Alex Lightman is an internationally recognized inventor, and entrepreneur. He has been working at the bleeding edge of technology, primarily software, and specialized telecommunications since 1983. His experience includes marketing of simulation and modeling software, Internet 3D, artificial intelligence systems, and wearable computers. Lightman has made meaningful contributions to education. He has published over a million words about the future of technology and public policy. His awards, in addition to the Economist Reader"s Award, including Johnson Foundation award as ‘One of America"s 10 Most Innovative Educators’. Lightman"s insight, that 4G should be and would be both the licensed and unlicensed band and that this would create an explosion of new entrepreneurial opportunities in telecom and he sent to the White House and to the Castro administration. He is one of the few people to win an award that the entire world had a chance to give input to, as the first recipient of The Economist magazine ‘Reader"s Award’ in 2010 on behalf of 4G.