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Official Website: <a href="http://www.foresight.org/">http://www.foresight.org/</a> Location: <a href="/geo/649/000069442/" class=proflink>Palo Alto, CA</a> Founding Date: 1986<table border=1 class="sortable bordered" id="sort_actors"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/058/000023986/">Stewart Brand</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Dec-1938</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Founder, Whole Earth Catalog</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/582/000086324/">Peter Diamandis</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-May-1961</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Chairman of the X-Prize Foundation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/577/000023508/">K. Eric Drexler</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Apr-1955</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Nanotechnology primer Engines of Creation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/131/000026053/">Doug Engelbart</a></td> <td><center>Computer Programmer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Jan-1925</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Jul-2013</tt></td> <td>Pioneer of human-computer interaction</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/469/000026391/">John Gilmore</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>Aug-1955</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Cofounder: EFF, Cypherpunks</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/101/000032005/">Ray Kurzweil</a></td> <td><center>Inventor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Feb-1948</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Age of Spiritual Machines</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/145/000026067/">Lawrence Lessig</a></td> <td><center>Attorney</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Jun-1961</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Constitutional and internet law</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/933/000031840/">Marvin Minsky</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Aug-1927</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Father of Artificial Intelligence</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/405/000171889/">Brad Templeton</a></td> <td><center>Computer Programmer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Apr-1960</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Chairman, Electronic Frontier Foundation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/388/000171872/">James Von Ehr</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1950</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Nanotech entrepreneur</td> </tr> </table> Do you know something we don't? <a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=134966" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a> Copyright ©2016 Soylent Communications </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"><div class="contentf"><center><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a> <a style="color: #0000ff" href="http://mapper.nndb.com/maps/357/000000357/"><img src="http://mapper.nndb.com/t/357/357/s357.jpg" width=128> The Grey Lady</a> Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.</center></div> <div class="contentf"><center>BibliographiesNNDB has added thousands of bibliographies for people, organizations, schools, and general topics, listing more than 50,000 books and 120,000 other kinds of references. 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