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Preliminary Program Grid for John Ashmead This is the Preliminary program schedule. John Ashmead may or may not actually be on these items, but probably will. However, due to circumstances beyond our control, modifications to the program can occur throughout the convention.

Saturday 10:00 am: The Future of AI (Ends at: 10:55 am) Eisenhower Participants:John Ashmead, Elektra Hammond, David Walton, Christopher Weuve (M) Artificial intelligence (AI) is spreading throughout the world affecting many jobs and industries. AI submissions have come to SFF and clogged inboxes. It has "helped" people research. Just where is AI going? Do we need to find John Connor? These questions and more will be discussed.

Saturday 3:30 pm: All Reality is Virtual (Ends at: 4:25 pm) Washington Theater Participants:John Ashmead (M) Virtual reality is (virtually) everywhere today but what do we mean by virtual reality (VR)? where is VR being used?  and where is it likely to go?  For that matter, what we mean by reality has a strong element of the virtual in it:  we do not see individual particles of light, we "see” Grandma, we do not hear sound waves, we hear her “Hello!”.  What is the relationship between the elaborate constructions of our minds and the underlying "real" reality, whatever that is?  We'll look at where virtual reality is today, what the philosophers from Plato to Professor Farnsworth of Futurama fame have to say about it, and what VR means for the future of literature.

Saturday 5:00 pm: What Is This LitRPG Thing? (Ends at: 5:55 pm) Eisenhower Participants:John Ashmead (M), Matt Dinniman, Sarah Mitchell, Joan Wendland From games to fantasy worlds, a discussion of the various subsegments of LitRPG. How does it fit into general SF and Fantasy taxonomy?

Saturday 9:00 pm: Evolution and Climate (Ends at: 9:55 pm) Eisenhower Participants:John Ashmead, David Bartell, Martin Berman-Gorvine, Jack Campbell (M), David Walton Evolution takes time and so does climate change. What traits are likely to be developed to adapt to a warming world with less open land? What can we expect in the short term as well? Which traits are likely to make survivability harder for some species?

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