Doug holds forth!!
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gridloreYes, my preliminary Baycon schedule! Know fear, and attend my panels!
The whole shebang is available here.
Date&time Room Title Description, panelists (M for moderator), my comments
Friday 1730 Bayshore The Coming Robot Wars Predator drones now carry missiles. DARPA is testing military robots. Have we reached a point where SkyNet is unavoidable? Or will we be able to control our newest creations? And will we ever be able to remove the human element from the battlefield?
Doug Berry (M), Ed Green, G. David Nordley, Tory Parker
This should be a good one. I know Ed and Gerry well, and we do fun things on panels.
Saturday 1130 Bayshore The Adventures of Audie Murphy in the 23rd Century Military science fiction frequently features characters, politics, and technology that have the feel of something from several centuries in the past. Does history really repeat itself? Is the reality of future warfare is too boring to make good fiction? Or are the writers just too lazy to be creative?
Ed Green (M), Doug Berry, Andrew Clark, Linda Clements, Ed Muller
I have several things to say here, as you'd well imagine.
Saturday 1300 Stevens Creek When the Last Paper Dies The newspaper industry is staggering; papers are folding across the country and more people are turning to blogs and podcasts for news. Is this a good thing? Is traditional media being replaced by a mass network of citizen-reporters, or are we sinking into a chaotic mess of agenda-driven websites. What happens to investigative journalism in the next 20 years?
Doug Berry (M), John De Cles, Deirdre Saoirse Moen, Deborah J. Ross, Michael Sarkisian, Lorrie Wood
This one was my idea. I love the concept of technological extinction and how it changes society.
Sunday 1900 Camino Real The Graveyard of Empires For nearly eight years, US and NATO forces have been fighting in Afghanistan, a battleground that hastened the fall of the Soviet Union and has been frustrating would-be conquerors all the way back to Alexander the Great. Why is this desolate area so vital? And why is it so hard to defeat the locals?
Doug Berry (M), Walter Kleine, G. David Nordley
Another one of mine. Reading military history really makes you appreciate just how rugged the area and people are.
Monday 1130 Lafayette Floating Islands and Lost Cities in History and Literature The world is littered with Lost Cities and Floating Islands, both real and fictional. The tales of how they were lost and later found are as intriguing as anything that Spielberg directed for the screen.
Kage Baker (M), Doug Berry, ElizaBeth Gilligan, Valerie Frankel, Verna McKinnon, Lorrie Wood
This is a merging of two panel ideas. I've done a good deal of research on lost cities, so should have a blast.
Hotel map here Warning! PDF!
The whole shebang is available here.
Date&time Room Title Description, panelists (M for moderator), my comments
Friday 1730 Bayshore The Coming Robot Wars Predator drones now carry missiles. DARPA is testing military robots. Have we reached a point where SkyNet is unavoidable? Or will we be able to control our newest creations? And will we ever be able to remove the human element from the battlefield?
Doug Berry (M), Ed Green, G. David Nordley, Tory Parker
This should be a good one. I know Ed and Gerry well, and we do fun things on panels.
Saturday 1130 Bayshore The Adventures of Audie Murphy in the 23rd Century Military science fiction frequently features characters, politics, and technology that have the feel of something from several centuries in the past. Does history really repeat itself? Is the reality of future warfare is too boring to make good fiction? Or are the writers just too lazy to be creative?
Ed Green (M), Doug Berry, Andrew Clark, Linda Clements, Ed Muller
I have several things to say here, as you'd well imagine.
Saturday 1300 Stevens Creek When the Last Paper Dies The newspaper industry is staggering; papers are folding across the country and more people are turning to blogs and podcasts for news. Is this a good thing? Is traditional media being replaced by a mass network of citizen-reporters, or are we sinking into a chaotic mess of agenda-driven websites. What happens to investigative journalism in the next 20 years?
Doug Berry (M), John De Cles, Deirdre Saoirse Moen, Deborah J. Ross, Michael Sarkisian, Lorrie Wood
This one was my idea. I love the concept of technological extinction and how it changes society.
Sunday 1900 Camino Real The Graveyard of Empires For nearly eight years, US and NATO forces have been fighting in Afghanistan, a battleground that hastened the fall of the Soviet Union and has been frustrating would-be conquerors all the way back to Alexander the Great. Why is this desolate area so vital? And why is it so hard to defeat the locals?
Doug Berry (M), Walter Kleine, G. David Nordley
Another one of mine. Reading military history really makes you appreciate just how rugged the area and people are.
Monday 1130 Lafayette Floating Islands and Lost Cities in History and Literature The world is littered with Lost Cities and Floating Islands, both real and fictional. The tales of how they were lost and later found are as intriguing as anything that Spielberg directed for the screen.
Kage Baker (M), Doug Berry, ElizaBeth Gilligan, Valerie Frankel, Verna McKinnon, Lorrie Wood
This is a merging of two panel ideas. I've done a good deal of research on lost cities, so should have a blast.
Hotel map here Warning! PDF!
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Date: 17 May 2009 19:56 (UTC)no subject
Date: 19 May 2009 04:07 (UTC)I'll see you there. :)
-kat