Wait no more:  details are set.  I’ve been doing a lot of copy writing lately, so I’m going to embed some videos to demonstrate what an awesome line-up we have.  Their official bios and pics are on the presenter bio page.  I’ll try to make something more expansive in terms of details in the coming days.

Here are our presenters:

Daniel Pinchbeck, author of bestselling book “2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl”,  will explain how a new consciousness can emerge out of the collapse of the self-evidently pathological economic and social systems of the status quo (see some of his writing at Reality Sandwich, a blog he helped co-found).  Check out this trailer for his forthcoming movie on the same topic.

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Dickson Despommier, Columbia Professor and founder of Vertical Farms, will presenting his vision of how to address growing urban populations with the need for feeding those populations in a sustainable manner.  Check out Dickson on the Colbert Report.

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And last but not least, Amanda Parkes of MIT’s Tangible Media Group, talking about non-anthropomorphized motion in robotics in the context of product design. In other words, she’ll be explaining how robotic motion will be as elemental in future products as their color and form.

The event will be held at SALT Art Space at 1160 Broaday (SE corner of 27th), doors open at 6:45 or so, presenter begin at 8:00 (please arrive before 8 to be seated and so forth).  $10 bucks at the door.  What else?  Wine and tap water served.  Light snacks.  BYO’s welcome.  See you there.