Hanson is associate professor of economics at George Mason University, and research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. He has a doctorate in social science from Caltech, master’s degrees in physics and philosophy from the University of Chicago, and nine years experience as a research programmer, at Lockheed and NASA.

Yann Minh is one of the first French artists who built immersive multimedia installations. Born in 1957, he has been a video, multimedia, digital and new media artist since 1979. He is also a writer of cyberpunk science fiction, and founder of the Noonautes, a neo-cyberpunk movement. A child of television, comic strips and science fiction, his work is inspired by Nam June Paik, Giger, Druillet, Moebius, Philip K. Dick and Marshall McLuhan.