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.
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.
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.
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