Keynote Speaker - Jamais Cascio, WorldChanging.com

Jamais Cascio is the co-founder of and Senior Contributing Editor for WorldChanging.com, a website dedicated to finding and calling attention to models, tools and ideas for building a "bright green" future.

Describing himself as a "freelance world-builder," Cascio specializes in the design and creation of plausible scenarios of the future, combining developments in science, technology, social trends, and political systems. He has done such work for a wide variety of clients, including major computer firms, non-profit organizations, government agencies, toy and game companies, and television producers. His scenarios focus on the relationships between disparate forces and systems, and the importance of long-term, systemic thinking, particularly regarding the environment and economic development.

Cascio has spoken in fora as diverse as an Italian technology conference ("FuturShow 3000"), public radio (debating with Bill Joy about the future path of technology), and a retreat for energy industry strategic planners. His essays about the collision of technology and society have appeared in a variety of mainstream publications, including Wired, Salon and Time. Cascio designed several well-received science fiction game settings, and has worked on a number of television and film projects.

A Participatory Panopticon? (April 8, 2004)
The Participatory Panopticon vs. the Pentagon (May 10, 2004) 
Personal Panopticons, Only $400 (June 11, 2004) [a short piece on how these technologies are here in their early stages] 
Participatory Telemedicine (February 22, 2005) 
The Bright Green Panopticon (February 25, 2005)

Update: cleaned up formatting, and minor corrections