Joel Garreau was a 2010 Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow with the Fellows Program at New America, during which he midwifed the New America/Arizona State University partnership, and co-founded Future Tense. A former long-time staff writer and editor at the Washington Post, he is now the Professor of Culture, Values and Emerging Technologies, Emeritus College, ASU. Garreau's books include Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies, and What It Means to Be Human; Edge City: Life on the New Frontier; and The Nine Nations of North America. He has served as a fellow at Cambridge University, Oxford University, the University of California at Berkeley, and George Mason University, and was a long-time member of Global Business Network, the pioneering scenario-planning organization. He is principal of The Garreau Group, and the troll of a small forest in the foothills of Virginia’s Blue Ridge.
