Nana Naisbitt

Biography

Nana Naisbitt is the founder of the Pinhead Institute and served as its executive director until December 2006. Naisbitt now is the executive director of a Pinhead partner organization, the Telluride Science Research Center. Naisbitt specializes in interpreting science and technology for a lay audience. She has been named a "Smithsonian Research Collaborator" for her writings on natural history and is a member of the Encyclopedia of Life Steering Committee formed by the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in 2004.

With her father John Naisbitt and Douglas Philips, she wrote High Tech High Touch (Broadway Books, 1999), which was translated into twelve languages. She has appeared on the Leher News Hour, the BBC World Service, and NPR among other broadcasters, and has spoken at venues throughout the world including the Smithsonian Institution, California Academy of Sciences, Peking University, 92nd Street Y, the National University in Taiwan, and the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco.

In June of 2000, Naisbitt wrote "Will low tech replace high tech?" for TIME magazine's five part series, "Visions 21," which included articles by leaders and scholars Stephen J. Gould, Raymond Kurzweil, Bill Gates, and Freeman Dyson. In 1999, Fast Company selected her as one of 21 "thought leaders offering compelling ideas for the 21st century" along with Bob Pittman, Craig Venter, and others.

She partnered with the California Academy of Sciences to produce a public forum, in February 2002, to help frame the scientific, ethical, and philosophical debates surrounding emerging genetic technologies. Naisbitt designed the program and moderated it with panelists Dr. Rodney Brooks, Dr. Nina Jablonski, Dr. Robert Lanza, and Dr. Thomas Okarma. In May 2000, she designed and moderated a forum, entitled "Human Genome Human Being," in Beijing, China, in cooperation with Peking University and the Link Foundation.

Naisbitt is active in the Telluride community, along with her three children. She is President of Friends of the Library, a member of the Robin Magee Memorial Committee and serves on the Telluride Ecology Commission. She received her BA from University of Chicago in 1984.

In the news:

"Nana Naisbitt to Lead Telluride Science Research Center," Telluride Watch, Dec. 22, 2006

http://www.telluridewatch.com/archive_news/2006/december/122206/tsrc.htm

Contact

Telluride Science Research Center

P.O. Box 2429
Telluride, CO 81435
970.728.0004
info@telluridescience.org

Telluride , Colorado
December 2006