Interviews, presentations, and panels from "2012: Stories From the Near Future," a conference held in New York on May 6-7, 2007: A talk by Malcolm Gladwell; Jeffrey Toobin talks with Tim Wu; John Seabrook talks with Will Wright; David Remnick talks with Cory A. Booker; Henry Finder talks with Jonathan Haidt; Ken Auletta talks with Barry Diller, Arianna Huffington, and Craig Newmark; a panel on environmental entrepreneurship, featuring D...
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Interviews, presentations, and panels from "2012: Stories From the Near Future," a conference held in New York on May 6-7, 2007: A talk by Malcolm Gladwell; Jeffrey Toobin talks with Tim Wu; John Seabrook talks with Will Wright; David Remnick talks with Cory A. Booker; Henry Finder talks with Jonathan Haidt; Ken Auletta talks with Barry Diller, Arianna Huffington, and Craig Newmark; a panel on environmental entrepreneurship, featuring Dan Barber, Marianne Cusato, and Adam Lowry, moderated by Larissa MacFarquhar; Mike McCready and Malcolm Gladwell discuss how technology that analyzes the mathematical patterns in songs can help the music business identify potential hits; the industrial designer Yves Behar talks with Judith Thurman about design and presents new commissions, as well as the One Laptop Per Child project; Younghee Jung of Nokia talks about what to expect next from your mobile phone, the newest ideas in the pipeline, and the questions that Nokia is asking women; James Surowiecki on the role of power in a time when change comes fast and furious and bottom-up innovation competes with our inherent desire to obey authority; Dr. Safi Bahcall of Synta Pharmaceuticals talks with Malcolm Gladwell about how mistakes lead to great scientific discoveries and how big drug companies hamper innovation; Zaha Hadid presents recent and future projects and talks with Paul Goldberger about how technology, globalization, and population growth affect architects; Dr. Anthony Atala, the director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, talks about his latest achievements in growing new human cells, tissues, and organs; Dr. Kari Stefansson, the founder of the biopharmaceutical company deCODE Genetics, talks with Michael Specter about his research into human genetics and its applications for drug development; a talk by Hans Ulrich Obrist, of the Serpentine Gallery in London, including predictions about the future from dozens of international artists; and Dennis Muren, the senior visual-effects supervisor for Industrial Light & Magic, talks with David Denby about his craft and his inspirations.
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