Brad Templeton

Chairman of the Board, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Brad Templeton is the founder and publisher of ClariNet Communications Corp., the world's first ever .com company, one of the internet's first and for a long time largest electronic newspaper. He is the Chairman of the Board of the EFF, a leading civil rights foundation in the online world protecting liberties and privacy in cyberspace. His views on the necessity of organizations like the EFF are contained in the document "How I supported the EFF and changed the world." He is also on the board of the Foresight Nanotech Institute, the advocacy group for molecular nanotechnology.

For the 2007 Foresight Vision Weekend, he gave a brief talk on the responsibilities of living in revolutionary times. Unlike people in the 19th century living during the Industrial Revolution, we are more likely to recognize the enormity of the implications of emerging technologies including nanotech, biotech and AI. More recently he has spoken at the Convergence unconference in November of 2008 and the BIL unconference in February of 2009 on the tremendous potential benefits--economically, environmentally, and in preventing deaths--of robotic cars replacing manned vehicles. His research on the subject is online at: Where Robot Cars (Robocars) Will Really Take Us.

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Robot Cars Will Save the Planet

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2009 BIL, The Evils of Cloud Computing
2007, Brad Templeton, Foresight Vision Weekend
Centralization of Web 2.0

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2007 Foresight Vision Weekend, Foresight and Opportunity