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

Steven Berlin Johnson is renowned for his ability to explain complicated and counterintuitive ideas cleverly without overwhelming readers. He is the author of the national bestseller, Mind Wide Open: Your Brain And The Neuroscience of Everyday Life. Featured on NPR's Fresh Air and in Reader's Digest, the book relates new brain science to our understanding of personality - using Steven's own personality as the test case.

Steven is also celebrated author of the acclaimed Interface Culture and Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software. The latter was on four prestigious "Best Book of the Year" lists and was named a New York Times Notable Book. It was a finalist for the 2002 Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism. His books have been translated into ten different languages.

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Steven is currently a contributing editor for Wired and a monthly columnist for Discover magazine, writing about politics, media, science, and technology. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, and many others. Steven was the cofounder and editor-in-chief of FEED, the revolutionary Internet magazine that managed to blend technology, science, and culture. He was named by Newsweek as one of the "Fifty People Who Matter Most on the Internet."

Steven is an avid speaker and has keynoted dozens of conferences and corporate retreats. He has spoken to the Homeland Security department about the war or terror, the BBC interactive division about the promise of new media, and delivered a keynote speech about the brain at Esther Dyson's PC Forum.

Bibliography:
Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter
Emergence: The Connected Life of Ants, Brains and Software
Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life
Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms The Way We Create and Communicate

http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/
http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/movabletype/archives/000230.html