Clay Shirky is always a great speaker. Here’s his Pop!Tech from last year:
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Designing for Generosity
Posted in Crowdsourcing, Management, Pop!Tech, Scarcity / Abundance, tagged Crowdsourcing, Management, Pop!Tech, Scarcity / Abundance on January 24, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Global Economic Constitution?
Posted in Alternative Institutions, Government, Interventions, Memes, Pop!Tech, Scarcity / Abundance, Superorganism, tagged Alternative Institutions, Government, Interventions, Memes, Pop!Tech, Scarcity / Abundance, Superorganism on January 9, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Greening the Bailout
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The New Model for Primary Care Medicine
Posted in Alternative Institutions, Medical Breakthroughs, Pop!Tech, Social Networks, tagged Alternative Institutions, Medical Breakthroughs, Pop!Tech, Social Networks on December 14, 2008| Leave a Comment »
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Invisible Etiology
Posted in Causality, Epidemiology, Infection, Interventions, Invisible Etiology, Memes, Pop!Tech, Science, tagged Causality, Epidemiology, Infection, Interventions, Invisible Etiology, Memes, Pop!Tech, Science on November 4, 2008| 3 Comments »
One of the most poignant moments of this year’s Pop!Tech for me — which, BTW had many — was Gary Slutkin’s talk on the idea of violence being a virus. You may have heard about his work in stopping violence in Chicago in a NY Times Magazine cover article earlier this year. The premise is simple: if you throw out what you think you know about violence and just look at the etiology of how it manifests in the world, you find incredible similarities to the etiology of microbial viruses. This includes not only how it spreads from person to person, but also the larger epidemiological patterns, and importantly, how it can be stopped via interventions which logically follow from the hypothesis that violence is a virus. Not that violence is caused by those invisible critters we call viruses, but rather that violence itself is a virus.
Favorite Pop!Tech Talks, part 1
Posted in Pop!Tech, tagged Pop!Tech on October 30, 2008| Leave a Comment »
One of the best speakers of Pop!Tech this year was also one of the best of TED. But if you’ve seen Ben Zander‘s TED talk, you still need to see this one, it’s not the same!
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Out of Poverty
Posted in Markets, Pop!Tech, Poverty, Scarcity / Abundance, tagged Markets, Pop!Tech, Poverty, Scarcity / Abundance on October 29, 2008| Leave a Comment »
One of the more inspiring talks at Pop!Tech this year was Paul Polak’s talk about serving the “other 90%” with life-saving and transformative products using a for-profit micro-franchise model that scales. Paul’s vision and track-record speaks for itself, check it out.
Want to Influence Financial Crisis Policy Debate?
Posted in Alternative Institutions, Government, Interventions, Markets, Pop!Tech, tagged Alternative Institutions, Government, Interventions, Markets, Pop!Tech on October 29, 2008| Leave a Comment »
One of the talks at Pop!Tech this year sparked intense emotions regardless of whether people agreed with the premise or not:
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To address these intense feelings and the demand for public discussion, a wiki was created, in which you are invited to join the discussion. This forum was designed as “a place for a rich, lively, respectful and facts-based dialog on what’s necessary to address the serious economic challenges confronting America today.” Hope to see you there.
Click here to go to the policy debate.
Pop!Tech Notes, part 3
Posted in Pop!Tech, Scarcity / Abundance, tagged Pop!Tech, Scarcity / Abundance on October 25, 2008| Leave a Comment »
- Sustainable ecocities (Dickson Despommier)
- One shed of hydroponic barley = 200 acres of land
- No new tech required
- VerticalFarm.com
- (more…)
Pop!Tech Notes, part 2
Posted in Pop!Tech, Scarcity / Abundance, tagged Pop!Tech, Scarcity / Abundance on October 24, 2008| 1 Comment »
This session of 3 speakers has been the best so far. All three were great speakers and must-watches on poptech.org.
Chris Anderson – attention and reputation are also economic markets; google is world’s largest reputation market (via pagerank); larry page and will wright are central bankers, like bernake; so is phil rosedale of second life; check out Maple Story (korean game coming to US); games enable time/money fungability
Pop!Tech Notes, part 1
Posted in Pop!Tech, Scarcity / Abundance, tagged Pop!Tech, Scarcity / Abundance on October 23, 2008| Leave a Comment »
The conference is being streamed live via video on live.poptech.org
Theme of the conference is Scarcity and Abundance.
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- decentralizing and spreading technical knowhow (women, no written word)
- rainwater collection
- solar electricity
- teaching done only by illiterates (don’t even speak same language) because literates can’t teach illiterates
- children’s parliment
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What is Cancer?
Posted in Blog Comment, Cancer, Causality, Crowdsourcing, Invisible Etiology, Pop!Tech, Science, tagged Blog Comment, Cancer, Causality, Crowdsourcing, Invisible Etiology, Pop!Tech, Science on November 5, 2008| Leave a Comment »
[ I’m asking for your help in answering this question, read past the fold to see how ]
In my post on invisible etiology, I challenged us all to be as open-minded as possible when dealing with our most complex problems, for this is the only way to make the invisible become visible. Here’s where I attempt to practice what I preach.
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