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
Stone Tower (Ptolemy) Kyrgyzstan; and (iv) the town of Tashkurgan, in Xinjiang, China. However, some historians also consider the Hormeterium, located nearby in the mountains close to the crossover point with China, to be one and the same as the Stone Tower; and believe this landmark to be the settlement of Irkeshtam. All four sites mentioned above, as well as Irkeshtam, can be seen on the "Map of Silk Roads over the Roof of Asia". Stone Tower (Ptolemy) Ptolemy, the Greco-Egyptian geographer of Alexandria, wrote about a "Stone Tower" (λίθινος πύργος in Greek, "Turris Lapidea" in Latin) which marked the mid-point on the