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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
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
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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