Pop!Tech 9
Oct. 19-22, 2005

Seeing What’s There
Graham Flint
Bob Hanner

It’s Alive!
Norman Packard
Theo Jansen

Mind and Body
Todd Kuiken
Jesse Sullivan
Ze Frank

Explorer’s Club
Peter Diamandis
Marcia McNutt
Carolyn Porco

People, Place, and Planet
Mark Lynas

East Meets West
Oded Shenkar
Rebecca MacKinnon

Serious Games
Edward Castronova
Ivan Marovic
Steven Berlin Johnson
Davy Rothbart

The Participation Revolution
Nicholas Negroponte
Yochai Benkler
Ingo Gunther

Habitats
Suketu Mehta
Robert Neuwirth

Big Fixes
Cameron Sinclair
Bunker Roy
Neil Gershenfeld

The Future of Ideas
Sam Harris
Susan Blackmore

What Do We Know?
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Robert Trivers

Summary
Bob Metcalfe

The Future of Africa
Panel Discussion

Post-modern crooner Ethan Lipton writes sidesplitting songs of love, loss and alienation among the invisible classes. Often compared to Tom Lehrer and Randy Newman, Ethan's tunes have thrilled crowds around New York and beyond with their unpredictable wit and unreliable narrators.

NPR's Weekend Edition called his songs "twisted, dark, sophisticated, hilarious, schleppy and sad all at once," and Popmatters celebrated a "sardonic voice that offers an unlikely kind of comfort against the vagaries of everyday life." Ethan's debut CD A New Low has developed a cult following, and will be followed this September by the release of his sophomore effort, Baby, I Feel the Same Way.

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A playwright by trade, Ethan's plays have been performed in Los Angeles, New York and Scotland. At Pop!Tech, he will joined in the Orchestra by the inimitable Mike Stumm on ukulele.

http://www.ethanlipton.com/
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1615555