Faster Knob Twiddling

by Michael C. Mah

Every year in October, I head to Camden, Maine, USA, where the POP!Tech conference (http://www.poptech.org) is held at the beautifully restored Camden Opera House. I got hooked about five years ago when Cutter Business Technology Council Fellow Tom DeMarco urged me to attend, and I'm really glad that I did. (Tom is one of the conference creators, and most years he serves as host and moderator.) One reviewer described it by saying, "Pop!Tech isn't exactly a technology conference. It's more about life and technology's impact on it; about ethical decisionmaking in the Information Age, and how technology and humanity continuously change each other." Nicely put.