Could an upside of Detroitification, the purposeful deindustrialization and depopulation of a once-great American city, be spelled Techonomy? David Kirkpatrick, a journalist turned media entrepreneur, thinks it might, and he's teaming with the Detroit Economic Club to find out. "Detroit is literally a green field for innovation," Kirkpatrick, the CEO of New York-based Techonomy Media Corp., said in an interview in advance of Wednesday's "Techonomy" conference at Wayne State University, co-sponsored with the Economic Club. "Detroit could be an incredible laboratory for transformation."

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