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Named one of the “world’s ten most influential intellectuals” by MIT, Douglas Rushkoff is an author and documentarian who studies human autonomy in a digital age. His twenty books include the just-published Team Human, based on his podcast, as well as the bestsellers Present Shock, Throwing Rocks and the Google Bus, Program or Be Programmed, Life Inc, and Media Virus. He also made the PBS Frontline documentaries Generation Like, The Persuaders, and Merchants of Cool. His book Coercion won the Marshall McLuhan Award, and the Media Ecology Association honored him with the first Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity.

Rushkoff’s work explores how different technological environments change our relationship to narrative, money, power, and one another. He coined such concepts as “viral media,” “screenagers,” and “social currency,” and has been a leading voice for applying digital media toward social and economic justice. He a research fellow of the Institute for the Future, and founder of the Laboratory for Digital Humanism at CUNY/Queens, where he is a Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics. He is a columnist for Medium, and his novels and comics, Ecstasy Club, A.D.D, and Aleister & Adolf, are all being developed for the screen.

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, an economist, historian, and public intellectual, has written on topics ranging from economics and statistics to ethics and theology. Bourgeois Equality (2016) was the third in a trilogy (2006, 2010) showing that liberty made for enrichment. Why Liberalism Works (2019) applied her startling historical ad economic findings to politics.

Alexander Bard is a philosopher, futurologist, and political and spiritual activist, based in Stockholm, Sweden. He is the author of five books: "The Netocrats, "The Global Empire", "The Body Machines", "Syntheism - Creating God in The Internet Age" and "Digital Libido - Sex, Power and Violence in The Network Society" with his co-writer Jan Söderqvist. Bard is a radical process philosopher, merging Hegel and Nietzsche with Whitehead and Deleuze, using humanity as the constant and technology as the variable while working toward the deepest possible understanding of human history, contemporary society, and the intensely technology-driven future that humanity is facing. Bard has also enjoyed a highly successful 25-year-career as a producer and artist in the international music industry, followed by ten years as a tough love, reality-checking judge on TV shows "Swedish Idol" and "Sweden's Got Talent", and is an outspoken and provocative You Tube and Twitter celebrity.

Researches and teaches at the University of Melbourne and is the author, co-author or editor of numerous monographs and books on topics such as time, new media theory, politics and the philosophy of media. His recent works include Uncontained: Digital Connection and the Experience of Time (2019) and The Information Society: Cyber Dreams and Digital Nightmares (2017). Since 2009 he has been Editor-in-Chief of the journal Time & Society.

Chad and Nadia became the world’s first seasteaders when they began living in a floating home 13 nautical miles from the coast of Thailand in the open ocean. That is, until the Thai navy decided that their floating home was a threat to Thailand’s national sovereignty and threatened Chad and Nadia with a death sentence if caught.

After escaping Thailand and moving to Panama they are moving forward with plans to build floating homes off of the Caribbean coast of Panama, in a country that actually understands the economic benefits of having a completely new industry.

Paul Rosenberg is the author of the Free-Man's Perspective newsletter and the co-founder of Cryptohippie. He is also the author of A Lodging of Wayfaring Men, Production Versus Plunder and The Breaking Dawn. He is a co-author of The New Age of Intelligence.