Pop!Tech 2006

Stewart Brand has been a big thinker for a long, long time. The founder of the Global Business Network, the editor of the Whole Earth… Read More »Stewart Brand on Green Romanticism

Lester Brown is the author of Plan B 2.0 and the president of the Earth Policy Institute. He’s interested in the radical rethinking we need… Read More »Lester Brown – conservation, not ethanol

After lunch, we’re serenaded by Rodrigo y Gabriella, who play flamenco-styled music with the passion of their Mexican thrash-metal background. Then Ze Frank introduces the… Read More »Thomas Friedman – Green is the New Red White and Blue

Hasan Elahi is a conceptual artist whose life is an ongoing work about surveillance. He starts by telling us a chilling story – his detention… Read More »Keep an eye on Hasan Elahi

Marianne Weems is the artistic director of The Builders Association, a New York based theatre group that’s interested in bringing technology onto the stage, looking… Read More »The Builders Association

Kevin Kelly acknowledges that he believes in a dangerous idea – technological determinism, the idea that our technology shapes and determines who we are and… Read More »Kevin Kelly on technological determinism