Authors
Meet the minds behind Stellar
James Arbib
James Arbib is a visionary thought leader, historian, investor, and philanthropist dedicated to exploring how disruptive technologies can address humanity's greatest challenges. As co-founder of RethinkX and the Stellar World initiative, James brings a unique interdisciplinary perspective that bridges technology, economics, history, and systems thinking.
With a background that includes studying history and working in finance before focusing on environmentalism and technology disruption, James has developed a holistic approach to understanding civilization-level change. He founded the philanthropic foundation Tellus Mater, which supports exploring disruptive technology's potential for solving complex global problems.
James's intellectual journey led him from traditional environmental approaches to recognizing that technological transformation offers more profound solutions than incremental reforms. His work combines rigorous analysis with bold, long-term thinking about humanity's future possibilities.
In partnership with Tony Seba, James has co-authored groundbreaking research on transportation, energy, and food system disruptions.
Tony Seba
Tony Seba is a world-renowned thought leader, author, speaker, educator, angel investor and Silicon Valley entrepreneur. He is the author of the #1 Amazon best-selling book “Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation - How Silicon Valley Will Make Oil, Nuclear, Natural Gas, Coal, Electric Utilities and Conventional Cars Obsolete by 2030” and co-author of “Stellar - A World Without Limits And How To Get There” and “Rethinking Humanity: Five Foundational Sector Disruptions, the Lifecycle of Civilizations, and the Coming Age of Freedom”.
Seba’s work focuses on the science of change, disruption and transformation - the complex patterns and dynamics of change at all scales: from technology, product and sectors to the economy and civilizations. He is the creator of the Seba Technology Disruption Framework™, which has been used to accurately explain and anticipate the ongoing disruptions of energy, transportation, artificial intelligence, robotics, information, food and agriculture. Twenty years ago, he foresaw the rise of Apple, Google, Netflix, and Salesforce. Ten years ago he accurately foresaw the rise of solar, batteries and electric vehicles. Seba co-founded both RethinkX and The Stellar World Foundation.
He has been featured in several movies and documentaries including Bloomberg’s “Forward Thinking: A Sustainable World”, 2040, SunGanges and Netflix’s “You Are What You Eat”. He is recipient of many awards including the Savvy Award, Solar Future Today’s Visionary Influencer Award, Clean Energy Action’s Sunshine Award and the inaugural ASES Solar Transformation Recognition.
He has been a keynote speaker at hundreds of global events and organizations including Google, the European Commission, Davos, UN COP21, CLSA, J.P. Morgan, Nomura, National Governors Association, Conference on World Affairs, the Global Leaders Forum, Intersolar and China EV100. He has taught thousands of entrepreneurs and corporate leaders at Stanford Continuing Studies. He has a Stanford MBA and an MIT degree in Computer Science and Engineering.
Stellar: A world beyond limits and how to get there
This book will transform how you see the world and your place in it
A bold re-examination of the past, present, and future of humanity, Stellar challenges conventional thinking and offers a vision of hope and optimism – a necessary antidote to the fear and despair that define our times.
