Pop!Tech is an extraordinary three-day summit bringing together 550 visionary thinkers in the sciences, technology, business, design, the arts, education, social development, government, and culture to explore the cutting-edge ideas, emerging technologies and new forces of change that are shaping our collective future. Now you can take the energy and inspiration that is Pop!Tech with you anywhere, with these video and audio podcasts. Pop!Casts let you join the conversation and engage in the extraordinary work that had its start in Camden , Maine . Are you ready to accept the challenges issued by the thinkers and innovators who move Pop!Tech audiences, year after year?
Author, journalist and contributing editor at Wired magazine Bruce Sterling understands why people get confused about new technology concepts. In what he sees as a culture war of web semantics, Bruce gets the audience's attention with a unique call for a new vocabulary to better describe experiences with technology.
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Neema Mgana is a social entrepreneur, Nobel Peace Prize nominee and Pop!Tech Fellow. She gives us an insider's view into work she started last year with Architecture for Humanity in a Pop!Tech match-up. Together, they're creating a community-based health center in the rural Singida region of Tanzania.
As co-founder and editor of WorldChanging.com, Alex Steffen sees the biggest barriers to building a sustainable planet as political, not technological. Here, he offers an actionable task list of challenges, ideas, products and services to help dematerialize the world.
Wired editor-at-large Kevin Kelly explores the nature of technology through technology's eyes. And, watch out!-Kevin thinks we'll soon be dwarfed by the collective intelligence of all the technology we're creating.
Author, futurist, activist and visionary, the inimitable Stewart Brand puts a lens to the next 30 years of the green movement. He sees increasing urbanization, new cities full of young people, the expansion of environmentalism and more.
For many, vocalist Yungchen Lhamo has become the voice of Tibet. Yungchen's powerful a cappella vocals fill the Camden Opera House as she weaves rich narrative with spirit to share her life's journey.
You say you want a revolution? Ivan Marovic's got one for you-a nonviolent one, that is. This Serbian activist is connecting the virtual world to the real world with a video game to promote nonviolent strategies. It's an interactive approach that teaches in a way books and films can't.
Follow explorer Ben Saunders' solo, unsupported journey across the frozen Arctic Ocean and grasp the true limits of human potential. At 26, he's the youngest person to ski to the North Pole and only the fourth in history to accomplish the feat. He's also witness to climate change at work.
With a voice that could move a mountain, orator Eloma Simpson Barnes practically channels Martin Luther King, Jr., as she performs one of his speeches. She emulates King's cadence, intonation and enunciation in this inspirational reminder to stand up for what you believe in.
Malcolm Gladwell takes the lessons of psychology and sociology and applies them to business in ways we've never thought of before. Here, he deep-dives into the world of office chair invention and soft drink taste tests to answer the question, "Can we believe what people tell us?"
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is not afraid to say "I don't know." In fact, he's proud of his ignorance. A mathematician, philosopher and hedge-fund manager all in one iconoclastic package, Taleb demonstrates the wisdom in admitting the limitations of our knowledge.
If you think this is the first time humans have grappled with climate change, you weren't paying attention in archeology class. Join world-famous archeologist Brian Fagan as he travels back in time to teach us a lesson that ancient civilizations learned the hard way: adapt or die.
Get inspired by Richard Alley's optimistic view on global warming. This world-renowned paleoclimatologist does have some bad news about climate change, although he'll convince you that we not only have the tools to solve the problem, but we can make money doing it too.
Blaine Brownell is an architect obsessed with sustainable building materials. He introduces a wonderful world of products made from repurposed materials and provides a glimpse of what a post-fossil fuel world might look like.
Since being detained and interrogated by the FBI as a suspected terrorist, Hasan Elahi has documented his every move in maps and images on the web. He walks us through his "little" self-surveillance experiment, where he's found that the more public his personal information, the more protected he is.
Part mad scientist, part artist, chef Homaro Cantu pushes the traditional limits of known taste, texture and technique in a stunning futuristic fashion. With lab partner Ben Roche, Homaro slices and dices technology to reinvent the way people eat.
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Jesse Sullivan & Todd Kuiken (2005) Pop!Tech Pop!Cast - video
Don't miss the "it" moment from Pop!Tech 2005, as the world's first non-fictional bionic man maneuvers his prosthetic arm using only his mind. Jesse Sullivan and his doctor, Todd Kuiken, move every heart in the room with indomitable spirit and astonishing bionics.
Zinhle Thabethe has faced the prospect of her own death. Her personal stories about survival and family loss reflect a nation's epidemic in a sobering and inspirational wake-up call.
Richard Dawkins believes science's ability to admit ignorance is one of its greatest strengths. On the flip side, he proposes that faith remains arrogant and all too certain of its validity without any rational set of proofs.
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