Dispatches from PopTech 2008
Reporter Greg Lamb spent the weekend at the PopTech conference in Camden, Maine. The annual gathering of up-and-coming innovators discussed everything from genetically modified crops to Internet piracy to聽finding forgiveness in Rwanda.
In case you missed Greg's , no worries, here's a walk back through our 2008 PopTech coverage.
PopTech conference lifts the lid on a cauldron of innovative ideas
This year鈥檚 PopTech theme is 鈥淪carcity and Abundance.鈥� You might think that the first is the problem, the latter the goal. As is often the case with PopTech, you鈥檙e likely to be surprised if you arrive with too many assumptions.
鈥楶roject M鈥� aims to combat AIDS using cellphones
Project Masiluleke (it means 鈥渢o give wise counsel鈥� and 鈥渓end a helping hand鈥� in Zulu) is a scheme to tap cellphone technology to try to raise AIDS awareness and promote testing.聽
鈥楩ree鈥� is here to stay on the Web
Music publishers seem to have the upper hand for the moment in cracking down on free sharing of music files. But the future of commerce on the Web continues to look as though 鈥渇ree鈥� will be a theme for a long time.
New ideas in fighting violence, finding forgiveness
Two of the speakers shared hopeful news from both the United States and Africa that cycles of violence can be broken.
