Architects of Tomorrow, Volume 2

Who helped build today’s technology landscape and are hard at work guiding the future? These people...

“The fundamental problem we have isn’t technological, really. It’s that all of us want more than life can give. All of us want to maintain more human contact than we actually have time for.”
— Jaron Lanier, virtual reality pioneer

“If you go to al Qaeda’s website, just because you’re interested in knowing about al Qaeda, I think it’s pretty safe to say that your Web browsing habits will be tracked from now on.”
—Shari Steele, president of the Electronic Frontier Foundation

“Girls in bars playing Pong—it was a good way to get to know people.”
—Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari

“Are we going to have computing as part of our bodies, replacing or helping in human vision or thinking or whatever? I don’t know. I hope so.”
—Dadi Perlmutter, Intel, godfather of the modern processor

“Yes, we do have a very close relationship. For a couple, sex is an intimate act, but not as intimate as linking your nervous systems together.”
—Prof. Kevin Warwick, world’s first cyborg

“From the microscopic to the heavens, all will be sensed, networked, and stored. This is not a forty-year-out wild guess. This is a decade-out sure bet. And I don’t lose many bets.”
—Gordon Bell, minicomputer pioneer &“life logging” researcher

For a decade, globally syndicated tech journalist William Van Winkle interviewed many of the brightest and most influential innovators in modern computing and Web development. Join him as he takes you inside the minds of a dozen of his career’s best Q&A sessions, now revisited and greatly expanded with updates and previously unpublished content.

See what makes these technology trailblazers tick, what advice they offer, and where they believe we’re all headed.