Professor of sociology and planning and chair, Center for Western European Studies, U.C. Berkeley; author, The Rise of the Network Society, The Power of Identity, The Internet Galaxy, and End of Millennium | |
Joseph Chamie Demographer, specializing in South and Western Asia; research director, Center for Migration Studies; former director, United Nations population division; 25 years with the U.N. | | Eric Clemons Professor, operations and information management, Wharton School; director of Wharton's MBA e-commerce major and the Jones Center's research on strategic and competitive information systems, coauthor, The Marine Corps Way | | Sandy Close Journalism pioneer and executive director, Bay Area Institute/Pacific News Service; founder, YO! (Youth Outlook) and New California Media; MacArthur fellow | |
Chip Conley Founder and CEO, Joie de Vivre hospitality company; philanthropist focusing on teens at risk; author , The Rebel Rules: Daring to Be Yourself in Business | | Doug Coupland Novelist, Generation X, Microserfs, All Families Are Psychotic. Contributor, The New York Times, Wired, Time, New Republic. | | | |
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Ged Davis Managing director and head, Centre for Strategic Insight, World Economic Forum; former head of scenarios team, Royal Dutch/Shell; director of UNAIDS's "AIDS in Africa" scenario project | | Arie de Geus Adviser, World Bank, government and financial institutions; visiting fellow, London Business School; former director, Shell International Petroleum; author, The Living Company | | Mia de Kuijper Senior managing director and global head of transactions development, Bear Stearns; formerly vice president, AT&T; head of strategy and M&A, Pepsi Cola International; investment banker, Morgan Stanley and CS First Boston | |
Alain de Vulpian Analyst of sociocultural change in Europe and North America; founder, Groupe Cofremca and Sociovision, Paris | | Leslie Dighton Founder and chair, Corporate Renewal Associates and The Chairman's Club, London, specializing in complex organizational change and management | | K. Eric Drexler (advisory) Nanotechnology pioneer; chief technical advisor, Nanorex; author, Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology and Unbounding the Future, and "Revolutionizing the Future of Technology" | |
Gwynne Dyer Journalist; syndicated columnist on international affairs; military analyst; documentary radio and filmmaker; author, Ignorant Armies, Future Tense, and War (second edition) | | Esther Dyson Publisher and editor, Release 1.0, technology newsletter; venture capitalist, Eastern Europe; author, Release 2.0, technology columnist; former chair, ICANN | | Freeman Dyson Physicist, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University; author, Infinite in All Directions and Disturbing the Universe; recipient, 2000 Templeton Prize for progress in religion | |
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Bo Ekman Founder, Nextwork AB, Stockholm; former CEO, SIFO Management Group and Volvo executive; author, Himmel och helvete ( Heaven and Hell: On Enterprising, Power and Leadership) | | Niles Eldredge Paleontologist, American Museum of Natural History; author, Reinventing Darwin, Dominion, and Rethinking Sex | | Douglas Engelbart Founder, The Bootstrap Institute; inventor and pioneer in personal, interpersonal, and organizational computing | |
Brian Eno Avant-garde artist and musician; producer of U2, David Bowie, and others; author, A Year | | | | |
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Gerard Fairtlough Biochemist and venture capitalist; former CEO, Shell Chemicals UK and Celltech Group; author, Creative Compartments and Getting Things Done | | Betty Sue Flowers Poet; scenario writer; director, the LBJ Presidential Library; former English professor, University of Texas; author/coauthor of eight books, including The Power of Myth, Healing and the Mind, and Presence | | Francis Fukuyama International political economist; professor, Johns Hopkins University; consultant, the Rand Corporation; former deputy director, U.S. Department of State; author, The End of History, Trust, and Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution | |
Robert Fuller Citizen diplomat; former president, Oberlin College and professor, theoretical physics; author, Somebodies and Nobodies: Overcoming the Abuse of Rank | | | | |
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Peter Gabriel (advisory) British rock musician, composer, and world music producer; cofounder, On Demand Distribution (OD2); human rights activist | | John Gage Cofounder and director of the science office, Sun Microsystems | | Joel Garreau Geographic demographer; senior writer, The Washington Post; author, Radical Evolution, Edge City, and The Nine Nations of North America | |
William Gibson Science fiction writer, Neuromancer, Mona Lisa Overdrive, All Tomorrow's Parties, and Pattern Recognition | | Michel Godet Professor, strategic prospective, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris; author, Scenarios and Strategic Management and Creating Futures: Scenario Planning as a Strategic Management Tool | | Brenda Gourley Vice chancellor, Open University, UK; former chancellor, University of Natal, South Africa; founding board member, the Centre for Higher Education Transformation | |
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David Hale Global chief economist, Zürich Group | | Gary Hamel Chairman, Woodside Institute; professor, London Business School; coauthor, Competing for the Future; author, Leading the Revolution | | Charles Hampden-Turner Organizational psychologist, Judge Institute of Management Studies, Cambridge University; cofounder, Trompenaars Hampden-Turner Group; author, The Seven Cultures of Capitalism, Mastering the Infinite Game, and 21 Leaders for the 21st Century | |
David Harris Journalist and political analyst; author, Our War (on Vietnam), The Last Stand (on old-growth forests), Shooting the Moon (on Manuel Noriega), and The Crisis (on Iran) | | Paul Hawken Chair, The Natural Step; cofounder, Metacode, Groxis, and Smith & Hawken; author, Growing a Business and The Ecology of Commerce; coauthor, Natural Capitalism | | Barbara Heinzen Geographer and scenarist specializing in public/private development processes in advanced and developing countries; author, Feeling for Stones | |
J.C. Herz Principal, Joystick Nation, a research and design firm applying principles of game design to products, services, and learning systems; first New York Times video game citic and a technology columnist; author, Surfing on the Internet and Joystick Nation | | Daniel Hillis 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 | | James Hillman (advisory) Jungian analyst; author, Kinds of Power, The Soul's Code, and A Terrible Love of War; founder, Spring Publications; former director of studies, Jung Institute | |
John Holdren Professor, environmental policy, Harvard University; chair, executive committee, Pugwash conferences; author; MacArthur fellow | | Robert Hormats Economist; vice chair, Goldman Sachs International; author, Reforming the International Monetary Systems | | Robert Horn Political scientist and visual communicator, Stanford University; founder, Information Mapping. Inc.; author, Visual Language: Global Communication for the 21st Century | |
Charles House Founder, the Center for Information Technology and Society, U.C. Santa Barbara; former executive with Dialogic and other technology, software, and communications companies, including 28 years with Hewlett Packard | | Jack Huber Consultant, specializing in telecommunications and marketing. Former head of scenario planning, new product development, and integration into strategic and scenario planning at BellSouth, with 35 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. | | Joel Hyatt Entrepreneur; CEO, IndTV; lecturer, Stanford Business School; founder, Hyatt Legal Services and Hyatt Legal Plans; coauthor, The Long Boom | |
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Joe Jaworski (advisory) Cofounder, Generon Consulting and The Global Institute for Responsible Leadership; former head of scenario planning, Royal Dutch/Shell; author, Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership; coauthor, Presence | | Kathryn Johnson Healthcare advocate and educator; president and CEO Health infoSource; former president, The Healthcare Forum | | Shaun Jones Navy commander and physician; advisor on advanced medical science and technologies to the national security community; former program manager, DARPA; assistant professor, National Naval Medical Center | |
William Joy Venture partner, Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byer; cofounder and former chief scientist, Sun Microsystems; software architect and technology futurist; author, Why the Future Doesn't Need Us | | | | |
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Adam Kahane Cofounder, Generon Consulting and The Global Leadership Initiative; facilitator, national scenario projects in South Africa (Mont Fleur), Colombia, Guatemala; former scenarist, Royal Dutch/Shell; author, Solving Tough Problems | | John Kao Serial innovator; founder The Idea Factory; former director, executive innovation programs at Harvard and Stanford; film and theater producer; author, Jamming | | Bruce Katz (advisory) Chair, The WELL, Hooked, and Rosewood Stone Group; founder, The Rockport Shoe Company | |
Kevin Kelly Writer on technology, culture, and change; former executive editor, Wired; author, New Rules for the New Economy and Out of Control: The Rise of Neo-Biological Civilization | | Irene King Economist; former vice president, commodities research, and senior energy economist, JP Morgan | | Art Kleiner Editor-in-chief, Strategy + Business; instructor, New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program; author, The Age of Heretics; coauthor, The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook, Dances with Change, and Schools That Learn | |
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George Lakoff Cognitive linguist; professor of linguistics, U.C. Berkeley; author, Metaphors We Live By, Moral Politics, and Philosophy in the Flesh: How the Embodied Mind Challenges the Western Tradition, and Don't Think of an Elephant | | Jaron Lanier Composer and musician; computer scientist; visual artist; writer; virtual reality pioneer; lead scientist, The National Tele-immersion Initiative; visiting scholar, Columbia University | | Lawrence Lasker Independent film writer/producer; co-producer, Awakenings and Sneakers | |
Jaap Leemhuis Economist and specialist in scenario and strategy development; cofounder, Fairsights; former president, GBN Europe; 25 years in planning and management with Royal Dutch/Shell; musician and former Olympian | | David Liddle Founding partner, US Ventures; cofounder, Interval Research; chair, Santa Fe Institute board of trustees; computer science professor, Stanford University | | Amory Lovins Energy efficiency pioneer; cofounder and CEO of research, Rocky Mountain Institute; director of Hypercar Inc., MacArthur fellow; coauthor, Natural Capitalism and Winning the Oil Endgame | |
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Michael Maccoby Organizational psychologist; president, The Maccoby Group; consultant on leadership and strategy; author, The Gamesman, Why Work?, and The Productive Narcissist; coauthor, Agents of Change | | Thomas Malone Professor, information systems, MIT; director, Center for Coordination Science and the Inventing the Organzations of the 21st Century Initiative; author, The Future of Work | | Lynn Margulis Biologist; professor, University of Massachusetts at Amherst; devisor of the symbiotic theory of cell evolution; coauthor, Five Kingdoms and What Is Life? | |
Nancy Maynard Media consultant; president, Maynard Partners Inc.; former publisher, Oakland Tribune; attorney; journalist; author, Mega Media | | Pamela McCorduck Science and technology writer; author, Machines Who Think and Aaron's Code; coauthor, The Futures of Women | | Jon McIntire (advisory) Artist, entertainment consultant, and screenwriter; former manager, the Grateful Dead | |
Irving Mintzer Economist and environmentalist; editor, Global Change | | Ian Mitroff (advisory) President, Comprehensive Crisis Management, Professor Emeritus and founder, the Center for Crisis Management, University of Southern California; author, Business NOT as Usual, Smart Thinking for Crazy Times, and A Spiritual Audit of Corporate America | | Michael Murphy Cofounder, Esalen Institute; author, The Kingdom of Shivas Irons, Golf in the Kingdom, and The Future of the Body; coauthor, The Life We Are Given | |
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Michael Naylor Management consultant; former president, global operations, Rubbermaid; past director, strategic planning, General Motors | | Edward Newland (advisory)International energy consultant; former head of scenario planning, Royal Dutch/Shell | | | |
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Maureen O'Hara Clinical psychologist; emeritus president, Saybrook Graduate School; educator, writer, and innovator in human and gender relations, organizational and relational psychology, the future of consciousness; video producer, Myths that Maim | | Pierre Omidyar Philanthropist and entrepreneur; chair and CEO, Omidyar Network; chair, eBay | | | |
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Walter Parkes Motion picture producer and writer; former president, Dreamworks SKG and Amblin Entertainment; films include Sweeney Todd, The Kite Runner, Gladiator, Minority Report | | 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 | | Michael Pillsbury Consultant, long-range planning, U.S. Secretary of Defense; former assistant undersecretary of defense and congressional adviser on national security, intelligence, and Asia; author, Chinese Views of Future Warfare | |
Michael Porter (advisory) Professor, Harvard Business School; cofounder, Monitor Consulting; author, Competitive Strategy and The Competitive Advantage of Nations; coauthor, Can Japan Compete? | | | | |
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Rafael Ramírez Fellow, Oxford University; associate professor of management, Groupe HEC, France; author, Designing Interactive Strategy and Prime Movers; coauthor, Agents of Change: Crossing the Post-Industrial Divide | | Nancy Ramsey Writer, futurist, entrepreneur; president, Morning Star Imports; former legislative assistant; coauthor, Nuclear Weapons Decision Making and The Futures of Women | | Howard Rheingold Author, Tools for Thought, The Virtual Community, Smart Mobs; founder, Electric Minds; two-decade track record of foreseeing and interpreting the societal impacts of information and communications technologies | |
Chris Riley Founder, Studio Riley, specializing in brand strategy and communications design; former head of strategic planning at Wieden & Kennedy Worldwide; founding director, the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art | | Richard Rodriguez Author, Brown: The Last Discovery of America, Hunger of Memory, and Days of Obligation; associate editor, Pacific News Service; contributing editor, Harper's; essayist, Jim Lehrer News Hour | | Heather Ross Scholar, Resources for the Future; former member, U.S. National Economic Council; former regional coordinator, BP Europe | |
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Paul Saffo Director, Institute for the Future; specialist in emerging information, communications, and consumer technologies | | Brian Sager Entrepreneur; life sciences venture, technical, and management adviser; biochemist; founder, Nanosolar, a nanotechnology startup; new classical music composer | | Jonathan Sallet Attorney specializing in technology, public policy, and politics, Glover Park Group; former assistant secretary, U.S. Department of Commerce; presidential campaign strategist | |
AnnaLee Saxenian Political scientist specializing in regional economic development and information technology; dean, School of Information Management and Systems and professor, city and regional planning, U.C. Berkeley; author, Regional Advantage and Silicon Valley's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs | | Ed Schein Organizational psychologist and author; professor emeritus and senior lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management; author, Organizational Culture and Leadership | | Orville Schell Dean, Graduate School of Journalism, U.C. Berkeley; China scholar and journalist; author, Discos and Democracy, Mandate of Heaven, and Virtual Tibet | |
Lee Schipper International transport expert who took Shell Foundation's sustainable transport program to the World Resources Institute; jazz musician | | Michael Schrage Writer and consultant on digital innovation and collaboration; fellow, MIT Media Lab; author, Shared Minds and Serious Play | | Russell Schweickart Consultant, satellite technology and space development; Apollo 9 astronaut; cofounder, Association of Space Explorers and the B612 Foundation (addressing astereoids) | |
Clay Shirky Consultant, teacher, and writer on the social, cultural, and economic effects of Internet technologies; adjunct professor, NYU's graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program; former vice president, New York chapter, Electronic Frontier Foundation | | David Sibbet Organizational consultant and information designer; founder, The Grove Consultants, specializing in the design, development, and distribution of tools for collaboration | | Alexander Singer Film and television director ("Star Trek," "Hill Street Blues"); consultant on digital technology in entertainment and media | |
Gary Snyder (advisory) Poet and author, Turtle Island and Mountains and Rivers Without End; professor, U.C. Davis; homesteader; Buddhist ecologist | | Neal Soss Managing director, senior adviser, and chief economist, Credit Suisse First Boston; former vice president, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | | Robert Spinrad Information technology consultant; former vice president, technology strategy, Xerox; former director of Xerox PARC | |
Angela Stent (advisory) Foreign policy professor specializing in Russia and Eastern Europe, Georgetown University; author, Russia and Germany Reborn | | Karen Stephenson Anthropologist; president, NetForm, specializing in research and consulting on human/social networks, innovation, and organizational change; visiting professor of management, Erasmus University | | Bruce Sterling Science fiction writer, The Hacker Crackdown, Holy Fire, and Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next Fifty Years; popular science journalist; catalyst, the Viridian movement; design instructor | |
Nan Stone Historian; partner, Bridgespan, specializing in strategy for nonprofits; writer on management ideas and practices; former director, the Peter Drucker Institute; former editor, Harvard Business Review | | | | |
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Hirotaka Takeuchi Dean of the graduate school of international corporate strategy, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo; visiting professor, Harvard Business School; coauthor, The Knowledge Creating Company and Can Japan Compete? | | Hardin Tibbs Scenarist and pioneer in sustainability and industrial ecology and design; founder, Synthesys Strategic Conuslting, U.K.; former consultant, Global Business Network and Arthur D. Little | | Joseph Traub Pioneer in complexity research; professor of computer science, Columbia University and the Santa Fe Institute; author, Complexity and Information | |
Fons Trompenaars Cofounder, Trompenaars Hampden-Turner Group; consultant of cross-cultural management; coauthor, Building Cross-Cultural Competence and Twenty-One Leaders; author, Did the Pedestrian Die? Insights from the World's Greatest Culture Guru | | Sherry Turkle Computer sociologist, professor, and director, Initiative on Technology and Self, MIT; author, Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet | | Laura Tyson Economist; dean, London Business School and former dean, Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley; former National Economic Adviser to President Clinton and chair, council of economic advisers; author, Who’s Bashing Whom?: Trade Conflict in High Technology Industries | |
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Kees van der Heijden Management professor, Strathclyde University, Glasgow; former head of scenario planning, Royal Dutch/Shell; author, Scenarios: The Art of Strategic Conversation; coauthor, The Sixth Sense | | Herman van Gunsteren Political theorist, Leiden University; pianist; author, The Quest for Control, A Theory of Citizenship, and Stopping | | Vernor Vinge Science fiction writer, A Fire Upon the Deep; retired professor of mathematics and computer science, San Diego State University | |
Heinrich Vogel Specialist on Russian and Eastern European transformation; board member, German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin; retired professor | | | | |
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Peter Warshall Biological anthropologist; consulting ecologist to the UN, African nations, and American Indian tribes; former editor, Whole Earth Review | | Carl Weinberg Principal, Weinberg Associates; specialist in renewable and distributed power systems and research and development; former manager, Pacific Gas & Electric | | Anders Wijkman Member, European Parliament, focusing on sustainable development; Ambassador, Swedish Foreign Ministry; former assistant director, Bureau for Policy and Program Support, United Nations Development Program; former director general, Swedish Red Cross | |
Lawrence Wilkinson Founder, Heminge & Condell, an investment and advisory firm; cofounder and vice chair, Oxygen Media; film and television producer; cofounder and former president, GBN | | Alain Wouters Viability entrepreneur, pioneering the use of integrated, human-centered, systemic approaches to enable viable enterprises and solutions; founder, Whole Systems, Belgium; coauthor, The Millennium Bug | | | |
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Daniel Yergin President, Cambridge Energy Research Associates; author, The Prize; coauthor, Russia 2010 | | | | |
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Michael Zielenziger Former Tokyo-based bureau chief for Knight Ridder; long-time Asia-Pacific foreign correspondent; Pulitzer Prize finalist; author, Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Lost Its Way | | Andrew Zolli Founder, Z+ Partners, a foresight, brand, and design lab; futurist, Popular Science magazine; curator, Pop!Tech conference; former chief marketing officer, Seigel & Gale brand strategists; editor, Catalog of Tomorrow | | John Zysman Professor, political economy, U.C. Berkeley; director, Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE) | |
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