But the nation's leading thinker and academic, Professor Tom Devine, disagreed.
"Tools merely offer the potential for collaboration," argues Evan Rosen, a leading thinker in this field.
Don Norman has established himself as high technology's leading thinker on user interfaces and on why PCs are too complex.
It probably won't matter, though, says Paul Romer, an economist at N.Y.U. and perhaps the leading thinker of our time on economic growth.
Its chairwoman, Esther Dyson, is not a typical Internet elder: although a leading thinker about the online world, she does not suffer fools gladly.
"There's very little diversity in the legal academy among law professors," said Randy E. Barnett, a Georgetown University law professor and a leading thinker behind the challenge.
Slate | A leading thinker on the uses of the Internet says that metadata from Google and Facebook can be a public resource.
Enter Mr. Hubbard, who is presented as a leading thinker far too cozy with industries he ought to be assessing at a critical distance.
Ultimately, there is no real objectivity". Hunter went on to leave the Vancouver Sun and help merge the peace and ecology movements, becoming Greenpeace's leading thinker.
"Google makes it harder than ever to escape the past," said Lawrence Lessig, a Stanford law professor and a leading thinker on the Internet and the law.
Written by a leading thinker in the field, this highly original book offers readers something to ponder, discuss, contest and build upon.
