Steve Talbott is a Senior Researcher at The Nature Institute in Ghent, New York. He produces the Institute’s NetFuture newsletter, which was termed an “undiscovered national treasure” in a New York Times feature story on his work. His book, The Future Does Not Compute: Transcending the Machines in Our Midst, (O’Reilly, 1995) was named one of the “Outstanding Books of 1996” by the academic library journal, Choice.