SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Innovators from the worlds of
business, art, technology, and society will feast on a "banquet of ideas" at
Reason magazine's 2nd Annual Dynamic Visions Conference on Presidents' Day
Weekend (February 19 - 21, 2000) at the Santa Clara Marriott in Santa Clara,
California.
Unlike ordinary business or policy conferences, the Dynamic Visions
Conference offers entrepreneurial thinkers from a variety of backgrounds a
chance to cross-fertilize, discover new ideas, and gain fresh insights into
their professions, their day-to-day lives, and their futures. This unusual
event, described by one of last year's attendees as a "banquet of ideas," was
founded by Reason editor Virginia Postrel, author of "The Future and Its
Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress."
This year's program, "On the Verge: Creative Mixing on the Frontiers of
Business, Society, Art, and Technology," features speakers and participants
from biology, technology, management, ecology, media, public policy,
education, design and other fields who are anxious to venture beyond the
traditional boundaries of their own disciplines.
The conference program and registration information are available at
http://www.reason.com/dynamic/dynamic2000.html or by calling Erica Mannard at
310-391-2245.
Confirmed speakers and their topics include:
-- Jhane Barnes, designer - "Mathematics, Computers, and the Art of
Textile Design"
-- Gregory Benford, UC-Irvine astrophysicist and author of Timescape, Deep
Time, and Cosm - "Thinking Long in the Millennium"
-- Daniel Botkin, UC-Santa Barbara ecologist, president, Center for the
Study of the Environment, author of Discordant Harmonies - "The Future
of Nature: How to Have Both Civilization and Nature in the 21st
Century"
-- Charles Paul Freund, senior editor, Reason, "Dark Verge? The Case of
Vienna 1900"
-- Neil Gershenfeld, leader, physics and media group, MIT Media Lab,
author, When Things Start to Think - "Things that Think"
-- Nick Gillespie, executive editor, Reason - "Popular Culture on the
Verge"
-- Lisa Graham Keegan, Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction -
"Innovations in Education"
-- Grant McCracken, Harvard Business School, author, Plenitude and Culture
and Consumption, "Verge of Verges: Sir Francis Bacon at the Gates of
Gibraltar"
-- Christena Nippert-Eng, sociologist, Illinois Institute of Technology,
author, Home and Work "Home and Work: Drawing the Boundaries"
-- Dan Pink, Fast Company contributor - "Free Agent Nation"
-- Steven Postrel, UC-Irvine Graduate School of Management -"The Geek and
the Dilettante: Sharing Knowledge Across Specialities"
-- Virginia Postrel, editor, Reason, author, The Future and Its Enemies,
"On the Verge: Exploring the Frontiers of Creative Encounter"
-- Adam Clayton Powell III, vice president, technology and programs, The
Freedom Forum - "Culture and Collision"
-- Richard Rodriguez, author, Days of Obligation and Hunger of Memory -
"Some Thoughts on the Burrito and the Browning of America"
-- Lynn Scarlett, executive director, Reason Public Policy Institute -
"Can Industry Save the Planet? The Rise of Industrial Ecology"
-- Michael Schrage, columnist, Fortune, senior associate, MIT Media Lab,
author, No More Teams! and Serious Play - "Serious Play"
-- Robert Zubrin, author of The Case for Mars - "Mars Direct: Humans to
the Red Planet within a Decade"
Contact: Mike Alissi, Reason, 203-407-0114 or malissi@reason.com
SOURCE Reason Magazine
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