Transition Generation

David Brin is a scientist, bestselling author, and tech-futurist. His novels include Earth (1990), The Postman (1985, filmed in 1997), and Hugo Award winners Startide Rising (1983) and The Uplift War (1987). A leading commentator and speaker on modern trends, his nonfiction book The Transparent Society (1998) won the Freedom of Speech Award of the American Library Association.

• Sharing the Fire

  Written by Ed Finn
  Director, Assistant Professor

  When Thomas Jefferson wrote about the American imagination, he chose the metaphor of fire. Ideas should flow like light in the darkness, “as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.” Jefferson was one of the original American dreamers, a man with many faults but also an explosive mix of creativity and ambition.

• Human Flying Suit

  Wingsuits allow the human body to turn into a curved wing, producting life and providing the experience of flight.

• Science and Science Fiction

  Written by Jim Bell
  President of The Planetary Society, Professor at Arizona State University’s School of Earth and Space Exploration

  A lot of us who do science non-fiction work are inspired by science fiction. I grew up watching the original Star Trek, in the 1960s, and that vision of people working together towards a common goal and achieving something bigger than themselves resonates with me. The science fiction stories that inspire me focus on the […]