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The first trio of the PopTech conference’s friday morning session on DIGITAL FREEDOMS..Chris Anderson, Editor-in-Chief, of Wired, Clay Shirky, of NYU, and Matt Mason, Author of The Pirate’s Dilemma: How Youth Culture is Reinventing Capitalism, STIMULATED a really BIG question about designing systems for generosity. Anderson started it with a singularly clear and compelling explanation of the NON MONETARY economies of ATTENTION and REPUTATION and showed how they are converted into authentic generous behaviors like HYPERLINKS, leading to TRAFFIC and then ADS and hence get converted...
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Once again, the wide ranging discussion cum conference that is PopTech continues its drumbeat from the Opera House in Camden Maine. Tune in! Even if you miss it live you can hear it, download it, podcast your way through it.
This year’s theme is appropriately, SCARCITY AND ABUNDANCE,
You can get an incredible sampling of wide ranging and quite remarkable conversations that are happening at PopTech at live.poptech.org
Photo Credits:Shashi Bellamkonda
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Any thoughts to what it is? You guessed it (as if the combination of words didn’t give it away) - it’s the art of making objects entirely out of cans. By why would the architecture world be so enthused about construction with cans? Because 1) its for charity and 2) its a challenge! The foundation of the Society for Design Administration holds this nation-wide competition, where teams of architects, engineers, and students mentored by these professionals, compete to design and build giant structures made entirely from full cans of food. After the results are on display in their...
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