CONTACT V · March 4-6, 1988 · Rancho Cordova, CA

Friday

9:00-10:20 OUR ONCE AND FUTURE GUEST OF HONOR

Devayani Smith - Gregory Bateson: A Science of Relationship

10:30-11:50 2020 VISION

Poul Anderson - 2020 Blindness

Reed Riner - Religion 2020 AD

1:00-2:20 EXOANTHROPOLOGY

Suzanne Engler & LuAnn Hudson - Societies in Space: Myth and Reality

Phil DeVita - Alternate Model for Space Habitation: Analogues from Pacific Atoll Communities

2:30-3:50 POPULATION AND THE FUTURE

Bob Tyzzer - How Many Is Enough?

Doug Raybeck - No Room at the Interstice: Life on a Crowded Planet

4:00-5:30 CULTURES OF THE IMAGINATION (report of worlds and aliens)

Evening BATESON PROJECT: 2020 News (report on sessions 1-3)

Saturday

9:00-10:20 CONTACT

Al Harrison - ExoPsychology

Dave Brin - Contact Protocol

10:30-11:50 THE SPACE AGE

Greg Barr - Space and the Single Person

Jonathan Post - Artificial Intelligence for Space

1:00-2:20 TECHNOLOGY AND THE FUTURE

Keith Henson - The Future Isn't What It Used To Be

William Tenn (Phil Klass) - Domestication of the Future: Companions of the Hunt

2:30-3:50 DESIGNING THE FUTURE

Jim Funaro - Achilles Expedition: Creating an Offworld Colony in 3 Days

Dave Brin - Simulations: Honesty by the Numbers

4:00-5:30 CULTURES OF THE IMAGINATION (report on cultures)

Evening BATESON PROJECT: 2020 News (report on sessions 4-6)

Sunday

9:00-10:20 VISIONS OF THE FUTURE

(Luther Gerlock - Managing the Global Commons)

Larry Victor - Exploring and Colonizing Asynchronous Reality

10:30-12:00 BATESON PROJECT: 2020 Vision Summary

1:00-5:00 CULTURES OF THE IMAGINATION: Contact!

BATESON PROJECT TEAM: 2020 VISION - Mischa Adams, Poul & Karen Anderson, Greg Barr, Scott Beach, David Brin, Yvonne Clearwater, Herb Dallas, Phil DeVita, Suzanne Engler, Jan English-Lueck, Jim Funaro, Steve Goldin, Joel Hagen, Al Harrison, Howard Heard, Luanne Hudson, Phil Klass (William Tenn), Doug Raybeck, Reed Riner, Michael Shields, Devayani Smith, Sandy Alluquerre Stone, Chip Street, Bob and Kathy Tyzzers, Phil & Mary Vaughn and Larry Victor.

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