Global Business Network

The Global Business Network is a consultancy firm that advises businesses on possible future scenarios. The GBN has an amazing lineup.

Some Members Are
John Barlow Grateful Dead lyricist; cofounder, Electronic Frontier Foundation; Wyoming rancher Mary Catherine Bateson Anthropologist; visiting professor, Harvard University; professor emerita, George Mason University; author, Composing a Life and Full Circles, Overlapping Lives Stewart Brand Founder: The Whole Earth Catalog, CoEvolution Quarterly, The Point Foundation, Global Business Network (co-founder), The Well (co-founder), The Hacker's Conference, The Long Now Foundation; author, The Whole Earth Catalog, The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at MIT, How Buildings Learn, The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility Douglas Coupland Novelist, Generation X, Microserfs, All Families Are Psychotic. K. Eric Drexler (advisory) Director, The Foresight Institute; author, Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology and Unbounding the Future Freeman Dyson Physicist, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University; author, Infinite in All Directions and Disturbing the Universe; recipient, 2000 Templeton Prize for progress in religion Brian Eno Cutting edge artist and musician; producer of U2, David Bowie, and many others; author, A Year Francis Fukuyama Professor of Public Policy , Johns Hopkins University; consultant, the Rand Corporation; former deputy director, U.S. Department of State; author, The End of History, Trust, and Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution Peter Gabriel (advisory) British rock musician and human rights activist William Gibson Science fiction writer, Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Virtual Light, All Tomorrow's Parties, and Pattern Recognition Paul Hawken Chair, The Natural Step; cofounder, Metacode, Groxis, and Smith & Hawken; author, Growing a Business and The Ecology of Commerce; coauthor, Natural Capitalism Danny Hillis Inventor and computer scientist; cofounder, Applied Minds and The Long Now Foundation; former Disney fellow and vice president, R&D; founder, Thinking Machines; author, The Pattern in the Stone James Hillman (advisory) Jungian analyst; author, Kinds of Power and The Soul's Code; founder, Spring Publications; former director of studies, Jung Institute	William Joy Cofounder and chief scientist, Sun Microsystems; software architect and technology futurist; author, Why the Future Doesn't Need Us Kevin Kelly Writer on technology, culture, and change; former executive editor, Wired Magazine; author, Out of Control: The Rise of Neo-Biological Civilization and New Rules for the New Economy Jaron Lanier Composer and musician; computer scientist; visual artist; writer; virtual reality pioneer; lead scientist, The National Tele-immersion Initiative; visiting scholar, Columbia University Lawrence Lasker Independent film writer/producer; co-producer, "Awakenings" and "Sneakers" Amory Lovins Energy efficiency pioneer; cofounder and CEO of research, Rocky Mountain Institute; director of Hypercar Inc, [fellow]; coauthor, Natural Capitalism Michael Murphy Cofounder, Esalen Institute; author, The Kingdom of Shivas Irons, Golf in the Kingdom, and The Future of the Body; coauthor, The Life We Are Given Nancy Ramsey Writer, futurist, entrepreneur; president, Morning Star Imports; former legislative assistant; coauthor, Nuclear Weapons Decision Making and The Futures of Women Paul Saffo Director, Institute for the Future; specialist in emerging communications and information technologies Brian Sager Entrepreneur; biochemist; founder, Nanosolar, a nanotechnology startup; new classical music composer Russell (Rusty) Schweickart Consultant, satellite technology and space development; Apollo 9 astronaut; cofounder, Association of Space Explorers; cofounder, B612 Foundation Alexander Singer Film and television director ("Star Trek," "Hill Street Blues") Bruce Sterling Science fiction writer, The Hacker Crackdown, Holy Fire, and Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next Fifty Years; science journalist; catalyst, the Viridian Movement Sherry Turkle Computer sociologist and professor, MIT; author, Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet and Second Self Peter Warshall Biological anthropologist; consulting ecologist to the UN, African nations, and American Indian tribes; editor, Whole Earth Review

Some "what if?" scenarios include

• What if a member of Opus Dei becomes Pope?
• What if exposure to computer screens is shown to be toxic?

External Links

• GBN Global Business Network