Derren Brown is an artist with a cool website. However, his images are noticably copyrighted, so I'd advise against using them on the Grid. He might not like that. Welcome to www.DerrenBrown.co.uk <www.derrenbrown.co.uk>

Bruce Sterling is a futurist, net activist and cyberpunk SF author. Engaged: Conference: inkwell.vue, Topic 171 <engaged.well.com>

Neal Stephenson is a cyberpunk SF author. His novel _Snow Crash_ is sacred screed in geek circles.

Douglas R. Hofstadter is a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence. He's a thinker and a philosopher. Do a Google search on this dude. I did, and intend to investigate further.