It's an Idea

This year's Aspen Ideas Festival (June 28-July 4) is almost over, but you can still hear and watch some of the talks. No one can accuse the presenters of shying away from the hard topics ~ this year's theme is "Smart Solutions to the World's Toughest Challenges." There were sessions on North Korea, impact investing, urban innovators, Greece, race and policing, the environment, the Middle East, the aging brain, terrorism, mindfulness, prison reform, data ethics, nanotechnology, religious racism, coding, the Constitution, empathy, the politics of inequality, the fourth world, functional robotics, and the universe. For example. The speakers were too many for me to even attempt a representative list (website): http://www.aspenideas.org/
   As the festival is co-hosted by the Aspen Institute and The Atlantic, the magazine is carrying reports from the field: http://www.theatlantic.com/special-report/ideas-2015/