Drew Purves

Hunger, Health and the Future of Food

Session Description: Feeding the world is, according to some, well within our grasp. Vast new indoor farms are being built around the world. Some say it will allow us to “program plants.” And genetic alteration...

Innovating Our Selves

Wohlsen: Welcome everyone to this session of The Techonomy Labs, this is “Innovating Our Selves.” You know, I first encountered the idea of the post-human back in, I think, the mid-90s. I think I read...

180° Shift: What Really Drove the Green Revolution

Purves: Hi, I’m Drew Purves from Microsoft Research. It’s because of the green revolution that most of the world is relatively well fed today. We now grow several times more food per acre than we...

Techonomy 15

Technology as scapegoat has driven fears since at least the industrial revolution. That is as true as ever today, with fears of privacy intrusion, our devices inducing inattention, withdrawal from human contact into screens, job-killing...

Techonomy 14

This year Techonomy moves to the beautiful Ritz-Carlton Half Moon Bay, November 9-11, on the cliffs south of San Francisco, near Silicon Valley.