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David Brin is an astrophysicist, best-selling author, futurist, speaker, consultant, and story writer for Kevin Kostner's "The Postman". Brin's nonfiction book The Transparent Society won the American Library Association's Freedom of Speech Award for exploring 21st Century concerns about security, secrecy, accountability, and privacy. As a scientist, tech-consultant and world-known author, he speaks, advises, and writes widely on topics from national defense and homeland security to astronomy and space exploration, SETI and nanotechnology, future/prediction, creativity, and philanthropy. Urban Developer Magazine named him one of four World's Best Futurists, and he was appraised as "#1 influencer" in Onalytica's Top 100 report of Artificial Intelligence influencers, brands & publications His science fiction novels have been New York Times Bestsellers, winning multiple Hugo, Nebula and other awards. At least a dozen have been translated into more than twenty languages. They range from bold and prophetic explorations of our near-future to Brin's Uplift series, envisioning galactic issues of sapience and destiny and star-faring dolphins.

He shares his thoughts on science & the future of humanity on his popular blog- Contrary Brin 

http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/

https://www.davidbrin.com 

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https://www.fantasticfiction.com/b/david-brin/ 

Trailer for EXISTENCE. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzr-DSDMkJM Essay about 2001: A Space Odyssey.  https://www.davidbrin.com/nonfiction/2001.html