# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-saffo
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:24:46.854Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-saffo"
name: "Paul Saffo"
slug: "paul-saffo"
description: "Paul Saffo is a futurist and technology forecaster based in Silicon Valley, California. A Consulting Professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University, Saffo teaches courses on the future of engineering and the impact of technological change on the future. In 2008, Saffo was named Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the Stanford Media X research network."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Futurist_Paul_Saffo.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1954"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.1935483870967742
  historical:           5.278042666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Пол Саффо"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7153403"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump