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Technology Review's EmTech Conference brings together world-renowned innovators and senior business leaders to discuss the emerging technologies that are poised to make a dramatic impact on our world.

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Friday, September 26, 2008

Video Coverage of EmTech08

One-on-one interviews captured at the conference.
By TR Editors

Technology Review's Editor in Chief, Jason Pontin, and Beet.TV caught up with experts and conference speakers for exclusive interviews:

Gina Bianchini: Ning To Launch iPhone App Tomorrow

Fiscal Crisis: "Everyone in Technology is Terrified," MIT's Jason Pontin

Newsweek's "Real" Dan Lyons Pans Robert Scoble's Social Networking Panel at MIT

Vinod Khosla: Clean-Tech Is About Reinventing Society

You can also watch Technology Review's Webcasts of conference events like Craig Mundie's keynote and a panel on green transportation here.

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Wednesday, September 24, 2008

CNET Reports from EmTech08

Martin LaMoinca analyzes Vinod Khosla's keynote on renewable energy and a panel on "Green Transportation".
By TR Editors

Senior writer Martin LaMonica of CNET writes about Vinod Khosla, Founder of Khosla Ventures, keynote speech at Technology Review's Emerging Technologies Conference:

Khosla: Crazy clean-tech ideas yield breakthroughs
Famed investor Vinod Khosla is one of the clean-tech industry's most vocal cheerleaders. But most of today's clean technologies fall short of his 1-billion-car test.

"If it doesn't scale, it doesn't matter," says Khosla. "Most of what we talk about today--hybrid, biodiesel, ethanol, solar photovoltaics, geothermal--I believe are irrelevant to the scale of the problem" of climate change...read more

LaMonica also analyzes a panel discussion on green transportation and one of its panelist, JB Straubel, the chief technology officer of Tesla Motors:

What road to greener transportation?
The route to a less polluting car looks more like a multipoint intersection than a single superhighway, a panel of experts said on Wednesday.

The auto and fuels industries are in the midst of dramatic technological change, but it's still not clear how quickly which new technologies will be adopted...read more

Tesla's 'Bluestar' to be all-electric family car
Tesla Motors has received many accolades for producing an all-electric luxury sports car. But its long-term plans may hold its most challenging task: making a mass-market electric car...read more

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Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Conference News from Valleywag

Valleywag's Owen Thomas gives his opinions on EmTech08 happenings.
By TR Editors

Here are a few of the posts from Owen Thomas, managing editor of Valleywag.com:

Technology Review editor addicted to Twitter, gossip
I'm here in the hub of the universe for EmTech, a conference thrown by Technology Review, MIT's magazine of self-importance. Jason Pontin, who is the magazine's editor-in-chief, publisher, and whatever title he's added last week...read more

Ethanol investor wants to kill the electric car
At MIT's EmTech conference, venture capitalist Vinod Khosla made a shocking assertion: Electric cars are irrelevant. Unless some unlikely breakthrough in battery technology comes about...read more

Gina Bianchini lurks outside the walled garden
"That is not my presentation, although it would be very sexy if it were," said Ning CEO Gina Bianchini, as she took the stage at MIT's EmTech conference here, with someone else's Windows desktop blown up on a screen behind her...read more

A gigantic picture of Robert Scoble for no reason
Fast Company videoblogger Robert Scoble, who has discovered in the Web a popularity which escaped him in high school, has been moderating a panel...read more

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