Kelly Dobson: Machine Therapy
/Benjamin Zander: How fascinating!
/Project Masiluleke
/Erin McKean on Wordnik
/Laurie Garrett: Examining China's response to SARS
/Renowned global health expert Laurie Garrett gave a powerful and frightening talk at PopTech 2008 on how countries deal - both effectively and ineffectively - with pandemics. Examining China's response to SARS, she asked: what if this happened here?
Laura Waters: Rwanda, genocide and forgiveness
/Gary Slutkin: Is it possible to end violence?
/Jay Parkinson: Healthcare 2.0
/John Priscu: Life below the ice of Antarctic
/Join polar scientist John Priscu – and his autonomous robots - as he takes us miles below the Antarctic ice to search for living organisms that may have been cut off from the rest of the planet’s ecosystem for millions of years.
K. David Harrison: The rapid erosion of languages
/There are 7,000 languages spoken in the world. This, argues linguist K. David Harrison, represents the greatest repository of human knowledge ever assembled - but it’s rapidly eroding, and this will be terrible. We’re not only losing information, but we’re losing ways of understanding the world.
Frank Warren: PostSecret
/Four years ago, Frank Warren walked the streets of DC at night, handing out self-addressed postcards to strangers, soliciting their secrets. Watch as the creator of the wildly popular blog PostSecret reveals some of the hundreds of thousands of secrets shared by people from around the world in those four years…including a few of his own.
Chris Anderson
/What happens when material things become free? Long Tail author and Wired magazine editor Chris Anderson examines new models of wealth distribution and claims we’re moving from economies of scarcity to an age of abundance.
Clay Shirky: Encouraging generosity and participation
/Internet guru Clay Shirky has a unique ability to present the chaos of the Web in stunningly clear terms, as he does here, documenting what a "spontaneously, self-assembling, online philanthropic venture" tells us about the nature of human motivation.
DJ Matt Mason
/Journalist, author and former pirate radio DJ Matt Mason argues that if you can’t stop the pirates – and you can’t – you should figure out how to out-compete them (like Apple did).