This year's Worldcon is virtual, so you can easily attend! Zip on over to the CoNZealand website to get registered and attend any or all of the events below. Particularly of note for me this year, you can come to my reading, attend my Kaffeeklatsch, or join the discussion on my idea of "thalience."

Future
Laws

 Format:
Panel

29 Jul 2020,
Wednesday 10:00 - 10:50, Programme Room 1 (Webinar) (Programming)

Law changes when
the world changes. When you can duplicate a person, who owns the house? Which
one is married to the spouse? How do you define property when physical objects
are almost worthless but computing power is in short supply? Is it ethical to
genetically "correct" autism in the womb? We're going to have to
decide.

 

Future
Economics

 Format:
Panel

29 Jul 2020,
Wednesday 13:00 - 13:50, Programme Room 4 (Webinar) (Programming)

Will we ever fully
disentangle from the physical? Blockchains, crytocurrency, differently organic
sentinence. Will economic concepts of supply, demand, money, resources hold up?
Evolve? Or be completely different?  And what might they look like?

Kaffeeklatsch:
Karl Schroeder

Format:
Kaffeeklatsch

31 Jul 2020, Friday
13:00 - 13:50, Kaffeklatch and Literary Beer Room (Programming)

Would you like the
chance to video chat with nine other fans and a writer? Grab your favorite
beverage and sign up for a spot!

Reading:
Karl Schroeder

Format:
Reading

 2 Aug 2020, Sunday 09:30 - 09:55, Reading Room
2 (Programming)

 

The
Day After Tomorrow: Near Future SF

 

Format:
Panel

 2 Aug 2020, Sunday 11:00 - 11:50, Programme
Room 3 (Webinar) (Programming)

 

What are the
challenges of SF set in the near future? What are good examples?

Thalience
and Sentience

 2 Aug 2020, Sunday 13:00 - 13:50, Programme
Room 4 (Webinar) (Programming)

Thalience and
sentience. Is there really a difference? How do we tease it out?