PAUL SAFFO is Silicon Valley's resident intellectual. He is a forecaster and essayist with over two decades of experience exploring long-term technological change and its practical impact on business and society.
He is a consulting associate professor at Stanford University and chairs the Future Studies and Forecasting track at Singularity University. Saffo is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and a fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. He serves on a variety of not-for-profit boards including the Long Now Foundation, and the Bay Area Council Economic Institute.
Saffo's essays have appeared in a wide range of publications including The Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Foreign Policy, Wired, The Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, The New York Times, and the Washington Post.