7 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
American inventor, architect, and futurist who developed the geodesic dome and proposed a comprehensive design science approach to solving humanity's problems through technology.
Yuval Noah Harari's 2015 speculative history of humanity's future — arguing that as humanity solves famine, plague, and war, we will turn to new projects of godlike technological enhancement — the most widely read speculative history of technology and human enhancement.
American writer and co-founder of Wired who has developed a philosophical account of technology as a self-organizing system with its own evolutionary logic.
American economist at George Mason — inventor of prediction markets (policy analysis market) — author of The Age of Em (on whole brain emulation) and The Elephant in the Brain (with Kevin Simler) — who consistently proposes contrarian models of human behavior and social institutions.
American writer and editor who created the Whole Earth Catalog — the information bible of the 1960s counterculture — and has been a consistently original voice on technology, ecology, and long-term thinking.
American science fiction author and futurist — co-founder of the cyberpunk movement, editor of the Mirrorshades anthology, and one of the most influential technology commentators of the last 40 years.
Brian Roemmele is an American technology researcher, analyst, and futurist known for his early and sustained expertise in voice AI, conversational interfaces, and the history of payment technology. He is considered one of the most knowledgeable independent researchers on the development of voice computing and has been a prominent voice on the cultural and technological implications of ambient AI.