| Events take place in McConomy Auditorium, University Center except where marked. |
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| 7:30 am | Continental Breakfast |
| 8:45 | Overview/Introductions Jim Morris |
| 9:00 | Ray Kurzweil Promise and Peril: Deeply Intertwined Poles of Twenty First Century Technology |
| 9:35 | Alex Singer The Chip and the Muse: At the Intersection of Science and the Humanities |
| 10:10 | Description of synthetic interview methodology |
| 10:20 | Bill Joy Synthetic Interview: Will the Future Need Us? |
| 11:00 | Hans Moravec Mass Utility Robots this Decade, Finally! |
| 11:35 | David Gelernter A good world in 2050 – will computers help or hinder? |
| 12:10 pm | Q&A for all speakers |
| 12:30 | Lunch, Rangos Ballroom |
| 1:45 | Lee Sproull Inventing New Social Organizations |
| 2:20 | Robert Kraut The Internet and Psychological Well-Being |
| 2:55 | Raj Reddy Implications of Infinite Memory and Infinite Bandwidth |
| 3:30 | Arthur C. Clarke Thoughts from Sri Lanka |
| 3:45 | Herbert Simon Is it our job to Forecast the Future or to Fashion it? |
| 4:30 | Q&A for all speakers |
| 5:00 | Move over to the Atrium in Newell Simon Hall for Ceremonial Opening |