Digital Thinking Thinkers50 founders Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove spend their time scanning the world of business ideas. Here is their selection of some of the best commentators and thinkers on matters digital. Jeremy Bailenson @stanfordVR Founding director of Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab and co-author Infinite Reality (William Morrow, 2012). Erik Brynjolfsson & Andrew McAfee @erikbryn @amcafee MIT co-authors of The Second Machine Age (Norton, 2014) and Race Against the Machine (Digital Frontier Press, 2011). Enrique Dans @edans Professor at IE Business School, blogger at enriquedans.com, one of most followed tech opinion formers. Peter Diamandis @peterdiamandis Founder X Prize Foundation, co-author of Abundance (Free Press, 2012) and Bold (Simon & Schuster, 2015), and co-founder Singularity University. Jose Esteves @jmesteves13 IE Business School professor researching hacking, egovernment and more. Umair Haque @umairh Commentator, HBR blogger, author of The Lamp and the Light (ebook, 2015). Ben Horowitz @bhorowitz Co-founder Andreessen Horowitz VC firm, blogger and author The Hard Thing About Hard Things (Harper, 2014). Salim Ismail, Michael S. Malone and Yuri van Geest @salimismail Authors of Exponential Organizations (Diversion, 2014). Ismail is an entrepreneur and former VP of Yahoo, founding executive director of Singularity University. Malone is a journalist and author; van Geest is a Dutch digital consultant and speaker. Andrew Keen @ajkeen Author of The Internet is Not the Answer (Atlantic Books, 2015), executive director of Future Cast, columnist and presenter. Nilofer Merchant @nilofer Silicon Valley-based ex-exec, author 11 Rules for Creating Value in the Social Era (HBR, 2012). Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland Director Human Dynamics Lab at MIT, author of Social Physics (Penguin, 2014). Rohit Talwar @fastfuture CEO of Fast Future, author and futurist. Editor of The Future of Business (Fast Future, 2015). Don Tapscott @dtapscott Author of Digital Capital, Wikinomics and other bestsellers including Radical Openness (TED, 2013). Jim Whitehurst @jwhitehurst Ex-Delta CEO and now CEO of Red Hat, author The Open Organization (HBR, 2015).
