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Exactly how many hours a week do you Surf the Internet? Compare that number with a year ago. Now project forward at the same growth rate, and within two years, you’ll never get off! What happens when everybody is on-line? When geographic distance evaporates? When access is immediate? When individuals outshine institutions? When gratification must be instant? Is the Internet a revolutionary technology, like, say, personal computers or even the automobile? No. The impact of the Internet, will be far greater. 

Participants:  Fukuyama, Geis, Kosko, Minsky, Murray

	Francis Fukuyama is widely recognized as one of the leading geopolitical thinkers in the world. He writes and lectures about international political economy, culture, and social capital. His seminal article and book, The End of History and the Last Man, has been called the most important work of philosophical history since Marx and has stimulated enormous interest and controversy. He is professor of public policy at George Mason University and the author of TRUST: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity, and The Great Disruption.
	George Geis is adjunct professor in the Anderson School of Management at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) where he specializes in strategies for the digital economy. He has written articles and books on technology, consults for major companies, tracks technology as president of Trivergence.com, and is quoted often in the national media.
	Bart Kosko is a leading authority in the new field of fuzzy logic. He is professor of electrical engineering at the University of Southern California and the author of Fuzzy Thinking, Fuzzy Engineering, The Fuzzy Future, and the futuristic novel Nanotime.
	Marvin Minsky, professor of media arts and science at MIT, is one of the founders of the field of artificial intelligence. He has made important contributions to machine perception, robotics, computational linguistics, and knowledge representation. He was the co-founder and long-time director of MIT’s world-renowned Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and is the author of important books on thinking such as The Society of Mind.
	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.
	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.