Joel Garreau

Joel Garreau (born 1948) is an American journalist, scholar and author of Radical Evolution, Edge City and The Nine Nations of North America.

In 2010, Garreau became the Lincoln Professor of Law, Culture and Values at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University.

Garreau is also an affiliated faculty member in the ASU Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes (CSPO). He is also a Future Tense fellow at The New America Foundation in Washington, D.C. as well as co-director of the Arizona State University–New American Foundation partnership. He has served as a fellow at Cambridge University, the University of California at Berkeley and George Mason University, is an affiliate of The Institute for Science, Innovation and Society at Oxford, and is a Science Journalism Laureate at Purdue. He is a member of Global Business Network. Previously, he was a reporter and editor at The Washington Post.

Garreau is also a principal of The Garreau Group, a Virginia-based consulting company that focuses on futurist theory and analysis.

Major publications

His books and articles include:

• The Nine Nations of North America. Houghton Mifflin, 1981. ISBN 0-395-29124-0.
• Edge City: Life on the New Frontier. Doubleday, 1991. ISBN 0-385-26249-3.
• Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies – And What It Means to Be Human. Doubleday, 2005 ISBN 0-385-50965-0.

See also

• Transhumanism
• Urban planning
• Maes–Garreau law

External links

• Joel Garreau's web site
• Edge City publisher's review
• Profile at KurzweilAI
• Profile at New America Foundation
• Profile at Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
• Homepage for the Future Tense partnership
• Interview with Joel Garreau on WorldChanging