Michael Pollan, as always, making perfect sense: Now watch Will Allen on urban...

Clay Shirky is always a great speaker.  Here's his Pop!Tech from last year: @ Yahoo!...

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[ 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...

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...

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! Benjamin Zander at Pop!Tech 2008: How Fascinating! - Watch more Videos at Vodpod. Here are a few more favorites, hot...

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...

One of the talks at Pop!Tech this year sparked intense emotions regardless of whether people agreed with the premise or not: Juan Enriquez (2008) Pop!Tech Pop!Cast from PopTech on Vimeo. To address these intense feelings and the demand for public discussion, a wiki was created, in which you are invited to...

Sustainable ecocities (Dickson Despommier) One shed of hydroponic barley = 200 acres of land No new tech required VerticalFarm.com Shipping container homes 70% of worlds fresh water in Antarctic ice shelf a Russian drilling project almost completed will cause water geyser 3000 meters high for 4...

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;...

The conference is being streamed live via video on live.poptech.org Theme of the conference is Scarcity and Abundance. BarefootCollege.org (Bunker Roy) training poor, illiterate rural, older women from around the world to engineers, take knowledge back to their village and transform it decentralizing...