Davide Lo Vetere is an Italian author and futurist focusing on the frontiers of human intelligence, culture and society, and on the rediscovery of human nature. He has introduced the concept of Authenticity as the essential catalyst in the evolution of humanity, and is using it to define new standards of intellectual, social and spiritual progress. He is the proponent of Interaction Theory, a new theory of knowledge based on mathematical models of consciousness that generalizes modern rational thought, its methods of inquiry, and our understanding of reality, with profound implications for the way we define and advance science, education and communications. He holds a BS/MS in Information Engineering from the University of Padua, Italy, and lives in Dublin, Ireland.