| ASF Governance, Change
Leaders, and Workgroups
Our
Governance, Advisory, and Production Communities
Let
us know if you'd like to contribute to our nonprofit by joining
one of the following groups.
Executives
Executives are responsible for management and corporate structure.
John Smart, President
Iveta Brigis, Treasurer; Producer, Fusion
Sandra Russell, Secretary
Clement Vidal, Research Associate
Board
of Directors
The ASF board guides the management activities of our nonprofit
corporation, and approves its bylaws.
John Smart, Chairman; President;
Co-Producer, AC
Iveta Brigis, Treasurer; Producer, Fusion
Sandra Russell, Secretary
Alvis Brigis, General Board
Mark Finnern, General Board; Founder, Bay
Area Future Salon (Palo Alto); Co-Producer, AC
Jerry Paffendorf, General Board; Founder, Second
Life Future Salon
Sibley Verbeck, General Board
Associates
The associates are a larger group of volunteer officers, colleagues,
and strategic partners who currently or have recently contributed
time, talent, or advice to ASF. Several have their own areas of
independent project authority.
Jef
Allbright, Research
and Consulting
Martin Andersen, Research Associate
Sonia Arrison, AC Emcee, Consultant
Elaine Baran, Consultant
Joe Beachy, AC Tech Director
Brent Bushnell, UCLA Future Salon Moderator
Gilda Cabral, LV Future Salon Moderator
Jamais Cascio (Unassigned)
Phil Cojanis, Technical Staff
Tony Diaz, DVD Editor
Christy Dugger, HS Future Salons Coordinator
Mike Eddy, Legal Consulting
Star Fitzgerald, SD Future Salon
Troy Gardner, Technical Consultant
Norman Gilmore, Deputy Technical Director
Gaurav Gupta, Online Community
Paul Grasshoff, Events Coordinator
Jeff Hilford, Sponsorships Consulting
Tanya Jones, Program Consultant
Alex Kawas, Photography
Mike
Korns, LV Future Salon Moderator
Adam
Lasnik, Forums
Consultant |
Mark
Lenhart, Marketing Associate
Alex Lightman, Consultant
Sean Murphy, Research and Consulting
Phil Nelson (Unassigned)
Jerry Paffendorf, Community Director
Jimbob Peltaire, Tech Night Director
Wayne Radinsky, Research and Consulting
Jessica Richman, New Programs
Sara Robinson, Curriculum Development
Marlon Rojas, Graphic Design Director
Erik Sayle (Unassigned)
Kamalika Sen Roy, Database Developer
Dann Sheridan (Unassigned)
Chris Smith, Conference Marketing
Rion Snow, Speaker Consultant
Rob Sperry, SD Future Salon Moderator
Phil Steele, Event Support
Ted Strain, AC DVD Series Editor
Melanie Swan, AC Emcee, Consultant
Peter Thiel, AC Supporter
Lisa Tansey, SD Future Salon Moderator
Nato Welch, ASF Webmaster
Andrew Zolli, Consultant
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ASF
Advisory Boards
Advisors are prominently known, well-connected, or highly qualified
individuals who lend their credibility to ASF
via an advisory position. They receive quarterly status reports
on our activities, and respond with advice as time and interest
allow.
All ASF advisors consider the topic of accelerating change an important
and understudied dialog, necessary to the development of greater
social foresight. We make an effort to represent in this community
not only those who expect a significantly faster and more opportunity-
and challenge-rich future but also contrarian views, including those
who suspect our current era of acceleration may be an illusion of
perspective, or if real may not continue. In particular, we recognize
that the thesis of continuously accelerating universal computation,
when viewed as a generalized process (progressing through geological,
chemical, biological, cultural, and now technological "substrates"
in evolutionary development) has yet to be extensively modeled,
validated, and reconciled with logistic growth ("S" curve)
models which can be readily observed for specific substrates. As
pointed out by Ted Modis (not an ASF advisor) and
others, the formal study of accelerating change is at best a "para-science"
at the present time.
During the next several years we will work toward a multidisciplinary
set of 100 advisors in each of the following ten advisory boards.
We are also seeking more female, multiethnic, and non-U.S. composition
for our advisory boards. Please send us your diversity-enhancing
advisor recommendations.
1.
Scientific Advisory Board
This board includes researchers and select philosophers exploring
the accelerating developmental record of physical complexity over
a broad range of academic disciplines and substrate scales (physical,
chemical, biological, cultural, technological).
Dr. Pierre Baldi, Director, IGB,
U.C. Irvine, Author, The
Shattered Self, Bioinformatics
(homesite)
Dr. Yoseph Bar-Cohen, Senior Research Scientist
and Group Leader, NDEAA Lab,
JPL (homesite)
Dr. Richard L. Coren, (Emeritus) Professor
of Electrical Engrg., Drexel U., Author, The
Evolutionary Trajectory, 1998
James N. Gardner, Complexity Theorist and Science Writer,
Author, Biocosm,
2003
Hal Linstone, Emeritus Professor of System Science,
Portland State University; Editor-in-Chief, Technological
Forecasting and Social Change; Author, Decision
Making for Technology Executives, The
Unbounded Mind.
Dr. Stan Salthe, SUNY Binghamton; Author, Evolving
Hierarchical Systems, Development
and Evolution (homesite)
2.
Educational/Consulting Advisory Board
This board includes faculty and consultants in technology assessment,
complexity studies, future studies, and related subjects nationwide.
Miguel Aznar, Executive Director, KnowledgeContext.
Author, Technology
Challenged, 2005
Craig Belanger, Co-Editor, Journal
of Advancing Technology, University
of Advancing Technology
David Clemens, Monterey Peninsula College, Monterey, CA; Instructor,
English 38: More
Or Less than Human?
Joseph Coates, Professional Futurist,
JosephCoates.com
Dennis List, Futurist and Principal, Audience
Dialog; Editor, New
Zealand Whole Earth Catalogue, 1972-77
Jos de Mul, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Author,
Cyberspace
Odyssey
William Halal, Professor of Mgmt Science, George Washington
U., Developer, TechCast
Delphi Forecast (homesite)
Matthew Jolly, Associate Professor, University
of Advancing Technology; Editor, Journal
of Advancing Technoloogy (homesite)
Nelson Kellogg, Sonoma State University, Author,
The
Persistence of Visions
Thomas Lombardo, Rio Salado College, Author,
Doorways
to the Future, 2000 (homesite)
Dr. Pero Micic, President, FutureManagementGroup
AG
Mutombo Mpanya, Sonoma State University, Interdisciplinary
Studies
Jonathan Peck, Vice President, Institute
for Alternative Futures
Marc Prensky, CEO, Games2train,
Author, Digital
Game-Based Learning (weblog)
Art Shostak, Drexel U., FutureShaping.com,
Author, Viable
Utopian Ideas
Stephen P. Steele, Institute
for the Future at AACC, Arnold MD
3.
Technology Advisory Board
This board includes individuals involved in analysis, responsible
development, and guidance of computational and technological systems
over a wide range of human applications.
Sonia Arrison, Director of Technology Studies, Pacific
Research Institute.
Earl Cox, President, Scianta
Intelligence, Author, Beyond
Humanity, 1994; The
Fuzzy Systems Handbook, 1994; Machine Intelligence
Tools for Knowledge Mining and Data Discovery, 2004; Webmaster,
EarlCoxReports
Doug Engelbart, Digital Interface Legend; Chairman, Bootstrap
Institute
John Fritz, Commercial Director, Icosystem
Corporation (weblog)
Ben Goertzel, Founder and CEO, Biomind
LLC , Author, Chaotic
Logic, Creating
Internet Intelligence
Marcos Guillen, CEO, Artificial
Development
Gaurav Gupta, Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence, Techna
Institute, Kolkata, India (homesite)
Jeffrey R. Harrow, Consultant/Speaker on Emerging
Technologies and Accelerating Change; Principal, The
Harrow Group; Author, The
Harrow Technology Report, (bio)
Josh Kirschenbaum, Visual Effects Designer, Lux.
(weblog)
Ray Kurzweil, President, Kurzweil
Technologies, Author, The
Age of Intelligent Machines, 1990; The
Age of Spiritual Machines, 1999; The
Singularity is Near, 2005; Webmaster, KurzweilAI.net,
Scott Lemon, President, HumanXxtensions
LLC. (weblog)
Alex Lightman, CEO, Charmed
Technology and IPv6 Summit.
Author, Brave
New Unwired World, 2002; (homesite)
Jim Mathews, Principal, The
Futures Network
Michael Olson, Consultant, Pleiades
Technology Futures. (weblog)
Jim Pinto, Technology Futurist, Industrial Automation Analyst,
Writer, Author, JimPinto.com
Wayne Williams, CTO, Embarcadero
Technologies
4.
Planetary Advisory Board
This board includes acceleration-aware thinkers, communicators,
and leaders in world governance, environment, ethics, sustainability
and other planet-level dialogs.
Natalie Ambrose, Director, Emerging Issues & Strategic
Planning, The Council on Foundations
Walter Truett Anderson, Author, Evolution
Isn't What it Used to Be, All
Connected Now, The
Next Enlightenment
David Brin, Scientist, Author, Earth,
The Transparent
Society; Science
Fiction and Education, (weblog)
Scott Hunt, Author, The
Future of Peace (homesite)
Doug Mulhall, Author, Our
Molecular Future
Sesh Velamoor, Deputy Director, Foundation
for the Future, Co-Founder, IAPAC
5.
International Advisory Board
This board includes globally operating, multinational and non-U.S.
national acceleration-aware thinkers, communicators, and leaders.
Aziz Alizadeh, Metallurgical Engineer, Tehran, Iran (weblog)
Jose Cordeiro, Adjunct Professor, Central University
of Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela (bio)
Suren Erkman, Professor, Industrial Ecology,
University of Troyes, France. Editor, Perspectives
on IE, 2003. (article).
Malo Girod de l'Ain, Founder and CEO, M2
Editions, Author, 2010
Virtual Future, 2005, Paris, France
Paul Shields, Co-Founder and Director, Oyster
Consulting, Australia (bio)
Rohit Talwar, CEO, Global
Futures and Foresight; Principal, FastFuture,
United Kingdom
6.
National Advisory Board
This board includes U.S. political, legal, and national security
thinkers, communicators, and leaders seeking better governmental
awareness of and response to accelerating change.
Dennis Bushnell, Chief Scientist, NASA
Langley Research Center
Thomas Cowper, Board of Executive Directors, Police
Futurists International
John L. Petersen, Founder and President, The
Arlington Institute
7.
Business Advisory Board
This board comprises U.S. business and economic thinkers, communicators,
and leaders working to understand and manage accelerating scientific
and technological change in enterprise, industry, and economy.
Mary Ann Allison, Principal, Allison
Group, Author, The
Complexity Advantage, 1999
David Blumberg, Chairman, Blumberg
Capital
Michael Eddy, President, Patent.org
David Forrest, President,
Global Vision Consulting Ltd.,
Webmaster, InnovationWatch
Steve Jurvetson, Managing Partner, Draper
Fisher Jurvetson
John Mauldin, President, Millenium
Wave Advisors; Author, Bull's
Eye Investing, 2004
Neil McEvoy, President, On
Demand Network
Sean Murphy, President, SKMurphy.com
Melanie Swan, President, MS
Financial Group
Steve Waite, Author, Boomernomics,
Quantum
Investing
Janet Staker-Woerner, Converging
Communications; Professor, NY
Inst. of Technology. (Weblog).
William F. Zachmann, CEO, Canopus
Research. (homepage).
Online Book, 1986
8.
Cultural Advisory Board
This board includes global sociotechnological, relationship, entertainment,
and aesthetic thinkers, communicators. and leaders seeking to understand,
interpret, mediate, and guide the impacts of accelerating change
on human culture.
Greg Bear, Author, Blood
Music, Darwin's
Radio
Howard Bloom, Author, The
Lucifer Principle, Global
Brain
George Dvorsky, Editor, Betterhumans.
Homepage.
Alan Kazlev, Webmaster, Kheper.net;
Ramez Naam, Author, More
than Human, 2005
Patrick Gunkel, Theoretical Neuroscientist,
Developer of Ideonomy
Frank Paynter, President, Sandhill
Technologies (Weblog)
Wolf Read, Author, "About
the Technological Singularity;" Contributing Writer,
Analog Science Fiction
and Fact
Sam Williams, Author, Arguing
A.I.
Andrew Zolli, Lead Partner, Z+
Partners (Weblog)
9.
Individual Advisory Board
This board includes global health, spiritual, self-development,
and self-empowerment thinkers, communicators, and leaders contemplating
the meaning and effect of accelerating change on the individual
human.
Jan Amkreutz, Author, Digital
Spirit, 2003; Webmaster, Digeality.com.
Michael Anissimov, Webmaster, AcceleratingFuture.com
Flemming Funch, Founder, New
Civilization Network (Weblog)
James Hughes, Secretary, WTA,
Host of Changesurfer
Radio
Dave Kekich, President, Maximum
Life Foundation
Wayne Radinsky, Webmaster, SingularityInvestor
John Renesch, Author, Getting
to a Better Future, 2000; Editor FutureShapers
Monthly.
Mark Rotenberg, Independent Game
Developer. Formerly with Angel Studios, Rockstar Games.
Peter Russell, Author, The
Global Brain, Waking
up in Time (homesite)
10.
Student Advisory Board
This board includes a select group of graduate, undergraduate, high
school, and independent scholars with a strong interest in the better
understanding and guidance of accelerating change.
Lion Alpaugh, Naropa University; Webmaster, Integral
Singularity
Cheryl Morris, Nova Southeastern U (Weblog)
Sponge Nebson, Cal State University Long Beach
Jessica Richman, Stanford University
Sara Robinson, University of Houston; Editor,
Orcinus
Rion Snow, Stanford University
Change
Leaders Directory
Select
Public Leaders Notably Advancing the Understanding and Management
of Accelerating Planetary Change
The following
is small but growing list of notable Science,
Technology,
Business,
and Social
leaders engaged in understanding issues and processes
of accelerating change.
These
distinguished thought- and change-leaders are not affiliated with
ASF, but where we have contact information, they are all
formally invited to attend our annual conference, Accelerating
Change. Others to suggest? Please let
us know. Potential candidates should have published work that
deals uniquely, incisively and pragmatically with some scientific,
technological, business, or social dimension of accelerating change.
Female
and underrepresented minority
leaders are listed in green, and international
leaders in orange. Accompanying each individual's entry are sample
publications, and occasional ASF comments regarding topics of interest.
Each leader has
been categorized on the basis of our subjective assessment, from
a small sample of their work. All may contact
us to edit, recategorize, multiply categorize, or delist their
entries at any time.
• Science
and Research
• Technology and Innovation
• Business, Economics,
and Development
•
Social, Political, Education,
Environment, Health, Etc.
Several of these
individuals will also be invited to Acceleration Studies,
our technical conference, when we are able to produce this future
event. A very partial list of conceptual keywords relevant
to the academic study of accelerating processes of planetary change
may be found here.
Web-Based
Workgroups
Accelerating
Productions (AP) is a community of future-oriented
individuals who also have media production interests. AP
is planning the development of attention-getting mass media (conferences,
events, film, web content, graphical presentations, audio, and text)
that help people think more deeply, intelligently and critically
about the accelerating future. If you have production interests
and would like to contribute to the development of future-oriented
media projects, click the link above and tell us a little
about your media and futures interest and experience in your signup.
Thank you to all the members of our growing community for helping
us to bring greater attention, resources, insight, and critique
to these important issues.
We are privileged to be working with all of you! |
