Designer Chris Luebkeman likes to ski. Recently, he went skiing in Dubai, enjoying the indoor slopes while it was 45C outside. He points out that… Read More »Pop!Tech – Sustainable and unsustainable cities
Robert Boroffice has an improbable job – he’s the head of Nigeria’s space agency, NASRDA. Andrew Zolli makes the predictable Jamaican bobsled team joke in… Read More »Pop!Tech – The Nigerian Space Program
The post-lunch session at Friday’s Pop!Tech is called “sustaining the future”. Andrew explains that it could be called, “the improbables”. The speakers in this session… Read More »Pop!Tech – Backing up global agriculture
Is it enough to come together and talk about important scientific, social and technical issues? That’s a question that Andrew Zolli, curator of Pop!Tech has… Read More »Pop!Tech: Acceleration and managing AIDS
Several of the international conferences I attend have been considering the environmental impact of their activities and purchasing carbon offsets to help balance the effects… Read More »Pop!Tech and carbon neutrality
Dan Gilbert, professor at Harvard and author of “Stumbling on Happiness“, focuses his talk on human analysis of risk. He begins his talk with a… Read More »Pop!Tech: Happiness and Risk