Michael Rogers

One of the nations leading experts on how business and society adapt to the future, Michael Rogers is an interactive media pioneer, novelist and journalist. He now writes the popular Practical Futurist column for MSNBC.com, which reaches 23 million people a month. In early September 2006 he was named to the position of Futurist-In-Residence by The New York Times Company. He will work with the corporate R&D group advising on future trends and technologies throughout the entire company.

For ten years Rogers was vice president of The Washington Post Company's new media division, helping guide both the newspaper and its sister publication Newsweek into the new century, as well as serving as editor and general manager of Newsweek.com. Now his New York-based consultancy, Practical Futurist, works with both startups and major media companies. He is also a best-selling novelist whose fiction explores the human impact of technology. His five books have been published worldwide, optioned for film and television, and chosen by the Book of the Month Club.

After a decade as a writer for Rolling Stone , Rogers co-founded Outside magazine. He then joined Newsweek to create the magazines Technology section, covering topics ranging from Chernobyl and genetic engineering to computers and the Internet, earning numerous journalism awards for his work. In 1993 he produced the world's first CD-ROM newsmagazine for Newsweek, described in the media as a prototype for interactive television, going on to develop interactive areas on Prodigy, America Online and then a series of Internet sites including the award-winning Parents Guide to Childrens Software, which also appeared in CD-ROM and book form. In 1999 he received a patent for the bimodal spine, a multimedia storytelling technique, and is listed in Whos Who in Science and Engineering . He studied physics and creative writing at Stanford University with additional training in finance at Stanford Business Schools Executive Program.

Rogers is a frequent guest on radio and television and regularly addresses audiences worldwide, ranging from venture capitalists and corporate executives to educators, students and the general public. In 1989 he was founding chairperson of the European Technology Roundtable, an annual CEO gathering, which he continues to moderate along with the newer Asian Technology Roundtable.

During his career, Rogers has studied and written about all the key technologies driving this century; he has interviewed or worked with major business figures worldwide; and in his Practical Futurist consultancy he stays current on topics ranging from technology and demographics to management and education.

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