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The PopTech conference, curated by Popular Science contriubting futurist Andrew Zolli, showcases the world's most exciting ideas and inventions every October in Camden, Maine. This year's gathering tackles the "grand challenges" facing humankind today. PopSci executive editor Michael Moyer has posted his notes from the conference-the Cliff Notes, if you will, to the ideas and trends shaping the intersection of technology and culture. Detailed speaker bios are available at poptech.org.
Topics and Speakers:
Seeing What's There
Graham Flint
Building a Gigapxl Camera
Bob Hanner
DNA Barcodes, Biodiversity and You
It's Alive!
Norman Packard
Creating Life From Scratch
Theo Jansen
Sculpture as Artificial Life
Mind and Body
Todd Kuiken and Jesse Sullivan
The World's First Bionic Arm
Explorer's Club
Peter Diamandis
Using Prizes to Encourage Exploration
Marcia McNutt
Robotic Exploration of the Very Deep Oceans
Carolyn Porco
A Journey to Saturn Aboard Cassini
People, Place and Planet
Mark Lynas
Human Cost of Climate Change
Suketu Mehta
Life in Bombay, the Maximum City
East Meets West
Oded Shenkar
The Chinese Century: Are We Toast?
Rebecca MacKinnon
China and the Internet: The Change Goes Both Waysâ€.
Serious Games
Ed Castronova
Gold From Thin Air: The Economy of Synthetic Worlds
Ivan Marovic
Using Video Games as a Tool of Political Organization and Dissent
Steven Berlin Johnson
Everything Bad is Good for You
Participation Revolution
Yochai Benkler
The Wealth of Networks-How social production transforms markets and freedom
Nicholas Negroponte
The $100 Laptop
Bart Depram
Flock: A New Approach to Web Browsers
Habitats
Robert Neuwirth
21st Century Medieval City
Ingo Gunther
Looking at World Data Through Art
Big Fixes
Cameron Sinclair
Using Design To Change How We Do Disaster Relief
Neil Gershenfeld
How To Make Anything
The Future of Ideas
Sam Harris
The End of Faith
Susan Blackmore
The Future of Memetics
What Do We Know?
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Scandal of Prediction
Robert Trivers
Deceit, Self-Deception and the War
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