WIRED's First-Ever Smart List 2008

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WIRED's First-Ever Smart List 2008
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The October 2008 issue of WIRED magazine features fifteen big thinkers that WIRED editors would like to see as advisors to the next president, on issues such as -climate change,
- energy, security
- and defense.

WIRED and the New America Foundation will host a panel discussion on Friday, October 3, 2008 from 12pm to 1:30pm at the New America Foundation, 1630 Connecticut Avenue, NW, 7th Floor in Washington, DC.

The panel will be moderated by WIRED Senior Editor and New America Foundation Fellow, Nicholas Thompson and the panel will include some of the men and women featured in

WIRED's Smart List: Robert Dalrymple, Civil Engineering,
Professor Johns Hopkins, Mitchell Joachim, Partner, Terreform 1,
Parag Khanna, Director, Global Governance Initiative, New America Foundation, and Montgomery McFate, Senior Social Science Adviser, Army Human Terrain System.

The WIRED Smart List includes: -0- *T Parag Khanna: Director, Global Governance Initiative, New America Foundation Embrace the Post-American Age. The US needs to wise up about which parts of the world matter and which parts don't. By tightening trade and energy ties to the rest of the hemisphere, pursuing economic innovation at home, and establishing a "diplomatic-industrial complex," the United States can continue to grow and become stronger.

David Laibson: Economics Professor, Harvard University Tweak Human Behavior to Fix the Economy. Help consumers avoid the paralysis of choice by giving them smart, basic default options, like automatic enrollment in a simple IRA.

Carolyn Porco: Planetary Scientist, NASA Use Big Robots and Big Rockets. Porco has criticized the space agency's shuttle program for years, arguing that the missions could have been accomplished more quickly and cheaply had they been launched with the kind of big rockets the US quit building after the moon shots ended.

Leroy Hood: President, Institute for Systems Biology To Rebuild Healthcare, Start With the Genome. DNA sequencing will soon cost as little as a CT scan. At that point, doctors will be able to use technology and create medicine that is predictive, preventive, personalized, and participatory.

Montgomery McFate: Senior Social Science Adviser, Army Human Terrain System Hold Your Fire! The Pentagon should deploy various kinds of social scientists to help troops learn more peaceful (and effective) ways of interacting with foreign cultures.

Peter Gleick: President, Pacific Institute Deal With the Water Crisis Now.

Among the challenges facing the next president, few are more complex - scientifically, politically, and economically - than the unsustainable demands humanity makes on fresh water supplies.

Jagdish Bhagwati: Economics Professor, Columbia University Keep Free Trade Free.

Globalization helps nations discover their unique strengths--but it needs to be balanced with compassion and a free trade in intellectual property.

Ellen Miller: Executive Director, Sunlight Foundation Make DC More Like the Web. It's all about transparency.

Ram Shriram: Venture Capitalist and Founder, Sherpalo Open Up the Airwaves. Wireless spectrum could be for the 21st century what oil was for the 20th, but it needs to be allocated strategically.

A.T. Ball: Chief of Staff, US Army, Pacific Wage Smarter War. Speed the deployment of network-centric warfare, which would put more tactical control where it belongs--on the ground with the troops.

Steve Rayner: Science and Civilization Professor, Oxford University Get Serious About Climate Change. The problem threatens our whole civilization. America needs to make a strategic choice and take the kind of bold action that's consistent with its history.

To view the entire article, please visit http://www.wired.com/wired/.

To RSVP to the panel discussion on Friday, October 3, 2008 in DC, please contact Elizabeth Wu, wu@newamerica.net and (202) 986-2700 x315 or visit http://www.newamerica.net/events/2008/think_big.

To interview the editors or writers, or for more information on the panel discussion, please contact Jenna Landry at jenna_landry@wired.com.