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Futures People

The best set of links to futures people is at KurzweilAI.net. A wide variety of futures people can be found there along with brief biographies and links to some of their important works. The links below are to people with whom the Pardee Center has had some contact and who have individual web pages. In time, this list will expand. If you have candidates for either category below, please contact Jim Dewar.

Individuals

• Stewart Brand
• David Brin
• Arthur C. Clarke
• Joseph Coates
• Jared Diamond
• Patrick Dixon
• Amitai Etzioni
• Sohail Inayatullah
• Stuart A. Kauffman
• Ray Kurzweil
• Bruce Sterling

People Links

• KurzweilAI.net
• Association of Professional Futurists
• Futurists and Great Thinkers
• The UK Futurists Network
• Great Thinkers and Visionaries on the Net
• Futures Thinkers - Names
• NAU - ANT 547 The Study of the Future Three Futurists

 

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