PopTech: The World's Problems, as a Tag Cloud

CAMDEN, Maine — What is the biggest phenomenon today that will drive change tomorrow? The climate? Peak oil? Nuclear terrorism? Gay-marryin’ spotted owls? It’s just a tiny question that Chris Luebkeman — Director for Global Foresight and Innovation at the London-based engineering and design firm Arup — would like to ask. Luebkeman, whose firm is […]

00picture_2_6CAMDEN, Maine -- What is the biggest phenomenon today that will drive change tomorrow? The climate? Peak oil? Nuclear terrorism? Gay-marryin' spotted owls? It's just a tiny question that Chris Luebkeman -- Director for Global Foresight and Innovation at the London-based engineering and design firm Arup -- would like to ask.

Luebkeman, whose firm is helping to lay the plans for the first carbon neutral city in the world (Dongtan, China -- which Wired diagrammed and profiled in detail in May), posed this informal survey to the PopTech crowd today.

The voting booth is open for the next month. The tag cloud, like those uncanny Magic 8 balls, tells all.