What is Visions for Tomorrow?
Joel Garreau
Joel Garreau-
- Joel Garreau is a reporter and editor at The Washington Post, a principal of The Garreau Group and published author.
- Mr. Garreau’s book, “Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies - and What It Means to Be Human,” takes a spellbinding look at altering human nature. In the book he posits that for hundreds of millennia, our technologies have been aimed at altering our environment in the fashion of fire, agriculture, or space travel. Now, as Garreau suggests, we are increasingly aiming inward, at modifying our minds, memories, metabolisms, personalities and progeny.
- Garreau’s book, “The Nine Nations of North America,” won critical acclaim and was embraced by readers, marketers, political operatives and academics alike, establishing Mr. Garreau as one of the world’s most prominent cultural demographers.
- In “Edge City: Life on the New Frontier,” termed a “groundbreaking” work by The New York Times, Garreau explains how cities of the 21st century are not the 19th century versions like downtown Chicago or Philadelphia, but rather, they are enormous new centers of commerce like California’s Silicon Valley and the Route 128 corridor outside Boston, that are shaped by industries that have sprung up in the last 30 years.
- Mr. Garreau has served as a senior fellow at the University of California at Berkeley and George Mason University, and is a member of Global Business Network, the pioneering scenario-planning organization.