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This Week in PopTech: OK Go, Auditory Collages, Ultragreen Packaging

Emily Qualey ( Bio / Posts ) | Friday, June 18, 2010 UTC

Happenings:

We are over the moon to announce OK Go as our first performers for PopTech 2010. OK Go just released their latest music video — we know this one’s going viral.
WATCH: End Love

We released videos from the Chicago Salon that present ideas about how networked mapping and the innovative application of multiple technologies can more deeply reveal the dynamics of problems as well as drive social change.
READ AND WATCH: Visualizing Data to Drive Social Change

We were moved by Ocean Voices’ ethereal auditory collages.
LISTEN: Ocean Voices

We loved this quote by Joel Garreau: “Innovative cultures have in them fables of ‘honorable failure.’ — knowing losing as winning.”
FAILURE QUOTES

We were proud to learn that Steelcase has adopted 2009 Fellow, Eben Bayer’s biobased, ultragreen packaging.
WATCH: Bio-packaging

We read about why Tom Friedman thinks that we are both the enemy and the solution to the oil disaster.
READ: This Time is Different

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