At the Technology Entertainment Design conference, over 900 entrepreneurs, technologists, and financiers paid $4,400 each to participate in a series of presentations emphasizing the future technological creativity. The event was held to identify issues that include global warming and global health, to promote technology in ways the advance specific solutions, and to back initiatives already moving in such directions. At the conference, it was pointed out that Asians, including Chinese, will change cyberspace, and are part of a tectonic shift in the global economic balance of power. Nicholas Negroponte of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT's) updated attendees on his scheme to build and distribute $100 laptop computers to students globally, and documentary filmmaker Gregory Colbert described his plan to create an animal copyright campaign that would seek a royalty from advertisers who use animal images to sell products (with proceeds going to environmental and animal rights grants). Penelope Boston of New Mexico Tech's theory that there is a one in four chance that microscopic life will be found on Mars and called for development of a new generation of ant-like robotic sensors that run as a swarm and will not be stopped by obstacles. Helen Fisher of Rutgers University's comment on her believe that the movement of women back to the workplace is a worldwide phenomenon that will make marriage more equitable--and return society to a time in early human development when woman, the gatherer, was equal to man, the hunter.