I spoke to Steven Johnson briefly before his presentation at Pop!Tech. He told me he was going to try to add some seriousness, gravitas and… Read More »Moving on to serious stuff, like Grand Theft Auto
Ivan Marovic is a young Serbian activist, a key figure in the Otpor (“Resistance”) movement. The movement was a decentralized student movement – there was… Read More »Ivan Marovic: A Force More Powerful
Ed Castronova has a job that couldn’t have existed until very recently – he’s an economist of virtual worlds. His talk – “Gold from Thin… Read More »Ed Castronova: Making Gold out of Thin Air
My Berkman colleague Rebecca MacKinnon starts her Pop!Tech talk with a story about a small village outside of Beijing – Pu Sa Lu. In 1999,… Read More »Rebecca MacKinnon: What will China do to the Internet?
Oded Shenkar is the Ford Motor Company Chair in global business management at Fisher, the business school at Ohio State University. His recent research is… Read More »Oded Shenker – Are We Toast?
Suketu Mehta, an Indian author, gives us a tour of his hometown, Mumbai, as documented in his book, “Maximum City”. He’s returning, having left “Bombay”… Read More »A visit to the “City of Gold” with Suketu Mehta