Thomas Lombardo, Ph.D. is the Director of the Center for Future Consciousness, Editor of Future Consciousness Insights, Professor Emeritus and Retired Faculty Chair of Psychology, Philosophy, and the Future at Rio Salado College, and past Director of The Wisdom Page. He is an awarded Fellow and Executive Board member of the World Futures Studies Federation. He has published thirteen books and over sixty articles and has given over a hundred professional presentations and online video webinars on many futurist topics, including wisdom and the future of education; the future of consciousness and our consciousness of the future; dystopian and utopian thought; theories of the future; and the evolution of science fiction. Presently he lives with his wife Jeanne in the Phoenix, Arizona metropolitan area.