Future Visions: Original Science Fiction Inspired by Microsoft

Dr. David Brin is a New York Times best-selling author, a physicist, a futurist, and an inventor. His background in astrophysics and space science has given him a high degree of prescience: His books have predicted global warming, cyberwarfare, and the World Wide Web. Many of Brin’s works take place within his Uplift universe and have won some of science fiction’s top awards, including 1983’s Hugo and Nebula winner Startide Rising and The Uplift War, which won the Hugo and Locus Awards for Best Novel in 1987. Brin’s postapocalyptic novel The Postman was adapted as a 1997 feature film of the same name, and his nonfiction book The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom? won the American Library Association’s Eli M. Oboler Memorial Award for the best published work in the area of intellectual freedom in 2000. He appears on numerous popular-science shows and consults widely for corporations, universities, and government agencies. Since 2010, Brin has served as an external advisor for NASA’s Innovative and Advanced Concepts group, and he helped establish the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination at the University of California at San Diego in 2013.