
REQUIRES
FLASHPLAYER PLUG-IN |
|
Rethinking
Human Nature: new disciplines are changing the very way
we understand ourselves, our minds, and our judgments. What does
the next human nature look like? |
|
|
|
|
|
| Introduction |
Malcolm-Gladwell |
de-Waal |
Joel-Garreau |
|
The
Global Creative: is the next economy the creative economy?
What will it take to creatively compete and solve the world's
problems? How does Design (in the 'big D' sense of the world)
influence the terrain? |
|
|
|
|
|
| Richard-Florida |
Jim-Rygiel |
Human-Nature |
Bruce-Mau |
global-creativity |
Emerging
Worldviews : After Iraq, what next? Where are the world's
next wars going to be fought? What do global trends in declining
birth rates and aging populations mean for security, resources
and developing nations? |
|
|
|
|
|
| Joseph-Chamie |
Thomas-Barnett |
Phillip-Longman |
Emerging-Worldviews |
|
Happiness:
What is the happiest culture in the world, and how did it inspire
the world's largest book? Who can combine the dicipline of disco
moves with entering the Department of Homeland Security logo context?
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Alex-Steffan |
Ze-Frank |
Mike-Hawley |
|
|
The
New Naturalism: Nature can be an extraordinary source
of wisdom and invention, and now we've got the tools to listen
and learn. |
|
|
|
|
|
| Jeanine-Benyus.jpg
|
Tom-Daniel.jpg
|
New-Naturalism.jpg
|
|
|
New
Explorers: Who's pushing the limits of human potential
through endurance exhibitions to the North Pole, Greenland and
Antarctica? Why? What is the true genetic path of our ancestors?
What can we learn from genetic sampling of the world's "indigenous"
populations. |
|
|
|
|
|
| Ben-Saunders |
Spencer-Wells |
|
|
|
Big
Weather: We've heard a lot about the climate and climate
change these days - we'll get an objective look at the science,
challenges, and implications of Big Weather. |
|
|
|
|
|
| Brian-Fagan |
Alexis-Rockman |
Richard-Alley |
Big-Weather |
|
Less-is-More-is-Less:
What is it about humans that drives us to seek more variation,
more wealth, more selection, yet fills us with regret and remorse?
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Grant-McCracken |
Barry-Schwartz |
Less-is-More-is-Less |
|
|
New
Solutions: In a world as connected as ours, what are
the world's most important developmental challenges? Poverty?
Education? AIDS? We'll get a to-do list from those in-the-know.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Ethan-Zuckermen |
David-Bornstein |
|
|
|
Connected
Politics: Pop!Tech 2004 is just 10 days before the election.
We'll take an in-depth look at how new technologies have reshaped
the process and experience of politics and democracy. |
|
|
|
|
|
| Joe-Trippi |
Adrian-Wooldridge |
Andrew-Rasiej |
Connected-Politics |
|
Renaissance
Prospects: What can a critique of our age's media teach
us about the creative rebirth that we are striving for? |
 |
 |
|
| Zero
Boy |
Doug
Rushkoff |
|
|
|
| return
to top |