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
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 Sam Harris is the author of the international bestseller, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason. He is a graduate in philosophy from Stanford University and has studied both Eastern and Western religious traditions, along with a variety of spiritual disciplines, for twenty years.
Sam is now completing a doctorate in neuroscience, studying the neural basis of belief, disbelief, and uncertainty with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). His work has been discussed in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Chicago Tribune, The Economist, The Guardian, The Independent, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, and many other journals. Sam makes regular appearances on television and radio to discuss the risks that religion now poses to modern societies. The End of Faith won the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction. Several foreign editions are in press.

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Bibliography:
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
http://www.samharris.org/
http://ravingatheist.com/archives/2004/11/interview_with_sam_harris_part_1.php
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