Dr. David Brin USA. David Brin, Ph.D, has a triple career as scientist, public speaker, and author. Several of his novels, such as The Postman and The Uplift War, have been New York Tims Bestsellers and won multiple Hugo, Nebula and American Library Association awards. His 1989 ecological thriller, Earth, foreshadowed global warming and near-future trends like the World Wide Web. A 1997 movie, directed by Kevin Costner, was loosely based on Brin's novel The Postman. Another novel, Startide Rising, has been sold to Paramount Pictures. In his 1998 non-fiction book - The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom? - Brin deals with a range of unexpected threats and opportunities facing our wired society in the electronic age. As a speaker he shares unique and often humorous insights to the way technology may affect our human future. David Brin was a fellow at the California Space Institute and at the Jet Propulsion Lab, studying spacecraft design, cometary physics, and analyses of the likelihhod of life in the universe. He now lives in San Diego County with his wife, three children, and a hundred very demanding trees.
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