John Clippinger
Senior Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Harvard Law School

    John Clippinger has a long involvement in the intersection of technologies, markets and social and political institutions. He has been researching and writing about how discoveries in the new sciences such as the neuro-sciences, complexity sciences and evolutionary biology and sociology are transforming our understanding of Human Nature, specifically, the role of trust, reputation, social emotions, and self organization in forming effective forms of social and economic exchange. He is co-founder of the Open Source movement, Social Physics, to develop an open peer-to-peer platform/browser for the formation and governance of self-organizing social networks. He has been a consultant on Network Centric Warfare (NCW) and edge organization to the Command and Control Research Program (CCRP) in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Networks, Information and Integration). Previously, he was CEO of Context Media LLC, a knowledge management software and services company and director, intellectual capital, at Coopers & Lybrand (now Price Waterhouse Coopers). He is author and editor of the book, “The Biology of Business: Decoding the Natural Laws of Enterprise.” He has served as an advisor to the Department of State, FCC, OTA, and the White House.