Marketplace Tech for Monday, June 9, 2014
On today's show, Ben Howard, VP of Programming for Gamespot, with a preview of what to expect from this week’s E3 video game conference. Plus, Ariel Waldman, the founder of spacehack.org, talks about citizen science and how the tech industry is changing the scientific community. And hear more about a town in Pakistan that creates 80% of the world’s soccer balls. A group of notable economists got together to use it as a laboratory to test how best to introduce innovation.
On today’s show, Ben Howard, VP of Programming for Gamespot, with a preview of what to expect from this week’s E3 video game conference. Plus, Ariel Waldman, the founder of spacehack.org, talks about citizen science and how the tech industry is changing the scientific community. And hear more about a town in Pakistan that creates 80% of the world’s soccer balls. A group of notable economists got together to use it as a laboratory to test how best to introduce innovation.
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