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Investor, author, economist, and co-founder of the Discovery Institute. Author of "Wealth and Poverty" which advocated for supply-side economics and capitalism. Chairman of George Gilder Fund Management, LLC.
English science fiction writer, science writer, futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host.
Making a living via a portfolio of small bets.
Luciana Parisi’s research is a philosophical investigation of technology in culture, aesthetics and politics. She is a Professor in Media Philosophy at the Program in Literature and the Computational Media Art and Culture at Duke University. She is the author of Abstract Sex: Philosophy, Biotechnology and the Mutations of Desire (2004, Continuum Press) and Contagious Architecture. Computation, Aesthetics and Space (2013, MIT Press). She is completing a monograph on alien epistemologies and the transformation of logical thinking in computation.
Computer scientist, author, inventor, and futurist. Known for his work in optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments. Public advocate for the futurist and transhumanist movements.