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Mark O'Connor was invited to present at the international event bringing scientists, innovator and technologists together - PopTech.
Mark challenged the audience of scientists to name a "contraption" (a complex system structured so as to accomplish a specific goal) that had been designed 400 years ago but never improved upon. After a pause, a few "joke" answers were shouted; "wheel," "ice cream." Of course these are not contraptions! The wheel can be attached to a contraption, or the single part of one...Ice Cream was made by a contraption perhaps, and nevertheless is not 400 years old. At the conclusion of the segment there was an inaudible suggestion of "chopsticks" which is not a contraption either of course, just two separate carved sticks. So the point was observed!
About PopTech
We're a global community of innovators, working together to expand the edge of change.
We live in an era in which humanity's capabilities-and our challenges-are progressing faster than most of us can comprehend. As we confront the major issues of our century, we've never had better tools at our disposal, or a more pressing need to use them wisely.
Yet most efforts to create positive change remain locked in 'silos of excellence': public health experts talk (mostly) to other public health experts; designers talk to other designers; technologists talk to other technologists, and so on. This approach slows the spread of innovation from field to field, limits our awareness of what tools are even available, and throttles the pace of change.
At a glance:
PopTech brings together a global community of innovators from many fields to share insights and work together to create lasting change.
Our Fellows programs for social innovators and scientists identify and train some of the world's most promising talent.
Our Labs bring together curated and diverse experts to work together on areas of critical significance.
Our Initiatives incubate high-impact, collaborative and new approaches to some of the world's toughest problems.
Our annual conferences and events are among the highest rated in the United States.
The genius in the whitespaces
PopTech takes a different approach. We bring innovators together from many different fields-science, technology, design, corporate and civic leadership, public health, social and ecological innovation, and the arts and humanities, among others-in a network that complements the silos.
We convene this community in intimate, peer-level gatherings where participants can share their most provocative questions and their most promising new ideas, and begin to work together on new approaches to some of the world's toughest challenges. In so doing, we constantly seek out the 'genius in the white spaces,'-insights that can only be discovered when people from very diverse disciplines come together, and concepts from one field are 'mashed up' with those from another.
By design, all of our PopTech programs-from our Labs that investigate new domains with disruptive potential to one of our renowned annual conferences-share this eclectic and visionary spirit.
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