Space Conference Speaker

David Brin

Astrophysicist and Novelist, Caltech Distinguished Alumnus

David Brin is a scientist, tech speaker/consultant, and author. His novels about our survival and opportunities in the near future include EARTH and Existence. A film by Kevin Costner was based on The Postman. His 16 novels, including NY Times Bestsellers and Hugo Award winners, have been translated into more than twenty languages. EARTH foreshadowed global warming, cyberwarfare and the world wide web.

Speaking and advising about how science, technology and evolving values will affect our onrushing future, David has keynoted for IBM, Google, Procter & Gamble, SAP, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Price-Waterhouse, the Mauldin Group and Casey Research, all the way to think-tanks, Homeland Security and the CIA.

A Caltech Distinguished Alumnus and astrophysicist, Dr. Brin spent a decade advising NASA’s Innovative & Advanced Concepts program (NIAC). He appears frequently on shows such as Nova and The Universe and Life After People. His first non-fiction book, The Transparent Society, won the Freedom of Speech Award.  David’s second nonfiction book was Through Stranger Eyes, the third is Polemical Judo, and his fourth is VIVID TOMORROWS: Science Fiction and Hollywood (2021).  His wide-ranging new book on AI, ailien minds, is about  raising these new entities to be good citizens.


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Jim Plaxco

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Erick Villa

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Fredrick Jenet

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