2015 Schedule
Interactive: March 13–17  •  Film: March 13–21  •  Music: March 17–22

Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper

Monday, March 16
3:00PM - 3:20PM

Austin Convention Center
Ballroom G
Austin Convention Center

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In the face of today’s environmental and economic challenges, doomsayers preach that the only way to stave off disaster is for humans to reverse course: to de-industrialize, re-localize, ban the use of modern energy sources, and forswear prosperity. But in this provocative and optimistic rebuke to the catastrophists, Robert Bryce shows how innovation and the inexorable human desire to make things Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper is providing consumers with cheaper and more abundant energy, faster computing, lighter vehicles, and myriad other goods. That same desire is fostering unprecedented prosperity, greater liberty, and yes, better environmental protection.

Utilizing on-the-ground reporting from Ottawa to Panama City and Pittsburgh to Bakersfield, Bryce shows how we have, for centuries, been pushing for Smaller Faster solutions to our problems. From the vacuum tube, mass-produced fertilizer, and the printing press...

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Presenters

Robert Bryce

Author/journalist/speaker

robertbryce.com

Details

Access
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Type
Book Reading
Theme
Global Impact and Policy
Level
Intermediate

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