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Membership is by invitation only. A partial list of past and present academy members include:

• Scott Adams, cartoonist, Dilbert
• Serena Altschul , journalist, CBS News
• Katie Arnold, managing editor, Outside magazine
• John Perry Barlow, co-founder and vice chairman, Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Beck, musician
• Bjork, musician and actor
• David Boaz, executive vice president, Cato Institute
• David Bowie, musician
• Richard Branson, chairman and founder, Virgin Atlantic AirwaysVirgin Atlantic Airways Ltd. usually referred to as Virgin Atlantic , is an airline that operates intercontinental flights from the United Kingdom. It is the flagship organization of Richard Branson's Virgin Group, operating a fleet of wide-body aircraft
• Bernie Brillstein , founder, Brillstein-Grey Entertainment
• Phil Bronstein , executive editor, The San Francisco ChronicleThe San Francisco Chronicle the self-described "Voice of the West," is Northern California's largest newspaper. Serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area, it has a daily circulation of over 500,000. The paper has been owned by Hearst Communications, In
• Tina BrownChristina Hambley Brown or Tina Brown, (born 1953) is a British-born American magazine editor and talk-show host. She was educated at St Anne's College, Oxford. She is best known for being the editor of Vanity Fair magazine (1984-1992), The New Yorker and, commentator and CNBCCNBC Consumer News and Business Channel is a cable and satellite television news channel operated in the United States by the National Broadcasting Company (NBC). Launched on April 17, 1989, it provides business news programming from 5am to 7pm eastern ti host
• Vint CerfVinton G. Cerf is commonly referred to as the "father of the Internet". During his tenure from 1976- 1982 with the United States Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA), Cerf played a key role leading the development of Internet, senior vice president, MCIMCI Inc. is an American telecommunications company, formerly known as WorldCom. It is the second largest long-distance provider in the United States. MCI merged with WorldCom, Inc. in 1998 for US$34. 7 billion, creating MCI WorldCom. MCI WorldCom dropped
• Julia ChildJulia Child ( August 15, 1912 August 13, 2004), born Julia McWilliams was a famous American gourmet cook, author, and television personality who introduced French cuisine and cooking techniques to the American mainstream through her many cookbooks and tel, chef
• Collin Cole, president - Digital Media, frog design
• Francis Ford CoppolaGeorge Lucas, Michael Jackson and Francis Ford Coppola filming Captain EO Francis Ford Coppola (born April 7, 1939) is an American film director. Career 1960 to 1978 Coppola studied film at UCLA and while there, he made numerous short films, including som, film director
• Elizabeth Daley, dean, School of Cinema and Television, University of Southern California
• Esther Dyson, publisher and editor
• Larry Ellison, CEO, Oracle Corporation
• Rob Glaser, CEO, RealNetworks
• Ira Glass, host of This American Life, Public Radio International
• Carl Goodman, curator, American Museum of the Moving Image
• Jerry Greenfield, co-founder, Ben & Jerry's
• Jim Griffith , moderator, rec.humor.funny
• Matt Groening, creator, The Simpsons
• Peter Guber , chairman, Mandalay Pictures
• Julia Butterfly Hill , activist and author, Circle of Life Foundation
• Arianna Huffington, political columnist
• Mizuko Ito , visiting scholar, USC Annenberg Center for Communications
• David S. Jackson, editor, http://DefendAmerica.gov/, U.S. Department of Defense
• Guy Kawasaki, founder, http://Garage.com/
• Isaac Kerlow, director - Digital Production, the Walt Disney Company
• John Kilcullen, president and publisher, Billboard.com
• Raph Koster, creative director, Sony Online Entertainment
• Dan Lynch , chairman, Lynch Enterprises
• Virginia McHugh, executive director, Association Montessori Internationale USA
• Seymour Papert, author, Connected Family
• Joseph Patel, writer and producer, MTV News
• Tom Peters, author, In Search of Excellence
• Kim Polese, chairman, Marimba, Inc.
• Larry Rinder, curator of contemporary art, The Whitney Museum of American Art
• Jennifer Ringley, proprietress, JenniCam
• Anita Roddick, president, The Body Shop
• Marina Rosenfeld , artist and composer
• Robert Senn, executive vice president, the Grammy Awards
• Doug Sery, editor, MIT Press
• Richard Stallman, Chief GNUisance, GNU Project
• Sister Patricia Stanley, Technical Support, Sisters of St. Joseph
• Cyndi Stivers, president and editor-in-chief, Time Out NY
• Nadine Strossen, president, ACLU
• Sherry Turkle, director, MIT Initiative on Technology and Self
• Dennis Valle, director of New Media, Dolce & Gabbana Spa
• Katrina vanden Heuval, editor-in-chief, The Nation
• Hal Varian, Professor, University of California, Berkeley
• Karen Watson, New Media Project development officer, Corporation for Public Broadcasting
• Jonathan Weber, editor-in-chief, Industry Standard
• David Wetherell, chairman and CEO, CMGI, Inc.
• Bebo White, historical web artifact, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
• Judy Wieder, editor-in-chief, The Advocate
• Gail Williams, director of communities, Salon.com: The WELL & Table Talk