Howard Rheingold is an internationally syndicated author. He is the author of the weekly Tomorrow column, author of best-sellers Virtual Reality and The Virtual Community. Mr. Rheingold is also the editor-in-chief of best-seller The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog, editor of The Whole Earth Review, and an on-line host for The Well. Mr. Rheingold has studied internet enterprises and started them. He was the founding Executive Editor of HotWired, the founder of Electric Minds. Mr. Rheingold is also a participant-observer in the design of new technologies, a pioneer, critic and forecaster of technology's impacts. Over the past twenty years, he has traveled around the world, observing and writing about emerging trends in computing, communications, and culture. He is the author of several books, among which The Virtual Community, Virtual Reality, and Smart Mob are widely accepted world wide. Mr. Rheingold has background in psychology and lives in Mill Valley, California.