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Making invention a legitimate career choice is what Pablos Holman claims at the beginning of his talk. For thirty minutes he takes us on a tour around stunning and amazing inventions created by the Intellectual Venture Lab. While picking locks may come in handy, possible answers to fighting malaria, hurricanes or what to do with nuclear waste are impressive. Inventions can change the world and it feels like it can be saved after all. I don't know about you but it doesn't seem like being an inventor is a too bad career choice.

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Do we actually maintain online relationships or are they just relations? Brian Solis argues for the latter. He believes that we are moving into a state of relations rather than relationships, defining a new era of society. We may be connected to people who we don't know but think alike and have the same interests. Groups start to form around context while creating value for everyone. And context in social networking actually defines the nature of relations and how we interact with each other.

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Dreams have been around for a very long time. Karlheinz Brandenburg is a man whose dream came true with the invention of the digital audio technologies MP3 and MPEG. They set new game changing standards. The recipe for a true game changer involves several ingredients: trying to do the impossible, to rely on teamwork, to listen to the market and of course not to give up. If you do that and season it with a touch of luck, you've got good chances to get there.

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