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PopTech is a great site similar to TED. It is a one-of-a-kind conference, a community of remarkable people, and an ongoing conversation about science, technology and the future of ideas. Below are some recent and past presentations.

Pop sociologist and best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell has honed in on a profound new question: what separates extraordinary and average people? Discussing findings from his much-anticipated book “Outliers,” Gladwell details how we’re squandering human potential everywhere from the football field to the classroom – and what we can do to change it. Watch video here.

Provocateur Daniel Pink has built a career on his keen insights into business, technology and the economy. Engaging, enlightening and funny, the best-selling author heralds a new job market—one that devalues the logical and rule-based in favor of the artistic, empathic and inventive. Watch video here.

Internet guru Clay Shirky has a unique ability to present the chaos of the Web in stunningly clear terms, as he does here, documenting what a “spontaneously, self-assembling, online philanthropic venture” tells us about the nature of human motivation. Listen as he explains the concept of “designing for generosity,” and what we can learn about it from the Josh Groban Foundation, Napster and a top online mobile phone forum. Watch video here.