Barry Ptolemy City on August 3, 2011. Ptolemy has been quoted as saying he assembled this panel to "start a grand discussion about the future." Barry Ptolemy Robert Barry Ptolemy (born 1969) is an American film director, producer and writer. Ptolemy directed "Transcendent Man" (2009) a documentary film about futurist and inventor Ray Kurzweil. Ptolemy was born in Los Angeles, California. His father introduced him to computers at an early age, giving him a lifelong interest in technology. At the age of 12, Ptolemy worked with Steven Spielberg on the set of "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" (1982) as an animal wrangler. Inspired by
Ptolemy Macron Ptolemy Macron Ptolemy Macron (fl. 2nd century BCE) was a Seleucid general of King Antiochus IV Epiphanes (c. 215 BCE – 164 BCE) of Syria. His life is covered in parts of the first two Books of the Maccabees, which call him the son of Dorymenes and give him the cognomen "Macron". According to II Macc. x. 12, Ptolemy Macron abandoned Cyprus, which had been entrusted to him by the Egyptian king Ptolemy Philometor. The passage in Polybius and the biography which the Suda gives of Ptolemy Macron refer to his conduct in Cyprus. Ptolemy Macron then went over to