David Brin Appointed as Fellow of the IEET

Scientist, best-selling author, and pundit David Brin has accepted an appointment as Fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies for 2010.

Brin, whose future-oriented novels include Earth, The Postman, and Hugo Award winners Startide Rising and The Uplift War, also is known as a leading commentator on modern technological, social, and political trends. His nonfiction book The Transparent Society won the Freedom of Speech Award from the American Library Association. Brin’s most recent novel, Kiln People, explores a fictional near future when people use cheap copies of themselves to be in two places at once. The Life Eaters—a graphic novel—explores a chilling alternative outcome of World War II.

David Brin joins an esteemed group of IEET Fellows that includes Russell Blackford, Marshall Brain, Riccardo Campa, Milan Ćirković, Aubrey de Grey, Linda Glenn, Ben Goertzel, Andy Miah, Ramez Naam, Douglas Rushkoff, Susan Schneider, and Natasha Vita-More.

More appointments to the 2010 list of Fellows are expected within the next few days.