Bryan Alexander is an American futurist and author who is a Georgetown University Senior Scholar and the creator of The Future of Higher Education Observatory.

He then worked for the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) as a senior director.

[citation needed] Alexander lived in rural Vermont in a house that used woodstoves for heat, for which he chopped and split wood.

[9] In Academia Next (2020), Alexander's work written before the COVID-19 pandemic, he describes the possibilities and challenges of a pandemic upon higher education,[10] and covers several trends including demographic transition, escalating economic inequality, rising campus costs and student debt, open education (OER, open access), increasing multimedia tools, platforms, content, creativity, and rising automation.

A review said it has a "simple message: The climate crisis is real, there are fires everywhere, and 'it is up to us to choose if those will be flames of destruction or the lights of illumination.