Ian Pearson has been a full time futurologist for 26 years, tracking and predicting developments across a wide range of technology, business, society, politics, and the environment. He has worked in numerous branches of engineering from aeronautics to cybernetics, sustainable transport to electronic cosmetics, with more than 1,800 inventions including text messaging and the active contact lens. He has written eight books and made well over 750 TV and radio appearances. He is a chartered fellow of the British Computer Society and a fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science and the World Innovation Foundation.