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(April 12, 2008)
Artificial Life, Synthetic Biology, and Evolution
I will collect some links to talks and documentaries about Artificial Life, Synthetic Biology, Evolution, and the like.Pop!Tech
This beautiful conference held yearly in Camden, Maine, tries to "accelerate the positive impact of world changing people and ideas." Among the main topics are social entrepreneurship, global change, cultural reflections, and arts. Audio and visual traces of the conference are available as podcasts here and here. Some of my personal favorites are:
- Alex Steffen, co-founder of worldchanging.com on revolutionary green technologies,
- Paleoclimatologist Richard Alley on global warming,
- Barry Schwartz' message cannot be described better than by his own words: "We can't have it all, and worse yet the desire to have it all and the illusion that we can is one of the principal sources of torture of modern affluent free and autonomous thinkers."
- Video game inventor Will Wright (SimCity, the Sims) about simulations and his attempts to create interesting games.
- Ben Saunders about his lonesome journey to the north-pole.
TED
"Ideas worth spreading" is the subtitle of this series of talks in Monterey, California. Here again some of my favorites:- Juan Emriquez on fossil and bioenergy
- Murray Gell-Mann on the beauty and truth in physics
- Lawrence Lessig, founder of creative commons, about copyright and the revival of the read-write-culture.