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Great Thinkers and Visionaries


This is a list of people whose ideas on how and where the world is - and should be - evolving, may be of interest to those who want to understand the frontier of human thought, at least according to my opinion. Originally I created it to give credit to people who influenced my ideas but as it often happens the project took a life of its own. Please enjoy these resources. It would be great if you could support this site or help me improve it. Now you can also take part in the discussions on the Visionaries mailing list or on the Delphi Thinkers Forum
I apologize if my selection of thinkers is not sufficiently balanced. In Russia, reading most of them could get me into Big Trouble. I hope to fix these gaps now - with your help.
You may also want to take part in the efforts that should lead to distribution of visionary ideas based on their merits rather then cute facade or interests of social power structures.
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Douglas Hofstadter Douglas Hofstadter
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Daniel Dennett Daniel Dennett
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Andrey Kolmogorov Andrey Kolmogorov
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Albert Einstein Albert Einstein
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Isaac Newton Isaac Newton
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Natasha Natasha Vita More
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Leonardo Da Vinci Leonardo Da Vinci
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Stephen Hawking Stephen Hawking
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Terence McKenna Terence McKenna
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Robert Anton Wilson Robert Anton Wilson
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Robert A. Heinlein Robert A. Heinlein
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Bruce Sterling Bruce Sterling
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Arthur C. Clarke Arthur C. Clarke
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Alvin Toffler Alvin Toffler
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Ayn Rand Ayn Rand
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Isaac Asimov Isaac Asimov
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John McCarthy John McCarthy
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Robin Hanson Robin Hanson
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Timothy Leary Timothy Leary
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Peter Russell Peter Russell
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Vernor Vinge Vernor Vinge
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Buckminster Fuller Buckminster Fuller
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Marvin Minsky Marvin Minsky
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Linus Pauling Linus Pauling
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Hans Moravec Hans Moravec
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Francis Heylighen Francis Heylighen
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Sasha Chislenko Alexander Chislenko
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Stanislaw Lem Stanislaw Lem
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George Gilder George Gilder
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Eric Drexler Eric Drexler
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Howard Bloom Howard Bloom
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Stuart Kauffman Stuart Kauffman
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Richard Dawkins Richard Dawkins
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Kevin Kelly Kevin Kelly
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Krishnamurti U.G. Krishnamurti
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Ilya Prigogine Ilya Prigogine
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Carl Sagan Carl Sagan
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Max More Max More
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Richard Feynman Richard Feynman
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Marshall McLuhan Marshall McLuhan
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Friedrich Hayek Friedrich Hayek
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Alan Turing Alan Turing
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Galileo Galilei Galileo Galilei
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Nicholas Copernicus Nicholas Copernicus
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Charles Darwin Charles Darwin
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Rupert Sheldrake Rupert Sheldrake
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Teilhard de Chardin Teilhard de Chardin
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Hypatia Hypatia
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Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Vladimir Vernadsky
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Christian de Duve Christian de Duve
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Kurt Goedel Kurt Gödel
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Candidates to the list

Here are some people I am considering adding to the list of Thinkers, while I am learning more about their work and the impact of their ideas and activities, and trying to find time to include them, and their books, into the list. I would probably have to redesign the site (see ideas below) before I expand it any further, as this page already takes too long to load.

Visionary Scientists

Modern Visionary Technocrats

Visionary Philosophers

Visionary Leaders and Activists

Visionary Writers

Visionary Inventors

Also (partly classified, advice welcome)

Famous Non-visionaries

I am opening this section to answer multiple requests to include some people that I subbornly refuse to consider visionaries.
If you have good arguments to the contrary, I'd gladly listen to them.

Villains and Kooks

There are many people wose ideas about the future are reasonable or respected but who are misguided about the subjects of methods of their visions.
Even though they may not lead to constructive results, erroneous visions deserve a special study.
Here is a modest initial selection:
If you have any opinion on these people and URLs of their pages, or have other candidates who you think should be listed here, please mail them to me! (I do not promise to include them, however. They may be wonderful people, but I may not understand - or agree with - their work, or think that they belong more to Great Scientists or Activists than Visionaries, etc.)

Please do not suggest me to represent more women or other physiological groups. This is a page about minds, not flesh! If you have a candidate, please mail me the name, URL, and why you think the ideas of this person are so crucial for understanding the progress of the Universe today.

The selection process is getting more and more difficult for me, as the amount of suggestions I receive has outgrown both my knowledge of important people and the amount of "free" time I can devote to maintaining this page.

I am working on a formal set of criteria for accepting and classifying nominations, and would like to turn this page - already with about 60,000 visitors a year - can turn into an objective public resource. For that, I would need assistance and funding. Please let me know if you can help in any way. Meanwhile, you can at least click on a few ads on this site, to add a few cents to its development.
If you are interested please read the the draft proposal for the Thinkers site development and suggest your comments.

I have absolutely no time to answer criticisms of the current state of the site coming from people who haven't read the proposal, and are not suggesting any help. Sorry.

Other Lists of Great people

o Halcyon List of thinkers
o Estimated IQs of some of the greatest geniuses
o InforSeek list of Internet Celebrities
o Technoprophets
o Celebrities in Cognitive Science
o Dave Krieger's list of Exceptional people
o Warped People page
o Glass Bead Game - Biographies of great people
o Eric's Treasure Trove of Scientific Biography
o Scientists: biographies
o UTNE Reader list of Visionaries They can't tell the difference between thinkers, dreamers, executives, and social activists, and the choice is somewhat mainstream (not extreme like mine ;-) ) but some people there are interesting.
o Great Mathematicians
o Prominent Anarchists and Left-Libertarians
o Great Writers and Poets
o Prominent sociologists
o Great Canadian Scientists
oCelebrity Atheist List and Famous Dead Non-theists - people who have advocated living life without deference to a higher power.
o Major Western Philosophers

Some people whose example you may not want to follow:

Kooks museumKooks museum


The best way to understand great thinkers is to join them!
If you are an aspiring visionary, you may find the following Web resources useful:

Self-Publishing solution from BookNooks
>H Anders Transhuman Page
Nobel Nobel Foundation, Nobel Prize Internet Archive
WFSGBCWorld Future Society (Greater Boston Chapter)
[IMAGE] Frontier Organizations on the Web
Best mailing lists on the Net
Cafe The Great Books of Western Civilization Cafe

Events Upcoming visionary events



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