FastForward Radio -- Techonomy
Phil and Stephen welcome Brian Wang of Next Big Future for a readout on the recent Techonomy conference at Lake Tahoe.
techonomy (te-kän'-uh-mē) n. [tech(nology) + (ec)onomy]
organized activities related to the invention, development,
production, distribution and consumption of technology-enhanced goods
and services that a society uses to address the problem of scarcity and
to enhance the quality of life.
Plus, with Brian on the show you can count on plenty of news about the future and energy.
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About our guest:
Brian Wang is a futurist
who blogs about all things future-related at NextBigFuture.
He is the Director of Research for the Lifeboat Foundation and a member
of the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology Task Force.
Brian Wang is a futurist
who blogs about all things future-related at NextBigFuture.
Christine Peterson writes, lectures, and briefs the media on coming powerful technologies, especially nanotechnology. She is the co- founder and President of Foresight Institute, the leading nanotech public interest group. Foresight educates the public, technical community, and policymakers on nanotechnology and its long-term effects.
PJ Manney is a writer and futurist, and a leading voice in the Humanity+ movement. She is an occasional guest host on FastForward Radio as well as being our official Hollywood correspondent.
Canadian futurist, consultant and award winning 
R.U. Sirius is editor-in-chief of the online transhumanist publication, H+ Magazine. He is former Editor-in-chief of Mondo 2000, a technoculture magazine that was legendary during the 1990s. Books authored or co-authored by Sirius include 
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Natasha Vita-More has been called by the New York Times the first female transhumanist philosopher. Her affiliations, past and present, include Extropy Institute, Transhumanist Arts & Culture, H+ Laboratory, Center for Responsible Nanotechnology, World Transhumanist Association, Alcor Foundation, Zero Gravity Arts Consortium, and Foresight Institute. Her talks and writings include "Talent for Living: Cracking the Myths of Mortality" - talk presented at Alcor 4th Technology Conference, 2000; "Sensorial Mix - The Future of the Senses" - talk presented at EXTRO4, Berkeley, California, 1999; and "Ageless Thinking" - Resources for Independent Thinking, Oakland, CA 1996. 
Alvis Brigis is a media producer, futurist and entrepreneur with a specialty in evolving communications. His diverse background includes roles on projects such as the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Model Search (NBC), MotorMouth (VH1), Virtual Laguna Beach, TheseTunes.com and The Metaverse Roadmap. He is Co-Founder of MemeBox.com, where he writes about intelligence amplification spurred by accelerating technology, communication and information domains.
Brian L. Wang, M.B.A. is the Director of Research for the Lifeboat Foundation. Brian is a long time futurist who has been involved with nanotechnology associations since 1994. He is now a member of the 
Tyler Emerson is founding executive director of the Singularity Institute, a nonprofit for the long term study of advanced artificial intelligence systems. He is curator of the Singularity Summit, an annual conference for gathering the smartest people around to explore the biggest ideas of our time, cofounded in 2006 with inventor Ray Kurzweil and investor Peter Thiel. He is a cofounder and managing trustee of Innerspace Foundation, created to fund research that creates tomorrow's interfaces for accelerating learning and memory. He is a cofounder and director of Humanity+, which is dedicated to fostering emerging innovation that can radically benefit the human condition. He has five years experience in long term philanthropy, concentrating on communications, fundraising, events, strategy, and community organizing. 
