Paul Saffo (born in 1954 in Los Angeles) is a technology forecaster. He is the Roy Amara Fellow at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, California. He is also a board member of the Long Now Foundation. He has degrees from Harvard College, Cambridge University, and Stanford University. Saffo is frequently quoted in leading publications on issues ranging from high technology to global lifestyles.

Esther Dyson is a self-described authority on emerging digital technology, and considered a founding member of the digerati. Esther Dyson is the daughter of Freeman Dyson, a physicist, and Verana Huber-Dyson, a mathematician, and the sister of the digital technology historian George Dyson. After graduating from Harvard in economics, she joined Forbes as a fact-checker and quickly rose to reporter.

William Daniel "Danny" Hillis (born September 25, 1956, in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American inventor, entrepreneur, and author. He co-founded Thinking Machines Corporation, a company that developed the Connection Machine, a parallel supercomputer designed by Hillis at MIT. He is also co-founder of the Long Now Foundation, Applied Minds, Metaweb Technologies, and author of The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work.

Kurt is a computer scientist with a research background in the areas of machine learning, digital libraries, and electro-cardiographic modeling. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and was co-creator of the CiteSeer research tool while a researcher at The NEC Research Institute . He was the technical director of The Internet Archive , and a research engineer at the Duke University Medical Center .

Doug Carlston has served as chairman of the board of Public Radio International, a leading source for public radio programming, since June 2003, having been a member of that board since March 1997. He also serves as chief executive officer of Tawala Systems, an Internet technology company he co-founded in 2005.

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Kurt Bollacker Digital Research Director, The Long Now Foundation

STEWART BRAND is a true visionary thinker of long-term proportion. Founder of Whole Earth Magazine , co-founder of the Global Business Network and The Long Now Foundation , Brand is a leader in considering our present impact on the future.

David Rumsey , Chairman of the Board David Rumsey became Chairman of the Board in January 2006. He first started working with Luna Imaging in 1995, when he began the task of digitizing his map collection . With over 13,000 high resolution images, the collection is widely distributed through Luna’s Insight software. In 2002, he was given an Honors Award from the Special Libraries Association for making his collection available to the public.

Stewart Brand, president, The Long Now Foundation

Alex is a user experience architect who has led projects for clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to start-ups, including Yahoo! , Microsoft, IBM, AOL, Macromedia, frog design, Sun Microsystems, Rollyo, the University of California and the Long Now Foundation, among others. His work has won numerous design industry awards, including a 2006 Webby nomination, Cool Site of the Year award, American Graphic Design award, Yahoo! WebInnovation award, and IBM Chairman's letter.

Currently Toni is a charter member of the Long Now Foundation; an associate member of P.E.N, a member of the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals and a member of the Society for Competitive Information Professionals. She is currently writing her first book, "The Greatest Player who Never Was," a biography of women's and civil rights pioneer and founder of women's professional tennis, Gladys M. Heldman, who was a childhood friend and early mentor.