Neil Howe is a demographer, economist, historian, lecturer and best-selling author who is recognized as an expert on the personalities of today’s generations. His books on the subject, co-authored with the late William Strauss, include Generations, 13th Gen, The Fourth Turning, Millennials Rising and Millennials and the Pop Culture. He is public policy advisor to the Blackstone Group, senior adviser to the Concord Coalition and senior associate to the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Howe earned his Bachelor of Arts at University of California Berkeley, and earned graduate degrees in economics and history from Yale University. He lives in Virginia with his wife, Simona, and children, Giorgia and Nathanial.
Jonathan Harris is an artist, storyteller and Internet anthropologist who designs systems that explore and explain the human world using artifacts left behind on the Web. The Deerfield Academy graduate was named to Creativity Magazine’s “Top 50” in 2008 and has delivered lectures to TED, Poptech, Google and Stanford. His innovative digital storytelling is exemplified in the “We Feel Fine” project, which scans blogs for snapshots of human feeling, in his recent interactive installation about online dating, “I Want You to Want Me,” which was commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and in the painstaking documentation of an Inuit whale hunt at thewhalehunt.org, in which Harris used 3,214 images in an experimental interface to recount his journey in many different ways. He lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., and documents his work on his Web site, www.number27.org.
