PopTech Audio: PopCasts show

PopTech Audio: PopCasts

Summary: PopTech is an extraordinary three-day summit bringing together 550 visionary thinkers in the sciences, technology, business, design, the arts, education, social development, government, and culture to explore the cutting-edge ideas, emerging technologies and new forces of change that are shaping our collective future. Now you can take the energy and inspiration that is PopTech with you anywhere, with these video and audio podcasts. PopCasts let you join the conversation and engage in the extraordinary work that had its start in Camden , Maine . Are you ready to accept the challenges issued by the thinkers and innovators who move PopTech audiences, year after year?

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Podcasts:

 Thomas Barnett: National security | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2402

Strategist and expert on national security affairs Tom Barnett takes command and focuses in on the role of the United States in a geopolitical world of “core” and “gap” states. As you were, soldier.

 Serena Koenig: Global healthcare inequalities | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1380

Dr. Serena Koenig, director of Haiti programs for Partners in Health, isn’t afraid to ask the searing questions, especially about global inequalities in health care. With a simple philosophy—equal lives deserve equal treatment—she addresses the dilemma head-on.

 Neil Gershenfeld: MIT’s Fab Lab | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1586

Twenty minutes may not really be enough time to fully understand the implications of the so-called Fab Lab, invented by the director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms. But it’s a mind-blowing place to start!

 Carolyn Porco on the Cassini mission to Saturn | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2566

As leader of the Imaging Science Team on the Cassini mission to Saturn, Carolyn Porco brings to the Pop!Tech stage breathtaking images and stories of exploration and discovery that, by her own admission, make grown men cry.

 Thomas Friedman: Energy in crisis | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1135

You may know Tom Friedman as a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and author, but a fashionista?! Well, sort of. Tom purports that green is the new red, white and blue, and that our current energy crisis is like no other.

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