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Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Conference Pt 2 [Video] 

by Catherine Laine
October 27th, 2007

Ashok Gadgil

On designing the cook stoves for Darfur


On the elegant simplicity of appropriate technology


Peter Haas

A Genius in Every Village


A Renaissance in Tinkering


Jock Brandis

On the weaknesses of solar cooking technology. I missed the first sentence or so of this, but he’s fairly spot on.


On the fallacy that new is always better.


Jock Brandis retells a story from Burt Rutan, famed aviator, that reveals a common misconception about technological progress: old is sub-par, new is better.

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