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The New Yorker Conference, “Stories from the Near Future,” took place on May 8 and 9, 2008. Here is an archive of videos from the event.
- Reinventing Invention
- Malcolm Gladwell on the challenge of hiring in the modern world.
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- How Bad Is It?
- Michael Novogratz talks with Nick Paumgarten about the long-term effects of a shifting economy.
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- The Post-American World
- Fareed Zakaria and David Remnick discuss democracy, modernity, and what it means to be a superpower.
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- Coming Soon
- Peter Gelb talks with Alex Ross about the appeal of opera in modern culture.
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- True Stories
- Sheila Nevins and Jeffrey Toobin discuss the art of documentary filmmaking.
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- The Knockoff Economy
- Scott Hemphill and Kal Raustiala talk with James Surowiecki about the effect pirated goods have on the fashion industry.
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- Securing the City
- New York City Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly discusses anti-terrorism tactics.
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- The Tanning of America
- Steve Stoute talks with Kelefa Sanneh about marketing to a new generation of consumers.
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- Saving the World Through Game Design
- Jane McGonigal talks with Daniel Zalewski about alternate-reality gaming.
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- The Past, Present, and Future of Humor
- Robert Mankoff, the cartoon editor of The New Yorker, discusses the concept of humor throughout history.
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- Deconstructing the Airport
- Paco Underhill talks with Malcolm Gladwell about how to remake air travel for the twenty-first century.
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- The Politics of Glamour
- Francesco Vezzoli talks with Michael Specter about cinema, kitsch, celebrity, and democracy.
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- Humanitarian Engineering
- Amy Smith talks with Rebecca Mead about applying new technology in the developing world.
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- The Forever Campaign
- Rahm Emanuel talks to Ryan Lizza about the Democratic primaries, Hillary Clinton’s future, and what the first hundred days of the Obama Administration might look like.
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- 23 and You
- Linda Avey and Anne Wojcicki talk with Michael Specter on genetics.
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- The Green City
- San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom talks with Dana Goodyear on what it means to be green in politics and in the world.
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- A More Perfect Union
- James Surowiecki discusses the future of the labor movement with Andy Stern, the president of the Service Employees International Union.
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- Creative Intelligence
- Jane Mayer talks with Eric Haseltine, the former chief technology officer of the U.S. intelligence community.
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- Neurobotics
- Yoky Matsuoka, the director of the neurobotics laboratory at the University of Washington, discusses how brain signals can control prosthetic limbs, and other advances in the hybrid field of neuroscience and robotics.
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- Making Musicals Rock
- Duncan Sheik talks with Susan Morrison about “Spring Awakening” and reinventing the American musical.
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- Constructing Culture
- David Adjaye talks with Thelma Golden about architecture in contemporary culture and what buildings can be in the twenty-first century.
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- Playing with Fire
- Bill Buford talks with the chefs David Chang, Daniel Humm, and Marc Taxiera about their influences and the future of the culinary world.
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