 Three years before production began, Steven Spielberg (I) (qv)  assembled a team of sixteen future experts in Santa Monica to  brainstorm out the year 2054 for him. This team included  Neil Gershenfeld (qv), professor at the Media Lab at MIT;  Shaun Jones (II) (qv), director of biomedical research at DARPA  (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency);  William Mitchell (IV) (qv), dean of the school of architecture at  MIT; Peter Calthorpe (qv), the New Urbanism evangelist;  Jaron Lanier (qv), one of the inventors of virtual reality  technology; Douglas Coupland (qv), author and commentator;  Stewart Brand (qv), author, scientist and co