The Global Business Network is a consultancy firm that advises businesses on possible future scenarios. Questions pondered are those like "What if exposure to computer screens is shown to be toxic?" High profile members of the GBN include:

• John Perry Barlow
• Mary Catherine Bateson
• Stewart Brand
• Douglas Coupland
• K. Eric Drexler
• Freeman Dyson
• Brian Eno
• Francis Fukuyama
• Peter Gabriel
• William Gibson
• Paul Hawken
• Danny Hillis
• James Hillman
• William Joy
• Kevin Kelly
• Jaron Lanier
• Lawrence Lasker
• Amory Lovins
• Michael Murphy
• Nancy Ramsey
• Paul Saffo
• Brian Sager
• Russell (Rusty) Schweickart
• Alexander Singer
• Bruce Sterling
• Sherry Turkle
• Peter Warshall

John Perry Barlow (born October 3, 1947) is an American poet, essayist, and former lyricist for the Grateful Dead. ... Mary Catherine Bateson (born 1939) is a United States writer and cultural anthropologist. ... Stewart Brand speaking September 5, 2004 Stewart Brand (born December 14, 1938 in Rockford, Illinois) is an author, editor, and creator of The Whole Earth Catalog, CoEvolution Quarterly, and the pioneering online community The WELL. He has also been an appointee to California state government and is one of the... Douglas Coupland (born December 30, 1961) is a Canadian author and cultural commentator, raised in Vancouver, British Columbia. ... K. Eric Drexler (born April 25, 1955) is best known for popularizing the potential of molecular nanotechnology. ... Freeman Dyson at Harvard University in 2004 Freeman John Dyson (born December 15, 1923) is an English-born American physicist and mathematician. ... Brian Eno in 1977 Brian Peter George St. ... Francis Fukuyama (born October 27, 1952 in Chicago) is an influential American political economist and author. ... Peter Brian Gabriel (born February 13, 1950, in Cobham, Surrey, England) is an English musician. ... William Gibson: Cyberpunk Author. ... Paul Hawken is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, journalist, and best-selling author. ... This article needs cleanup. ... James Hillman is a highly original American Jungian psychology writer and founder of Archetypal Psychology. ... William N. Joy (born 1954), commonly known as Bill Joy, co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 along with Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy and Andy Bechtolsheim, and served as chief scientist at the company until 2003. ... Kevin Kelly Kevin Kelly is the founding executive editor of Wired magazine, and former publisher of the Whole Earth Catalog. ... Jaron Lanier is an artist, musician, inventor, virtual reality developer, film director, public speaker, and member of the Global Business Network. ... Writer and producer who entered American film in 1983. ... Physicist Amory Bloch Lovins is a co-CEO of the Rocky Mountain Institute, and author and co-author of books which make arguments for and popularize energy-efficiency principles to public and corporate audiences. ... For other people with the same name, see Michael Murphy Michael Murphy is the co-founder of the Esalen Institute, a key figure in the Human Potential Movement and author of both fiction and non-fiction books on topics related to extraordinary human potential. ... Paul Saffo is Research Director and the Roy Amara Fellow at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, CA. Paul is a gifted quote-giver. ... Russell L. Rusty Schweickart (born October 25, 1935, in Neptune, New Jersey) is an American astronaut. ... Bruce Sterling at the Ars Electronica Festival Bruce Sterling (born April 14, 1954) is an American science fiction author, best known for his novels and his seminal work on the Mirrorshades anthology, which defined the cyberpunk genre. ... Sherry Turkle (born 1948) is a clinical psychologist and a professor of Science, Technology and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ...

External links

• GBN Global Business Network (http://www.gbn.org/)