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Recently while surfing I stumbled across a great site www.poptech.com. This is the site for Pop!Tech! a “thinkers” conference that happens every September in Camden, Maine. Apparently it is an eclectic (and electric) gathering of technologists, innovators, industry leaders, scientists, artists and educators. A Fortune 500 CEO can be found chatting about solar energy to an artist and according to the site “while an African blogger is deep in conversation with a polar explorer”.

I have now put attending Pop!Tech! on my “life list of musts”.

In the meantime, Pop!Tech! provides aptly named Pop!Casts! on its site. Through Creative Commons, the conference podcasts are available and the list of speakers is amazing - Malcolm Gladwell (”Blink”), Chris Anderson (”The Long Tail”).

For our last GCI book club session, we downloaded Thomas Friedman (”The World is Flat) sharing is argument with Pop!Tech! delegates on the inverse relationship between the price of oil and human rights. Compelling and provocative.

Check out Pop!Tech!. It’s great brain food.