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Innosight Director of Learning Programs Tara Donovan Young pointed out the following exhibition, which opens today down at the Smithsonian and sounds likely to be chock full of potentially disruptive solutions --

Design for the Other 90%

May 4, 2007 - September 23, 2007

This exhibition focuses on the growing need to create affordable, sustainable means for survival for the 90% of the world's population who lack the means to purchase even the most basic goods. Affordable design innovations include inexpensive treadle water pumps, a low-cost drip irrigation system, and Nicholas Negroponte's $100 computer, among other works.

If anyone gets a chance to go we'd love to hear about it.