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October 21, 2006

Metcalfe Does His POPTech Recap

Bob Metcalfe takes the stage. People behind me notice that with his backpack and sneakers, he looks like he's taking off somewhere.

My goodness, he's lost 75 pounds in the last 7 months. He says he "zoned" into a careful diet and says he's not dying, just dying more slowly. We're waiting with baited breath. Bob apologizes to the speakers for surely getting what they said wrong. Also, since no one ever really changes their minds, he says that POPTech is mostly pointless (audience laughs).

POPTech started with being an extension of the Camden Conference. It is now an entity all its own, as Bob charts the course of POPTech. I'm enjoying this as I'm a 7 year veteran of this conference. Being Human in the Digital Age, Online All the Time, Articicial Worlds, Sea Change, The Next Renaissance, The Impact of Technology on People, were just some of the headlines and themes of our beloved gatherings. Bob salutes POPTech curator Andrew Zolli, who gets a standing ovation.

[As Bob recounts the highlights of all of the wonderful speakers, I find myself listening more and typing less... playing stenographer as Bob speaks doesn't seem totally useful. Meanwhile, It's nice to see two "partiarchs" of POPTech enjoying this epilogue of the conference as John Scully relaxes stage right, smiling softly as Bob makes his way through his deck of cards.]

Interesting that Bob describes Tom Barnett's talk (on "Taking On Superpowers) as perhaps the best of the conference. (Last year Bob gave this accolade to Dr. Carolyn Porco. He makes special note of the image of the Cassini space probe's image of a full solar eclipse from behind Saturn as Cassini moves beyond it's orbit. See www.ciclops.org. Carolyn is the Cassini Imagng Team Leader.) I would have to disagree with Bob on this one. Depending on the the history of your own personal experience and your lens through which you view the world, you can say that EVERY talk was "the best." That's not a copout. Barnett's talk was incredible, but so were many of this year's speakers. I was simply blown away by people this year (as I often am every year.)

Bob is talking abut interesting potential "duets," such as Losang Rabgey and the monastic traditions of Tibet alongside Richard Dawkins with his views on science over religion. (I suspect that Dawkins has little quarrel with Buddhism; it may be that he has more significant objections about the impacts of Judeo-Christian-Islamic tenets.)

Closing comments and recap of topics now... Environmental issues, the collective intelligence of Earth; threats to our privacy, genetic engineering, new engineering materials, systemadmin capabilities and stabilizing of failed countries, jihadism, open source, the "long tail", health sciences... these make up most of the Dangerous Ideas of POPTech 2006.

Now John Scully joins Bob. It's good to see them both on stage, recounting the founding ideas of POPTech. Bob says PT is the emergence of complex system from a set of simple rules. The core ingredients of POPTech as a successful conference are fascinating - I'd imagine that publishing these elements somewhere would be a good idea. Scully talks about the grassroots effort - including our volunteers - and how philosophically, we all approached these subjects with an intellectual stance of great curiosity. The things that started PT carry a derivative effect to where we are today. We have broadened beyond just technology. Innovation, a wide range of fields, has emerged. Artists, performers, and others also make PT exciting.

John says that the audience is just as importance in playing a role as the speakers. (I'd say that a remarkable experience is interacting with the speakers, who often stay throughout the conference when they can.)

Technology is ubiquitous as Bob says in this conversation, and now all "the rest" of the issues of the world make the POPTech stage. Now we go to comments from the audience, like a town hall meeting. Andrew comments about the structure of POPTech, and talks about turnover with fresh faces in recent years among attendees, that's there's new blood in the room. It used to be that there were more "regulars," and that has recently changed. (However, I think it's also because of recent, large jumps in the price of admission. Gentrification happens everywhere it seems.)

Some ideas about where POPTech is going. It's becoming a year-round concept. Outreach will happen where POPTech makes it's presence in other places around the world (he doesn't mean it will be held outside of Camden, I think).

We are about to head to the Owl's Head Transportation Museum. It wraps there with a wonderful dinner gala alongside among gorgeously restored airplanes and vintage automobiles. Bravo POPTech 2006!

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"American Hostage" at the POPTech 2006 Conference

The POPTech audience sat in rapt silence as Micah Garen and Marie-Helene Carleton told their story described in their new book, "American Hostage." In 2003 Micah and Marie-Helene were in Iraq chronicling the looting of historical articacts from archeological sites dating back thousands of years. Two days before being scheduled to leave, Micah and his Iraqi translater Amir Doshe were kidnapped by insurgent fighters loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in a crowded market in Nasiriyah.

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A remarkable aspect of this story was told by Marie-Helene about how Micah's release was made possible by the grassroots, tech-enabled efforts by a wide social network that she and Micah's family enlisted both in America and among people on the ground (connected to the local clerics) inside Iraq. She made a particular point that - in addition to traditional channels - this network rallied a vast array of people to help conduct the delicate negotiations that rescued Micah and Amir (after a tense ten days in captivity) .

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One thing that I said to Micah and Marie-Helene after their talk was how powerfully this came across - as a love story. There was one moment in particular during their talk where Micah described how his friend Amir was beaten while blindfolded in captivity. He had to stop for a moment, and you could feel the tears welling up as he tried to regain his composure before the 500+ (totally silent) people in our audience. Marie-Helene gently reached over and touched his hand in a tender gesture. I found myself feeling flush with emotion just witnessing that, as I'm sure others did too.

Another aspect of this story was how fragile events can be that can tilt destiny in one direction versus the next. Although Micah was essentially "undercover" in Iraq, mostly blending into the country with his olive skin and bushy mustache, what tipped his would-be captors that he was an "outsider" was a small digital camera that he had in his hand in the Nasiriyah marketplace. How strange that his destiny shifted in that one brief moment when the camera was spotted.

Micah's gratitude for his release was framed in the context of the terrible executions of two other hostages who preceded him: Daniel Pearl and Nick Berg. The Pearl reference struck close to home for me, since my office in Pittsfield, Massachusetts is also home to the Berkshire Eagle newspaper, where Pearl was a reporter before joining the Wall St Journal.

Later that evening, in a restaurant with Dan Costa, a senior editor with PC Magazine, we talked about how we wished our country could be more conscious of the thousands of soldiers who did not get out of Iraq alive like Micah Garen.

That being said, it was a wonderful experience hearing and later meeting Micah and Marie-Helene. I imagine that their lives will have a future filled with purpose as they raise awareness among people who get to hear their remarkable story.


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October 20, 2006

More Networking at POPTech

Earlier today I had the privilege of having a sushi lunch with two of the POPTech speakers, Kevin Kelly and Robert Freling. Both of these fellows delivered an amazing session that you can read more about in a previous blog posting, and it was a pleasure talking about everyday life stuff like photography and family, as well as some of the heady and thoughtful subjects that they spoke so elegantly about.

Speaking of networking, I have to introduce Bob to two of the most remarkable people that I know, Sally Goodrich and her husband Don, who live in Bennington Vermont, near my hometown in western Massachusetts. Sally and Don lost a son, Peter, who was on UAL Flight 175 which was hijacked into the WTC South Tower on 9/11.

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This is an incredibly powerful story, as Sally and Don, in response to Peter’s death, took whatever compensation they received and decided to build a school for girls in Afghanistan. The school recently opened on the 5th anniversary of 9/11. More information can be found about their mission here on the Peter M. Goodrich foundation.

To make a long networking story short, last year I arranged for Sally to meet with Sanjit Bunker Roy, who was an inspiration in helping Sally with ideas to solve the energy and water needs of the school with using technologies like solar electrification. When Robert Freling and I talked about that initiative, he also wanted to know more about Sally and this remarkable project that she and Don had come to fulfill. (Sally and Don, if you're reading this, Robert would love to know more about you and somehow connect on the subject of solar power for the school.)

At present, there is also a documentary film in the works by my friend Rick Derby, an HBO award-winning documentary film maker (google the title "Rocks With Wings" or "Rick Derby"), who is putting his heart and soul into this project. More of this is unfolding day-by-day. I find it humbling and exciting that life manages to find a way for the people I described to come together, with seemingly orthogonal connections even making their way through avenues like folks I've met at POPTech.

(Additional note: There is an exciting notion to incorporate the music of Haale, who weaves Sufi inspired melodies with poetry by Rumi, a 13th century Afghan mystic, to be part of the Goodrich documentary. Go to Haale's website and find out if she's going to be performing near you - www.haale.com.)

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"Faith" at the POPTech 2006 Conference

Martin Marty takes the stage. He is presenting on fundamentalism and religion in the world today. As a prominent pastor, teacher, scholar and interpreter of religion and culture, he has written more than 50 books and received 75 (!!) honorary doctorate degrees.

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is the other speaker. Richard – an Oxford biologist - also comes with remarkable credentials but from an entirely different perspective. His book, The God Delusion, criticizes religion for its intolerance. He says it's the scientist and humanist in him that makes him hostile to religions—fundamentalist Christianity and Islam come in for the most opprobrium—that close people's minds to scientific truth, oppress women and abuse children psychologically with the notion of eternal damnation.

I’m interested in what the conversational part of this talk will be like when we get to the open mike session.
In the meantime, Marty is talking about modern fundamentalism. The term is traced to the 1920s. (I am thinking about Tom Barnett’s take on religion as we talked over dinner about evangelicalism, which is different in how it emphasizes the conversion of peoples into a particular religion. I wonder how the two are inter-related.)
So far his talk is more folksy-storytelling than anything about technology and religion. I’m curious to hear more about Marty’s thoughts and perspective on the role of religion as a “dangerous idea” within the dialog space of this POPTech conference. So far there’s not more than a commentary that religion will not go away in modern life. It is here to stay, with the sense of mystery with regard to life ensuring the propagation and role of religion.
The search for meaning and the company of people on similar journeys will result in religion always playing a role in life.

Richard Dawkins is now coming on stage. I suspect that his stand is going to be more bold and controversial. He starts with homage to Dr. Marty. Believe in the absence of evidence is what he intends to describe, as opposed to belief based upon evidence.

Throughout the world, children acquire the religion of their parents for the most part, and it is always the “right” religion. He shows a map of 13 major religions around the globe, and finds it remarkable that all of us in society accepts the labeling of people in this way, drawing out what in effect are “battle lines.”

He objects to children being taught “separation.”

He says that scientists are often accused of arrogant certainty, but wonders “What about the arrogance of faith?” Science has the humility and reverence that there are things we do not and can not understand. He says that faith has an arrogance that science does not share.

He says that Faith says:

I know the truth and nothing can change my mind. My holy book tells me the truth. I need to look no further. My priest (Pope, Ayatollah etc.) tells me the truth. I need to look no further. An inner voice tells me the truth. I need to look no further.

He says it is about time that it is about time to criticize Faith, and shift from the polite “hands-off” social convention for automatic respect for religious faith. He believes that science’s polite humility that its postulates are often framed as “It’s only a theory…” awaiting challenge and open discourse, that makes it vulnerable to the attacks from [arrogant] Faith.

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"Taking On Superpowers" at the POPTech 2006 Conference

Taking on Superpowers is the subject of the next talk featuring two past POPTech heavyweights, Juan Enriquez and Thomas Barnett.

Enriquez begins and we immediately delve into a remarkable presentation about nationalism, patriotism, and identity. He challenges us to consider the question of who we are as a nation. One question posed is – “How many stars will there be on the US flag 50 years from now?” 55? 65? Or fewer? We started with 13. Interesting note: No US president ever died with the same number of stars on the flag as on the day that he was born.

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Will there be no border between US and Canada in 50 years? People assume continuity with regard to nations, when there is not and never really has been. He showed is a dynamic map illustrating the changing empires in Europe and the Middle East to illustrate the point. It was remarkable.

As an example, he discussed the British empire contraction from 1905 to 1955 by a factor of about 15. Over the span of those 50 years, they never dreamed of the contraction that unfolded. He says that the real danger to the United States is not “from the outside,” but that the real “danger” in the USA is from what happens on the inside.

No one is really talking to each other from each side of the left/right political camps in any serious form of collaboration. He says to remember that flags and countries can disappear just like companies. He says there is an enormous amount of churn in our institutions and that our national divisions can tear apart this country.

Message: Don’t take your country for granted. It is not guaranteed that it will stay. There are fundamental divisions and polarizations occurring with both sides becoming increasingly polarized and isolated. This has to stop – and to do so we have to start a serious conversation. One thing he closes with are trend graphs technology exports showing how we are now contracting, with countries like China expanding. We have a collapsing population of science and engineering graduates and long term, this will render us less relevant. He believes that we must fix our education system or there will not be 50 stars in the flag.

Later on he makes note that in the course of US history, New England states pressed the idea of seceding – 4 times. (Quebec isn’t the only province/state to want to leave.)

Now Tom Barnett takes the stage.

He starts be addressing the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. After ideology, what do we fight over? We now experience wars of the spirit, and wars of identity. Globalization as an irresistible and never ending progression will change the face of the globe whether we want it to or not.

One consequence: there are 3 billion new capitalists and consumers worldwide.

(I recall Lester Brown saying yesterday that China already consumes more basic resources than the US, like cement, steel, and building products. What happens if China catches up with USA per-capita consumption? If they spend their money the way that the US does (and we are selling them on this way of life), at 1.5B people, they will consume twice as much paper as everyone else and there go the forests. If they have the same number of cars per capita, they alone would need 99M barrels of oil/day (84M of oil per day is our present worldwide availability. Answer: It’s not possible for China to consume per capita as US. We will have to change or things will unravel. Claims on the Earth’s resources are unsustainable.)

Barnett’s talk is rapid-fire and intense from this point on about winning the war with failed nation states and the incredible underestimation about the time and resources needed to winning the peace in the aftermath of our Leviathan military being able to project force. This is a major aspect of his books that is far too complex to address here.

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However, he closes with a compelling discourse about how critical the “other superpower” – China, will be in the future of the geopolitical landscape. They will be critical in every part of the world, including with regard to North Korea.

In short, there will have to be a powerful collaboration between the US and China for world stabilization.

In the follow up Q&A, Enriquez says that our national priorities in the US must shift. One way to effect that shift is to give every parent with a child, a proxy vote for each child, so as to change how we prioritize the future.
Barnett talks about the collaboration between the “New BRIT” of the future - Brazil Russia India and China. They are the new “core” for securing the peace in post-war failed states.

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Incredible Dinners at POPTech

Last night I had the pleasure of sharing a dinner at Camden’s local Thai restaurant with Dr. Tom Barnett, POPTech’s next program speaker. Tom wrote a New York Times best-selling book, The Pentagon’s New Map, which outlined a new approach to globalization that redefines the dynamics of global politics and development. Visit his blog for everything from his take on subjects ranging from the Middle East, North Korea, and Iran to reading his experiences adopting a baby girl from China.

(Tom also has a new book called, Blueprint for Action: A Future Worth Creating, which continues on with prescriptive ideas as a follow up to his first book.)

Later on that evening, I reflected on the remarkable folks who I’ve shared a lunch or dinner, or other social time here in Camden. They include Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, Li Lu, a co-leader of the Tien An Men student protests, John Scully, former CEO of Pepsico and Apple, the performer Haale, Joseph Chamie from the United Nations, Sanjit Bunker Roy of the Barefoot College, Ira Glasser, former head of the ACLU, and others…

Only at POPTech. Incredible.

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October 19, 2006

"Green Shift" at the POPTech 2006 Conference

Thomas Friedman, Stewart Brand, Lester Brown, and Robert Freling are stunning the POPTech audience with a discussion about the dramatic shifts happening in the world from our consumption on non-renewable fuels, population growth, and geopolitical impacts from the relentless consumption of oil and rising prices.

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The storytelling aspects of these powerful speakers is captivating. Two of them simply sat in a chair and talked without any fancy graphics and slides. The room is silent and the discourse is powerful and captivating.

Brand's and Freling's audiovisuals are remarkable. There is far too much content in from this quartet to capture for this blog in real-time. Suffice to say that their message about the current and (near) future implications of our global growing consumption of fuel (China, India, and the former USSR are consuming resources at exponential rates) is already creating an upheaval of life on this planet with inevitable impact on a dramatic scale.

Freling's talk evokes memories of last year's inspirational POPTech presentation by Bunker Roy on the work of the Barefoot College in India, which has trained two generations of villagers without any formal paper qualifications to become health-care workers, solar engineers, hand-pump mechanics and teachers in their communities. He is hopeful as he describes the role of technology in solving so many of the world's problems, using solar power examples in rural Third World villages. He is working with the Partners in Health initiative at the Clinton Foundation.

One thing I found surprising from Stewart Brand was the forecast on polulation growth to 8-9 billion, followed by a dramatic decline back down to 3 billion. For more on this, go to some of Brand's research where he references forecasts based upon U.N. population studies.

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"Rodrigo and Gabriela" at the POPTech 2006 Conference

Oh My God - I have just experienced the most unbelievable pair of guitar players that I have ever seen in my life. I kid you freakin' not. Here, live on the stage at POPTech. You must find out more about "Rodrigo y Gabriela" at www.rodgab.com. The house was rocked!

Here's what some other folks around the world have said:

'This [the album] is assured, inventive stuff. The joy of Mex' - The Sun
'It it's rip-roaring, flamenco-flecked jazz-tinged rock'n'roll you're after, then you've come to the right place' - The Irish Times
This is a World Music album that swings' - Guardian
'Electrifying...they had us entranced and kept us in that state for the next 90 minutes' - The Independent
'This is brilliant' - Total Music Magazine
Album of the Month, ‘Inspirational’ - Guitar Techniques
‘Infectious’ - Indie London
'Fierce Emotion..raw excitment' - Guitarist Magazine
‘Stunning’ - Total Guitar
‘Spellbinding..It should leave you breathless.’ - IndieLondon
'Hotter than a bag of Mexican chilli peppers, a phenomenal live CD', - 10/10 DVD Fever
'Rodrigo y Gabriela leap musical boundaries like Grand National champions' - Songlines
‘They trade off one another with staggering effect.’ - Get Ready to Rock

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"Technology's Embrace" at the POPTech 2006 Conference

Kevin Kelly, founder of Wired magazine is speaking about technology and its consequences. He describes that the processing power, the interconnections (synapses/links), the actions/clicks, and the memory of the collective (global) web, resembles the profile of the human brain.

I am reminded of the parallels and the way they’re described in Gaia Theory and the concept of the Global Brain. (Some of my favorite ideas on this subject are wonderfully expressed by the futurist Peter Russell.)

Kelly is also talking about technology by asking us the question, “What is it that technology itself wants?” He describes that it wants to copy, to replicate, and to increase its power density and efficiency. That it wants to be copied without restraint, and that it does not want to be prohibited.

I can hear echoes of “meme theory” which was presented last year at POPTech by Dr. Susan Blackmore in her book, “The Meme Machine.” It was a talk that I don’t think many folks fully realized in its implications. For more on memes, look into the book, "The Selfish Gene", where Richard Dawkins proposed the concept of the meme as a unit of culture, spread by imitation.

In the context posed by Kelly, technology has a mind of its own. I imagine the ego-centric human-centric view of consciousness would take this to be a rather scary concept. Who didn’t shiver when the HAL 2000 came to life in “2001: A Space Odyssey,” or when you recall the swarms of sentient machines trying to wipe out Zion, the last human city. But Kelly doesn’t pain a good/evil agenda of technology; that there are no “bad” technologies – they are simply what they are. And that technology is marching on, to the point that by 2020 to 2040, the processing power of the collective earth/Web will exceed the computing power of all the humans on planet.

I wonder what it will think?

P.S. Some interesting factoids from Kelly. At present, there are:

1 billion PC chips on the internet
1 million emails per second
1 million IM messages per second
8 terabytes per second of traffic
65 billion phone calls per year
20 exabytes of magnetic storage
1 million voice queries per hour
2 billion location nodes activated
600 billion RFID tags in use

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"Emergence" at the POPTech 2006 Conference

Brian Eno, the artist and musician took the POPTech stage to discuss the concept of “Emergence.” He’s referencing Daniel Dennett’s book, “Darwin’s Dangerous Idea,” which posits that complex systems emerge from simple building blocks, a bottom-up view of emergence as contrasted with the idea that systems come into being from the top-down.

I didn’t realize that Dennett is the director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University, which also happens to be my alma mater.

What struck me was the elegance with which Eno described looking at systems from this view and how the concepts posed by Darwin (and Dennett's interpretation) suggests that humankind consider itself with a sense of humility instead of ego. As a speaker, Eno is thought provoking and soft-spoken. It’s a nice way to begin a very reflective 3 days at this incredible event. He is encouraging us to consider the idea of emergence by thinking and feeling about things in a different way. I am conscious of the theme of this year's conference being about "Dangerous Ideas." It's fascinating that looking at our universe in different ways is and has been considered "dangerous."

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Eno is followed by Will Wright, who is the creative force behind the award-winning game franchise, “The Sims.” Wright is presenting a rather non-Darwinian demonstration of constructing 3-dimensional and interactive game entities in a virtual world on the POPTech big screen. Ironically, Wright’s demonstration evokes images of a great creator-god, building a universe in (less than) 7 days. Wow…

Speaker Bio: Brian Eno has become an iconic figure within international contemporary culture. As an artist, musician, ideologue and systems-maker, he has established a philosophy of cultural production which links the enquiring spirit of conceptual art to the broadest applications of popular culture and sociology.

Best known in the field of music, Eno’s discography as a musician, producer and artistic collaborator includes some of the most acclaimed recordings in the history of modern music. Artists as seminal yet varied as John Cale, David Byrne, Laurie Anderson, David Bowie, Bono, Peter Gabriel and most recently Paul Simon have chosen to work with Eno, and he is one of the most sought after figures working across the spectrum of contemporary music, from guitar driven rock to film scores and electronica.

And yet music is only one strand of Eno’s creative project. As a lecturer, visual artist, writer, political activist and futurologist, his opinions and ideas have been requested by institutions and think tanks on subjects as disparate as concepts of time, urban futures, perfume making and the history of art.

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POPTech Conference 2006 - "Dangerous Ideas"

Last night I arrived at the splendid Hawthorn Inn overlooking Camden Harbor here in Maine. After a 6 hour drive through the beautiful New England countryside, I finally arrived in this bucolic and quintessestial coastal town. I slept like a baby and woke early. Blogging at 5:30 am, the inn is quiet and peaceful. It's a reunion in many ways, being greeted last night by old friends, meeting new ones, and taking in the hospitality of Maryanne Shanahan who is the inkeeper at this lovely bed and breakfast.

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This year, POPTech 2006's theme is, "Dangerous Ideas." The conference website describes it as follows:

What is a “dangerous” idea? It’s one that upends conventions, challenges assumptions and breaks taboos, reordering our sense of the world and our place within it. It’s an idea, as Victor Hugo said, whose time has come.

Pop!Tech 2006, our 10th anniversary gathering, will again bring 500 extraordinary people together with more than 30 speakers, performers, iconoclasts and visionaries to think about the social impact of new technologies and the future of ideas. Here’s just some of what we’ll be discussing:

* The nature of risk in the connected age
* Bright green possibilities
* Globalization’s great surprises
* The role of faith and fundamentalism
* Pandemics and their prevention
* New approaches to education
* The creative imperative
* New frontiers of exploration
* What technology wants from us
* Our constructed selves
* Conflict, resolution and the possibility of peace

Check out the roster of speakers, which includes New York Times columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winner Thomas Friedman, game design god Will Wright, ambient music pioneer Brian Eno, global health visionary (and newly minted MacArthur Fellow) Victoria Hale, legendary geneticist Richard Dawkins, renowned environmentalist Lester Brown, Tibetan education pioneer Losang Ragbey, chef and gastronomic invetor Homaro Cantu, and dozens more - and that doesn't even touch on the many incredible performers and unannounced special guests.

Like every Pop!Tech, the 2006 event will feature a rich mix of presentations, performances and one-of-a-kind surprises. Be prepared to be wowed.

All of these seem to be incredible topics that you don't hear discussed at just any conference quite like the way subjects are presented here. I always imagined that two of my passions, technology and the nature of conflict, were an unusual combination. It's really exciting to see that both of these subjects are on the headlines here. It's my 7th year at POPTech and it feels really good to be back at one of my "intellectual homes." Stay tuned.

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