Perspectives on how the future might come out

Science Fiction

Charles Stross
John Scalzi
Jo Walton
Alistair Reynolds
Richard Morgan
Iain Banks (aka Iain M Banks)
Vernor Vinge
Neal Stephenson
William Gibson
Ann Leckie

Fantasy

Terry Pratchett
Neil Gaiman

Was reminded that Marc Andreesen posted his SF author list in 2007- some of the authors listed above were new to me then.