Howard Rheingold: Pioneering Thinker on the Future of Technology and Society

Noted author and commentator, Howard Rheingold, has a proven record of accurate technology and social forecasting over two decades of syndicated columns, bestselling books, and pioneering online enterprises.

Now he's on to the next and biggest thing: how the marriage of mobile phone, PC, and wireless Internet is changing the way we meet, mate, entertain, govern, and conduct business.

No armchair futurist, Rheingold was founding Executive Editor of ‘Hotwired’, the first commercial webzine where the web-based discussion forum and the online banner ad were invented. He is the recipient of a 2008 MacArthur Knowledge-Networking Grant through the Foundation's Digital Media and Learning Competition.

Rheingold has made many TV appearances including Today, CNN, CBS News, NBC News, Macneill-Lehrer Report, NPR’s Fresh Air and Marketplace. He has also keynoted in a dozen countries and lectured at Harvard, MIT, Oxford, and Stanford.