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What will the new millennium bring? To forecast the future, we must process the past. What happened in the last millennium? Why such extremes? If change is marked as a function of time, the last thousand years were astonishing. Humanity transformed -- from knights on horses to kids on computers -- but the price paid was very high. So much collective suffering; so much personal agony. How did humanity think during the last millennium? What were the thought processes that simultaneously built civilization and spread devastation? And what lessons can we learn for the next millennium? Let’s understand thinking, its categories and applications. If you can think clearer, you can think better. 

Participants: De Bono, Feigenbaum, Molitor, Nuland, Skyrms

Edward de Bono is the pioneer and leading authority in the teaching and stimulation of creativity. During the past 30 years, he has written over 30 books on creativity, including his path-breaking Lateral Thinking. His systems for teaching creativity have been adapted by school systems and corporations in many countries around the world.

Edward Feigenbaum, a pioneer in artificial intelligence, is called the "Father of Expert Systems." He is professor of computer science at Stanford where he is co-scientific director of the Knowledge Systems Laboratory. A former chief scientist of the Air Force, he is the author of Computers and Thought which helped launch artificial intelligence.

Graham T.T. Molitor is vice president and legal counsel of The World Future Society and is the president of Public Policy Forecasting. He is the author of numerous articles and books on the future, including the Encyclopedia of the Future.

Bruce Murray is professor of planetary science and geology at the California Institute of Technology. He was the Director of the NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NASA’s center for planetary and deep space exploration. He is also co-founder (with Carl Sagan) and president of The Planetary Society, the largest public participation organization about Space.

Sherwin Nuland is clinical professor of surgery at Yale University, where he also teaches medical history and bioethics. His best-selling books, How We Die and How We Live, are remarkable portraits of life and death and have been called resonant works of moral philosophy.

Robert Lawrence Kuhn is the creator and host of the Closer To Truth television series and author of the Closer To Truth book. Trained in brain research (Ph.D. UCLA), he has published more than twenty books, including the Handbook for Creative and Innovative Managers and the seven-volume Library of Investment Banking. He is the president of The Geneva Companies, a leading merger and acquisition firm for private, middle market businesses.

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