Philosopher; University Professor, Co-Director, Center for Cognitive
Studies, Tufts University; Author, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a
Natural Phenomenon
>The Evaporation of the Powerful Mystique of Religion
President & CEO, Aspen Institute. Former CEO, CNN, Managing Editor,
TIME; Author, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life.
>Print As a Technology
Psychologist; Author, Social Intelligence
>Transparency is Inevitable
Science Editor, The Economist
>Malthus was wrong
Curator, TED Conference
>Systemic Flaws In the Reported World View
Physicist, Case Western Reserve University; Author, Atom
>Renewal of Science for the Public Good
Senior Consultant (and Former Editor-In-Chief and Publishing Director),
New Scientist
>The Sunlight-Powered Future
Psychologist, Harvard University; Author, Five Minds for the Future
>Early Detection of Learning Disabilities or Difficulties
Psychologist and Biologist, Harvard University: Author, Moral Minds
>The End of ISMs
Psychologist, Harvard University; Author, The Blank Slate
>The Decline of Violence
Social Psychologist, Hope College (Michigan); Author, A Quiet World:
Living with Hearing Loss
>Doubling Hearing Aid Functionality
Publisher of Skeptic magazine, monthly columnist for Scientific American;
Author, Why Darwin Matters
>Science and The Decline of Magic
Writer; Author, Machines That Think
>Understanding What Really Happens To Humans In Groups
Communications Expert; Author, Smart Mobs
>The Tools For Cultural Production and Distribution Are In
the Pockets of 14 Year Olds
Mallinckrodt Research Professor of Physics and Research Professor of
History of Science, Harvard University; Author, Thematic Origins
of Scientific Thought
>The Increasing Coalescence of Scientific Disciplines
Cognitive Scientist, UC, Irvine; Author, Visual Intelligence
>We Will Soon Devise a Scientific Theory for the Perennial
Mind-Body Problem
Journalist, The Guardian; Author, The Darwin Wars
>A Proper Scientific Understanding of Irrationality In General,
and of Religion In Particular
Professor of Astrophysics, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
>The Real Purity of Pure Science
Mathematician; Executive Director, Center for the Study of Language and
Information, Stanford; Author, The Millennium Problems
>We Will Finally Get Mathematics Education Right
Classicist; Cultural Historian; Provost, Georgetown University; Author,
Augustine: A New Biography
>Scientific Discoveries Are Surprisingly Durable
Psychologist, University of Pennsylvania, Author, Authentic Happiness
>The First Coming
Collector, Contemporary African Art; High-Tech Ecological Researcher & Director,
Liquid Jungle Lab, Panama
>Breaking Down the Barriers Between Artists and
the Public
Editor-At-Large, Wired; Author, New Rules for the New Economy
>That We Will Embrace the Reality of Progress
Physicist, former President, Weizmann Institute of Science
>The Evolutionary Ability of Humankind To Do the Right Things
Physicist, Universite' de la Mediterrane' (Marseille, France); Author:
What is time? What is Space?
>The Divide Between Rational Scientific Thinking and the
Rest of Our Culture Is Decreasing
CEO, Biotechonomy; Founding Director, Harvard Business School's Life
Sciences Project; Author, The Untied States of America
>A Knowledge Driven Economy Allows Individuals
to Lead Millions Out of Poverty In a Single Generation
Psychologist; Founder of Gottman Institute; Author (with Julie Gottman),
And Baby Makes Three
>When Men Are Involved In the Care of Their Own
Infants the Cultures Do Not Make War
Researcher of Pirahã Culture; Chair of Languages, Literatures, & Cultures,
Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology, Illinois State University
>Humans Will Learn to Learn From Diversity
Neurobiologist and Psychiatrist, University of California San Francisco;
Author, Better Than Prozac
>Finding Mental Illness Genes
Psychologist and Neuroscientist, University of Maryland; Author, Laughter
>Things Could Always Be Worse
Psychologist, Harvard University; Author, Wet Mind
>Human Intelligence Can Be Increased, and Can Be Increased
Dramatically
Cosmologist, Tufts University; Author, Many Worlds In One
>What Lies Behind Our Cosmic Horizon?
Research Associate, Psychology, Harvard University; Author, The Alex
Studies
>A Second (and Better) Enlightenment
Psychologist & Computer Scientist; Engines for Education Inc.; Author,
Making Minds Less Well Educated than Our Own
>The End of the Commoditization of Knowledge
Futurist, Business Strategist; Cofounder. Global Business Network, a
Monitor Company; Author, The Long Boom
>Growing Older
Science Historian; Author, Project Orion
>The Return of Commercial Sail
Former VP, Microsoft & Co-Founder & Director, Microsoft's Virtual
Worlds Group/Social Computing Group
>Using Technology Toward a Healthier Global Community
Senior Editor, Newsweek; Author High Rise
>Sometime In the Twenty-First Century I Will Understand Twentieth-Century
Physics
Biologist, Schumacher College, Devon, UK; Author, How The Leopard Changed
Its Spots
>Our Ability As a Species to Respond To the Challenge
Presented By Peak Oil
Evolutionary Psychologist, University of New Mexico; Author, The Mating
Mind
>Death
Philosopher, Harvard University; Author, Betraying Spinoza
>We Have the Capacity to Understand One Another
Epistemologist of Randomness and Applied Statistician; Author, Fooled
By Randomness
>The Birth of Stochastic Science
Biologist; Geographer, UCLA; Author, Collapse
>Good Choices Sometimes Prevail
Director, the Center for Science Writings, Stevens Institute of Technology;
Author, Rational Mysticism
>War Will End
Psychologist and Skeptic; Author, Consciousness: An Introduction
>Our Civilisation Will Survive the Coming Climate Catastrophe
Ophthalmologist and Neurobiologist, University of California, Davis
>We Will Lead Healthy and Productive Lives Well Past Our
Tenth Decade
Neuroscience Researcher; Author, The End of Faith
>We Are Making Moral Progress
Inventor and Technologist; Author, The Singularity Is Near: When Humans
Transcend Biology
>I'm Confident About Energy, the Environment, Longevity,
and Wealth; I'm Optimistic (But Not Necessarily Confident)
Of the Avoideance Of Existential Downsides; And I'm Hopeful
(But Not Necessarily Optimistic) About a Repeat Of 9-11 (Or
Worse)
Science Writer; Founding chairman of the International Centre for Life;
Author, Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code
>The Future
Media Analyst; Documentary Writer; Author, Get Back in the Box : Innovation
from the Inside Out
>Human Beings Are Different
Physicist, Harvard University; Author, Warped Passages
>People Will Increasingly Value Truth (Over Truthiness)
Physicist, Institute of Advanced Study, Author, Disturbing the Universe
>HAR1 (Human Accelerated Region 1) As a New Tool
Leading Us Toward a Deep Understanding of Human Nature
Psychiatrist, University of Michigan; Coauthor, Why We Get Sick
>We Will Find New Ways To Block Pessimism
Feuilleton (Arts & Ideas) Editor, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Munich
>We Will Overcome Agnotology (The Cultural Production of
Ignorance)
Computer Scientist, Yale University; Chief Scientist, Mirror Worlds Technologies;
Author, Drawing Life
>The Future of Software
Psychologist, University of Virginia
>The Baby Boomers Will Soon Retire
Professor of Journalism, New York University; formerly journalist, Science
magazine; Author, Zero: The Biography Of A Dangerous Idea
>Pessimistic In Its Optimism
Former Europe editor, Time Magazine; Author, The World in a Phrase
>PCT Will Allow People To Take Individual Action to Tackle
a Global Problem
Professor, The University of Washington School of Medicine; Author, A
Brain For All Seasons
>The Climate Optimist
Software and Design Pioneer
>Neo-Contentism
Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School; Director, Center for Computational
Genetics
>Personal Genomics Will Arrive This Year, and With
It a Revolutionary Wave Of Volunteerism and Self-Knowledge
Open Source Programs Manager, Google Inc.; Editor, Open Sources: Voices
From the Open Source Software Revolution and Open Sources 2.0
>Widely Available, Constantly Renewing, High Resolution
Images of the Earth Will End Conflict and Ecological Devastation
As We Know It
Computational Neuroscientist, Salk Institute, Coauthor, The Computational
Brain
>A Breakthrough in Understanding Intelligence is
around the Corner
Editor-in Chief, Nature
>Optimism Needs To Have Bite So That Pioneering Work In Early
Cancer Detection Is Championed and Funded
Physicist, University of Pennsylvania; Author: Faust In Copenhagen: A
Struggle for the Soul of Physics
>The Future Of String Theory
Neuroscientist, Chairman, Board of Directors, Human Science Center and
Department of Medical Psychology, Munich University, Germany; Author,
Mindworks
>"Monocausalitis" -- Pestimistic Optimism
To Overcome a Common Disease
Quantum Mechanical Engineer, MIT, Author, Programing the Universe
>My Stupid, but Not Misguided, Optimism
Psychologist, University of California, Irvine
>The Importance Of Innocence
Physicist, MIT; Researcher, Precision Cosmology
>We're Not Insignificant After All
Psychologist, Autism Research Centre, Cambridge University; Author, The
Essential Difference
>The Rise of Autism and The Digital Age
Physicist, Perimeter Institute; Author, The Trouble With Physics
>The Return of the Discipline of Experiment Will Tranform
Our Knowledge of Fundamental Physics
Independent Investigator and Theoretician; Author, No Two Alike: Human
Nature and Human Individuality
>The Survival of Friendship
Co-editor, Boing Boing; Research Affiliate, Institute for the Future;
Editor-at-Large, MAKE:
>We're Recognizing That the World Is a Wunderkammer
Professor Emeritus, Senior Research Scientist, Department of Chemistry,
New York University; Author, Planetary Dreams
>Strangers In Our Midst
Science Writer; Consultant; Lecturer, Copenhagen; Author, The Generous
Man
>Optimism...
Computer Scientist, UC Berkeley, School of Information
>The Rise of Usability
Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Seed
>Science on the Agenda
Computer Scientist, Brandeis University
>AI Will Arise
Scientist; Spanish Television Presenter; Author, The Happiness Trip
>We Can No Longer Be Sure Of Anything
Neuroscientist; Director, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Lab, UCLA
>Neuroscience Will Change Society
Human Genome Decoder; Director, The J. Craig Venter Institute
>Evidence-Based Decision Making Will Help Transform Society
Physicist, currently at CERN
>The Ever Awaited Super-Collider
Director, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
(CSAIL); Chief Technical Officer of iRobot Corporation; author Flesh
and Machines
>The 22nd Century
Physicist, MIT; Author, FAB
>The Creation As Well As Consumption of Scientific Knowledge
Will Be Potentially Accessible To Anyone
Social & Technology Network Topology Researcher; Adjunct Professor,
NYU Graduate School of Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP)
>Evidence
University of Vienna and Scientific Director, Institute of Quantum Optics
and Quantum Information, Austrian Academy of Sciences
>The Future Of Science
Professor, Claremont McKenna College; Past-president, American Psychological
Association; Author, Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities
>How Technology Is Saving the World
Professor of Psychology, Provost, Senior Vice President, Tufts University
>The Globalization Of Higher Education
Philosopher and Researcher, Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique;
Author, Text-E: Text in the Age of the Internet
>The Impact Of Multilingualism In Europe
Columnist, Vanity Fair; Author, Autumn of the Moguls
>The Joys Of Failing Enterprises
Consultant, Adaptive Optics; Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, University
of Utah
>The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Technology Forecaster; Consulting Associate Professor, Stanford University
>Humankind Is Particularly Good At Muddling
Social and cognitive scientist; Directeur de Recherche, CNRS, Paris;
Author, Rethinking Symbolism
>Altruism on the Web
Research Professor, Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University; Author,
Why We Love
>"Free Love"
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz; Author, Being No One
>I Will Be Dead Wrong Again
Tech Culture Journalist; Co-editor, BoingBoing; Commentator, NPR; Columnist,
Wired
>Truth Prevails. Sometimes, Technology Helps
Psychologist, New York University; Author, The Birth of the Mind
>Metacognition For Kids
Psychologist, MIT; Author, Evocative Objects: Things We Think With
>The Immeasurables
Chief Curator, Utah Museum of Natural History; Associate Professor, University
of Utah; Host, Dinosaur Planet TV series
>A New, Environmentally Sustainable Worldview
Physicist, Arizona State University; Author, The Cosmic Jackpot
>A One-Way Ticket To Mars
Student, MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms; Researcher, Internet 0, Fab
Lab Thinner Clients for South Africa, Conformal Computing
>Technology in Education
Science Editor, The Daily Telegraph; Coauthor, After Dolly
>The Public Will Become Immune To Hype
Mathematician, Computer Scientist; CyberPunk Pioneer; Novelist; Author,
Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul
>A Knowable Gaian Mind
Physicist, UC Irvine; Author, Deep Time
>Save The Arctic
Archaeologist, University of Bradford; Author, The Buried Soul
>Skeuomorphism
Biologist; Climatologist, Stanford University; Author, Laboratory Earth
>The Ozone Hole
Science Writer; Author, Us and Them: Understanding Your Tribal Mind
>The Zombie Concept Of Identity
Writer and Television Producer; Author, The Riemann Hypothesis
>The Optimism of Scientists
Editor in Chief, Wired Magazine; Author, The Long Tail
>A Tipping Point For Climate Change Sentiment
Psychologist, London School of Economics; Author, Seeing Red
>The Best Is Yet To Come
Evolutionary Biologist, Charles Simonyi Professor For The Understanding
Of Science, Oxford University; Author, The God Delusion
The Final Scientific Enlightenment
Computer Scientist and Musician
>Interpersonal Communication Will Become More Profound; Rationality
Will Become Ever More Romantic
Entrepreneur in Action, Sequoia Capital
>Eudaemonia: The Third form Of Happiness
Aritifical Life Researcher; Creator of Lucy, a Robot Babay Orangutan;
Author, Creation: Life and How to Make It
>The Strong Possibility That We've Got Everything
Horribly Wrong
Professor of Philosophy, Edinburgh University; Author, Being There: Putting
Brain, Body and World Together Again
>The End Of The 'Natural'
Founder, Whole Earth Catalog, cofounder; The Well; cofounder, Global
Business Network; Author, How Buildings Learn
>Cities -- Global Population Shrinkage And Economic
Growth
Psychologist; Director, Quality of Life Research Center, Claremont Graduate
University; Author, Flow
>We Are Asking And Answering
Editor, Release 1.0; Trustee, Long Now Foundation; Author, Release 2.0
>The Attention Of The World's Rich Will Turn To
Solving The Problems Of The Poor
Physicist, Stanford University; Author, The Cosmic Landscape
>Going Beyond Our Darwinian Roots
Cultural Revolution Correspondent, Washington Post; Author, Radical Evolution" The
Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- And What It Means
to Be Human
>The Human Response To Vast Change Will Involve
Strange Bounces
Psychologist; Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, Harvard
University
>Unraveling Beliefs
Geochronologist Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley
>Geomorphic Evidence for Life on Mars
Physicist, Computer Scientist; Chairman, Applied Minds, Inc.; Author,
The Pattern on the Stone
>The Long View of Demographics
Chief Executive, Medical Research Council;Waynflete Professor of Physiology,
University of Oxford
>Things will -- er -- get better
Psychologist, Stanford University; Author, The Lucifer Effect: Understanding
How Good People Turn Evil
>The Situational Focus
Artist; Composer; Recording Producer: U2, Talking Heads, Paul Simon;
Recording Artist
>And Now the Good News
Physicist, Dartmouth College; Author, The Prophet and the Astronomer
>That the Debate or, Should I Say, War, Between Science and
Religion Will See New Light
Computer Scientist, MIT Media Laboratory
>The Human Nervous System Has Come Alive