He has also been a participant in discussions at the Philanthropy Roundtable and other groups seeking innovative problem solving approaches.īrin has a very active side career in public speaking and consultation. He serves on the advisory board of NASA's Innovative and Advanced Concepts group and frequently does futurist consulting for corporations and government agencies.īrin consults and speaks for a wide variety of groups interested in the future, ranging from Defense Department agencies and the CIA to Procter & Gamble, SAP, Google and other major corporations. Clarke Center for Human Imagination (UCSD).
At the University of California, San Diego, he earned a Master of Science in applied physics in 1978 and a Doctor of Philosophy in space science in 1981.īrin is a 2010 fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. In 1973, David Brin graduated from the California Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science in astrophysics. His grandfather was drafted into the Russian army and fought in the Russian-Japanese War of 1905. His ancestors come from Poland, from the area around Konin. David Brin's nonfiction book The Transparent Society won the Freedom of Speech Award of the American Library Association and the McGannon Communication Award.īrin was born in Glendale, California in 1950.
His Campbell Award winning novel The Postman was adapted as a feature film and starred Kevin Costner in 1997. He has received the Hugo, Locus, Campbell and Nebula Awards. Glen David Brin (born October 6, 1950) is an American scientist and award-winning author of science fiction.
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