Spencer Reiss writes about new media, alternative energy and commercial space travel for San Francisco-based Wired magazine. He also directs the program for the annual Monaco Media Forum, as well for the Abu Dhabi Media Summit, debuting March 2010. A former Newsweek correspondent in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America, he believes absolutely that technology of all kinds is the planet's best hope for a brighter future. Change is good. For his part he enjoys living with his wife, the photographer Anne Day, and three almost perfect children in the delightful woods of Salisbury, Connecticut USA.