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"Where the Future is Hatched" - (San Francisco Chronicle)

"The Secret of Wikipedia" - (San Francisco Chronicle)

"SXSWi: Not Quite 20 Questions" - (The Bostonist)

"20x2: Adventures in Reality" - (Austin Chronicle)

"20x2: The Austin Chronicle Screens SXSW Interactive '04" - (Austin Chronicle)

"20x2 specializes in 2 minute mental aerobics" - (University of Texas Daily Texan)

What happens when you take twenty artists, designers, writers, musicians and bon vivants, give them each two minutes and the same question to answer, and turn them loose before a live audience?

This is the premise of 20x2, a staple of SXSW Interactive that marks its tenth show in Austin on March 12th. With each show, 20x2 asks twenty participants to each answer the same question in a two-minute time frame, before a live audience.

Now in its seventh year at SXSW, 20x2, version 7.0 (they're numbered like software releases, get it?) asks its participants "What If?"

One of the most popular evening events at SXSW Interactive, current participants include Mark Zupan (Murderball, the movie), Khoi Vinh (Design Director, The New York Times web site), Amanda Congdon (ABC), Evan Fleischer (The Independent Film Channel), Michael Lopp (Apple), Miles Zuniga (the band Fastball) and many other artists and visionaries.

What: 20x2, version 7.0
When: 7 pm (doors open at 6:30)
Where: The Parish above Jazz, Austin, 614 E. 6th St., SXSW
Free entry to SXSW badgeholders, $10 general public admission
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