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 XII Auletes III. When Ptolemy XI died without a male heir, the only available male descendants of Ptolemy I were the illegitimate sons of Ptolemy IX. Living in exile in Sinope at the court of Mithridates VI, King of Pontus, they had been engaged to Mithridates' daughters before the Alexandrians recognized them as successors to the Ptolemaic kingdom instead of accepting Roman rule. As the eldest of Ptolemy IX's sons Ptolemy XII was proclaimed king as Ptolemy Neos Dionysos and married his sister or cousin Cleopatra Tryphaena, with whom he was coregent. His brother, also named Ptolemy, gained control of Cyprus. Ptolemy