Christine Peterson

Christine L. Peterson is an American forecaster, and the co-founder of Foresight Institute. She is credited with suggesting the term "open source" when used in connection with software.
Peterson holds a bachelor's degree in chemistry from MIT. She is signed up for cryopreservation with the Alcor Life Extension Foundation, since the mid-1980s.

Works

Books

In 1991 she coauthored Unbounding the Future: the Nanotechnology Revolution with Gayle Pergamit and Eric Drexler, which sketches nanotechnology's potential environmental and medical benefits as well as possible abuses. In 1997 she coauthored Leaping the Abyss: Putting Group Genius to Work with Gayle Pergamit.

Articles

"Thinking Longer Term about Technology", 2009.