O'Reilly's Emerging Technology Conference is March 9 – 12 in San Jose, California. The schedule is stellar and sure to appeal to everyone's inner geek, whether your trip is social media, sensors, games, sustainability, urban computing, mobile art, demographics, open source culture, robots, or synthetic biology. Today only, O'Reilly is having an Inauguration Day Sale with 25% off registration for the conferece [reg code: et09obama]. The regular early registration discount ends next Monday. And conference chair Brady Forrest kindly offered BB readers a 10% discount if you register with the coupon code [et09boi]. Only one discount code can be used per ticket. The theme of this year's program is "The Technology of Abundance and Constraints":
We live in two worlds: one filled with abundance and the other with constraints. The abundant world has access to the Internet and other educational tools, to the latest advances in medicine and, up until recently, access to "plenty" of energy. The constrained world has to make do with what's available. With limited food, water, fuel, medicine, the people and their ideas are often the cheapest part of the equation.What technologies cross the divide? How do the two worlds interact and cross-pollinate? On the surface, they wouldn't seem to overlap but, on deeper examination, inhabitants of both worlds learn from each other constantly.
