The presentations from the 34th Chaos Communication Congress (34C3) [media.ccc.de] are online now that the conference has concluded. The 34C3 [events.ccc.de] took place from December 27 through December 30, this time in Leipzig. The presentations were in English or German [events.ccc.de], with translations available from one to the other.
Some presentations are more technical, others not so much. One of the more popular non-technical presentations was author Charlie Stross on Dude, you broke the Future! [media.ccc.de]