Time & Bits Participants

  • Stewart Brand Founder of the Whole Earth Catalogue, cofounder of The Well, cofounder of Global Business Network, and author of How Buildings Learn [01994] and The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at MIT [01987].
  • Doug Carlston Attorney; cofounder and CEO of Broderbund Software.
  • Brian Eno British musician, music producer, and artist.
  • Danny Hillis Vice President of research and development at the Walt Disney Company, and a Disney Fellow. Deeply involved in the development of parallel processing, he was cofounder and chief scientist of Thinking Machines Corporation.
  • Brewster Kahle Inventor and founder of Wide Area Information Servers, Inc. [WAIS] which was recently acquired by America Online, and founder of the Internet Archive. Has written about Preserving the Internet.
  • Kevin Kelly Executive Editor, Wired Magazine; author of Out of Control [01994].
  • Jaron Lanier Leading computer scientist and early pioneer in the development of virtual reality technology and accomplished musician and composer.
  • John Heilemann Staff Writer for The New Yorker, where he covers Silicon Valley and the new economy. Previously he was a Correspondent for The Economist, where he covered technology and media, and National Affairs Editor for Wired.
  • Peter Lyman University Librarian, and Professor in the School of Information Management & Systems at the University of California, Berkeley. Head Librarian, UC Berkeley, co-author of background paper.
  • Howard Besser Digital archiving specialist, Adjunct Associate Professor at UC Berkeley's School of Information Management & Systems; co- author of background paper.
  • Margaret MacLean Director of Special Initiatives, Getty Conservation Institute.
  • Ben Davis Program Manager, Communications, Getty Information Institute.