Today is the first day of Pop!Tech, a three-day conference featuring the most creative, innovative and dangerous thinkers on the planet.

Yahoo has a giant satellite truck out front of the quaint Opera House here in Camden, Maine. They are beaming the audio and video of the presentations and musical performances directly to Houston, parsing the files and streaming to viewers on-line in real-time.

This morning you can listen presentations for free by such luminaries as musicisn Brian Eno, the inventor of SimCity Will Wright, columnist Tom Freidman and futurist Kevin Kelly.

To listen in and to contribute to the conversation, visit http://live.poptech.org/

I'll be inside the Opera House, with a mobile paint studio set up way up in the loge seats producing large graffiti works for each speaker. All paintings created during the conference can be seen on MissingLink at: http://alphachimp.missinglink.biz/poptech/poptech-2006-dangerous-ideas

You can see the results from past years at
/poptech/simpleviewer2005/

Click below to see the schedule of speakers, with times listed being US Eastern Standard. Hope you catch some of the show!

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POP!TECH SCHEDULE
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Thursday, October 19
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9:00 AM Emergence with Brian Eno and Will Wright
10:30 AM Break
11:00 AM Technology's Embrace with Kevin Kelly,
Marianne Weems, and Hasan Elahi
12:30 PM Lunch Break
2:00 PM GreenShift with Tom Friedman, Steward Brand,
Lester Brown, and Robert Freling
4:00 PM Break
4:30 PM Fabricating the Future with Bruce Sterling,
Blaine Brownell, and Alex Steffen
6:30 PM Free time for dinner and friends
9:00 PM Three-Minute Miracles: Open Mic Night

Friday, October 20
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9:00 AM Taking on Superpowers with Juan Enriquez,
Tom Barnett, and The Yes Men
10:30 AM Break
11:00 AM Identity Reframed with Ayaan Hirsi Ali
and Kwame Anthony Appiah
12:30 PM Lunch Break
2:00 PM On Faith with Martin Marty and Richard Dawkins
3:00 PM
3:30 PM Pop!Tech Social
4:30 PM The Edge of Learning with Education Fellows,
Erin McKean, and Losang Rabgey

Saturday, October 21
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9:00 AM Tails and Tales with Chris Anderson, Kent Nichols, and Ze Frank
10:30 AM Break
11:00 AM Community Cures with Victoria Hale, Neema Mgana, and Zinhle Thabethe
12:30 PM Lunch Break
2:00 PM Artful Invention with Clifford Ross and Homaro Cantu
3:30 PM The Neo-Futurists
4:00 PM Break
4:30 PM Risk and Revolution with Roger Brent and Craig Venter
5:30 PM Wrap-up with Bob Metcalfe and John Sculley

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