Alex Steffen, Writer and Foresight Consultant, Worldchanging
Alex is an environmental journalist, covering everything from Japan’s fast breeder reactor program to the...
Blaine Brownell, Sustainable Building Advisor, NBBJ
Blaine Brownell is an architect, sustainable building advisor, and researcher of materials with NBBJ in...
Brian Eno and Will Wright
Both Eno and Wright discussed the idea of emergent and regenerative systems. It was a...
Brian Eno, Ambient Music Innovator
Brian Eno is an ambient music pioneer, glam rocker, hit producer, multimedia artist and technological...
Bruce Sterling, Science Fiction Writer
Bruce Sterling is best known for his eight science fiction novels, though he also writes...
Carolyn Porco, NASA's Cassini Mission
Carolyn Porco made an unscheduled stop by the Pop!Tech stage on Friday to stun this...
Chef Homaro Cantu, Moto
Chef Homaro Cantu, 29, is blazing a trail into the new era of postmodern cuisine....
Chris Anderson, Editor in Chief, Wired Magazine
Chris Anderson has been editor in chief of Wired magazine since 2001. Since then he...
Clifford Ross
Clifford Ross takes pictures with a remarkable camera—one that he invented—which yields the highest-resolution, single-shot...
Erin McKean, Lexicographer
More photos on Flickr.Erin McKean is the editor-in-chief of American Dictionaries for Oxford University Press,...
Hasan Elahi, interdisciplinary artist
Assistant Professor, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers UniversityHasan Elahi is an interdisciplinary artist...
J. Craig Venter, geneticist
J. Craig Venter, one of leading scientists of the 21st century, is known for his...
Juan Enriquez, CEO, Biotechonomy
Juan Enriquez is a senior research fellow and director of the Harvard Business School Life...
Kent Nichols, Evil Genius, Beatbox Giant Production, LLC
Kent Nichols is a storyteller, technology geek, and goofball. The co-creator of AskANinja.com, a popular...
Kevin Kelly, technofuturist writer
Kevin Kelly is the founding executive editor of Wired magazine, and a former editor/publisher of...
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Professor, Princeton University
Kwame Anthony Appiah is an expert on ethics, race, philosophy and African history and culture...
Lester Brown, President, Earth Policy Institute
[ see video | MP3 ]Lester Brown, preeminent environmentalist and former leader of WorldWatch Institute,...
Marianne Weems, Artistic Director, The Builders Association
Marianne Weems is artistic director of the New York-based performance and media ensemble The Builders...
Martin Marty, Scholar, University of Chicago
Martin Marty is the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of...
Micah Garen & Marie-Hélène Carleton , Documentary Filmakers, Four Corners Media
Documentary filmmaker Micah Garen was taken hostage by a radical Shiite group in Iraq and...
Neema Mgana, Director, African Regional Youth Initiative (ARYI)
Neema Mgana was the youngest of 1,000 women from around the world jointly nominated for...
Q & A
from Pop!Tech Wiki...Both Juan Enriquez and Thomas Barnett are thinking about maps: what they reveal...
Richard Dawkins, Professor, Oxford University
Richard Dawkins is an eminent British ethologist, evolutionary theorist, and popular science writer who holds...
Robert Freling, Executive Director, Solar Electric Light Fund
Just when things were beginning to look a little grim, Robert Freling arrived on...
Roger Brent, geneticist
Roger Brent is a geneticist and head of the Molecular Sciences Institute in Berkeley. Roger...
Stewart Brand, Co-chairman of the Board of Directors, The Long Now Foundation
Stewart Brand viewed the question of a bright green future through the lens of increasing...
The Sun Microsystems Education Fellows
[More photos on Flickr.]Working in collaborative alliance with Pop!Tech and Curriki, Sun selected Fellows from...
The Yes Men
The Yes Men are a group of performance activists. They impersonate powerful people and spokespersons...
Thomas Barnett, Senior Managing Director, Enterra Solutions
Thomas Barnett is an internationally recognized expert and strategic planner in national security affairs. His...
Thomas Fiedman, columnist, The New York Times
It's impossible to discuss a green future without in some way accounting for the voracious...
Welcome by curator, Andrew Zolli
WHAT’S ‘DANGEROUS’? What do we mean by dangerous ideas? In the most straightforward sense, they’re things that...
Will Wright, Chief Designer and Founder, Maxis
Will is one of the most successful designers of interactive entertainment in the world. Credited...
Will Wright, Chief Designer and Founder, Maxis
From Will Wright’s point of view, we can gain a complex way of understanding the...
Zinhle Thabethe
Zinhle Thabethe is an HIV activist in South Africa and a member of the Sinikithemba...
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