And it’s almost WisCon again. This year I’m on two panels:
Celebrating the Fabulous Work of Pat Cadigan, Queen of Cyberpunk
Saturday, 10:00-11:15 a.m.
SF writer Pat Cadigan’s novels take us inside the lives of cybernetic therapists, cops, media artists, and even the dead. Cadigan’s futures are both fantastic and believable, intertwining virtual and real worlds in a way now part of the lives of many geeks. While science fiction has a lousy track record predicting the future, Cadigan’s novels and stories anticipate the questions we’re dealing with in our blogs and “Second Lives”.
M: Maureen Kincaid Speller, Fred Schepartz, Margaret McBride, Bill Humphries, Penny Hill
I wish we would have had this panel last year when Pat came out from London for WisCon 30. Still, a wonderful reason to reread Mindplayers, and Synners
Outsourcing And The Auxiliary Brain
Saturday, 2:30-3:45 p.m.
Your meat brain has only so much capacity, and it wasn’t designed for a technological society. But suppose you could pop in a small, high-tech auxiliary brain to augment your natural abilities. Where would that lead? To what degree is it a good idea to outsource your brain?
Melissa Scott, M: Kimberley Long-Ewing, Jordin T. Kare, Bill Humphries, R. Emrys Gordon
We’re already doing that with Google hosting our email, blogs, and documents. Shelley Powers discovered one danger in outsourcing your memory. We can remember it for you wholesale, indeed. Insist on open source, because it’d be a downer to have to pay Redmond or Mountain View to remember the birth of your first child.
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