Film: The Meaning of the 21st Century

Interviews for the Film

To make the film I sought out the most brilliant people I could find and tried to video-tape a brain dump. Those that were particularly influential were:

• Lord Martin Rees,
• Lord Christopher Patten,
• Baroness Susan Greenfield,
• Sir Crispin Tickell,
• Lord Nicholas Stern,
• Senator John McCain,
• Rudolph Giuliani,
• Gordon Moore,
• Lester Brown,
• Ray Kurzweil,
• Freeman Dyson,
• James Lovelock,
• Norman Myers,
• Craig Venter,
• Marvin Minski,
• Rodney Brooks,
• Irwin Winkler,
• Michael Porter,
• Jane Goodall,
• Amory Lovins,
• Mamphela Ramphele,
• Robert Gagosian,
• John DeGioia,
• Nick Bostrom,
• Hernando de Soto,
• Leonard Duhl,
• Donald A.Henderson,
• Anton Rupert,
• Leonard Schlaine,
• Ester Dyson,
• Michael West,
• Clara Yu,
• Brent Jenkin,
• Bill Parker,
• Ralph Richardson,
• Sim van der Ryn,
• Hugo de Garis,
• Paul Parker,
• Serguei Popov,
• Steve Rayner,
• Pat Fitch,
• Francis Finlay,
• Angela McLean,
• William Potter,
• Randy Kritkausky,
• Jonathon Rose,
• Eddy Rubin,
• Pablo Rubinstein,
• Shane Tadjerati,
• Peter Kostmayer,
• Ed Moses.

The directors and staff of the ten Institutes of the James Martin 21st century School at the University of Oxford were extremely helpful, and especially the Director of the School, Ian Goldin.