9:00 a.m. Can We Imagine Our Way to a Better Future?
Neal Stephenson
Author, “Atmosphæra Incognita,” Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future
Author, Snow Crash and The Diamond Age
9:15 a.m. Delivery Drones and Robot Babysitters
Ryan Calo
Assistant Professor of Law, University of Washington
Patric Verrone
Writer and producer, Futurama
Dan Kaufman
Director, Information Innovation Office, DARPA
Moderator:
Kathryn Cramer
Editor, Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future
10:00 a.m. Who and What Will Get to Think in the Future?
Ted Chiang
Author, Stories of Your Life and Others
Moderator:
Ed Finn
Director, Center for Science and the Imagination, Arizona State University
10:20 a.m. Neuroscience and the Future of Ethics
Elizabeth Bear
Author, “Covenant,” Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future
Jonathan D. Moreno
David and Lyn Silfen University Professor of Ethics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Kathleen Ann Goonan
Author, “Girl in Wave: Wave in Girl,” Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future
Moderator:
Jamelle Bouie
Staff writer, Slate
11:05 a.m. Who Gets to Imagine for the Human Race?
Tom Kalil
Deputy Director for Policy, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
Laurie Silvers
Founder, SyFy Channel and Hollywood Media
Moderator:
Bill O’Brien
Senior Adviser for Program Innovation, National Endowment for the Arts
11:50 a.m. Lost in Space: How Should We Approach Our Final Frontier?
Ellen Stofan
Chief Scientist, NASA
Neal Stephenson
Author, “Atmosphæra Incognita,” Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future
Moderator:
Patric Verrone
Writer and producer, Futurama
12:35 p.m. Lunch
1:00 p.m. Reimagining the Future of the Internet, Surveillance, and Privacy
Barton Gellman
Reporter at the Washington Post covering the Snowden papers
Author, Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency
Madeline Ashby
Author, “By the Time We Get to Arizona,” Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future
Kevin Bankston
Policy Director, Open Technology Institute, New America Foundation
Moderator:
Kristal Lauren High
Co-founder and Editor in Chief, Politic365
1:45 p.m. Visions of an Alternative Internet
Lee Konstantinou
Author, “Johnny Appledrone vs. the FAA,” Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future
2:00 p.m. Can Stories Solve Wicked Problems that are Bigger than our Imagination?
Vandana Singh
Author, “Entanglement,” Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future
David Rejeski
Director, Science & Technology Innovation Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Karl Schroeder