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Close you eyes. Fast forward 25 years. Open your eyes. What do you see? 25 years ago, there were no personal computers and no kids surfing the internet. 25 years from now, what new things will emerge? What surprising discoveries? Will technology make life happy or gloomy, content or confused? Will the world be more free or more fragmented? People, more equal or more estranged? What about competitiveness, conflicts, hostilities, wars? Will First Contact be made with aliens? We couldn’t forecast the past 25. Can we do better with the next 25? 

Participants: De Bono, Feigenbaum, Kosko, Molitor, Murray

 

	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.
	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.
	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.
	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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