SPEAKERS:
(Introduction by Mark Nelson, Chairman )
Ian Tattersall, Palaeontologist, American Natural History Museum, New York
    "The Evolution of Homo Sapiens from Early Hominid Species"
Richard O'Neill, President, The Highland Forum, Bethesda, Maryland
    "The Power and Downside of Information Technologies"
Ian MacKenzie, Linguist, Head of the Defenders of British Columbia Wilderness, Vancouver, BC
    "The Intelligence of the Traditional Cultures of the Ethnosphere"
Kevin Kelly, Editor-at-Large, Wired Magazine; former editor, Co-Evolution Quarterly, San Francisco, California.
    "What Technology Wants"
Christian Rätsch, Ethnopharmacologist, Author, Hamburg, Germany
    "Accessing the Intelligence of Plants and Psycho-active Sacred Substances"
John P. Allen, FLS, Chairman, Global Ecotechnics Corp., Santa Fe, New Mexico
    "The Noosphere and the Planetary Integration of Art, Science and Enterprise"
Maria Golia, Author, Consultant, Cairo, Egypt
    "The World City and the Noosphere" (listen)
Richard Hey, Professor of Applied Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia
    "Rivers: Ecology, Economic Use and Restoration"
Antony Gormley, Sculptor, London, UK
    "Re-imagining the Human Body"
Edward Tenner, Author, Princeton, New Jersey
    "Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Law of Unintended Consequences"
Oleg Gazenko, "Space Medicine and Physiology," Director (Emeritus) Institute of Biomedical Problems, Moscow, Russia
    "The Adaptability and Evolution of the Human Organism"
Michèle Decoust and Marie Arnaud, Writer and Film Director, Paris, France
    "Dragons of the Sea: An Illustration of Emerging Intelligence"
Berndt Lötsch, Director, Natural History Museum, Vienna, Austria
     "Esthetics between Biosphere and Noosphere,"
(Summary)