Sherry Turkle is a Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT and the founding director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. She is the author of six books, including Alone Together and the New York Times bestseller Reclaiming Conversation.

Nicole Perlroth covers cybersecurity and digital espionage for The New York Times.

Erik Edstrom is the author of Un-American: A Soldier's Reckoning of our Longest War. He graduated from West Point in 2007. He was then deployed to Afghanistan, where he served as an infantry platoon leader.

Catherine Freije was a Harvard Virology Ph.D. candidate in the Sabeti lab from 2016-2020 and developed CRISPR-based technologies for diagnosing and treating RNA virus infections.

Steven Johnson is co-host of “Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer,” a four-part PBS series premiering on May 11 and the author of the companion book being published the same day by Riverhead Books. He is the author of twelve previous books, including Enemy of All Mankind, Farsighted, Where Good Ideas Come From, and The Ghost Map. He is host of the 2014 PBS series “How We Got To Now” and the podcast “American Innovations.”

Jerry Saltz is an American art critic. Since 2006, he has been senior art critic and columnist for New York magazine. Formerly the senior art critic for The Village Voice, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2018 and was nominated for the award in 2001 and 2006.

Bonnie Glaser is the director of the China Power Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

David Pogue was the New York Times weekly tech columnist from 2000 to 2013. He’s a five-time Emmy winner for his stories on CBS News Sunday Morning, a New York Times bestselling author, a five-time TED speaker, and host of 20 NOVA science specials on PBS.