Howard Rheingold is a man who has seemed to find himself with the advent of networked communities. He is a writer who helped launch HotWired and now does a whole bunch of stuff including build virtual communities professionally.

He's written a book Tools For Thought which is, to some extent, about using computers as mind amplifiers so it includes a great deal of stuff that is related to this website. He has a website full of info: http://www.rheingold.com.