** Tentative Topic list — subject to change without notice **

MIS001  McDo-It-Yourself

Teams formed from the audience take boxes of stuff and make things from them, competing against each other. Need one or two participants to oversee the event.

MIS002  Alienated Extraterrestrials

Hold a protest by aliens on how they are stereotyped in science fiction.  Costumed aliens could be given placards or join in making placards to march around with.

MIS003  Literary Beer Or Kaffee Klatch

Here is an opportunity to speak with a dozen or so attendees in an private setting so they can get to know you.

MIS004  Future Of The Oldest Profession

Remember the holo-brothel from Babylon Five?  The many different ways Data was programmed to perform on Next Generation?  The trade in memories from Strange Days?  How is advanced technology going to affect the future of the sex trade?

MIS005 Podcasting 101

What is podcasting? How does it work? What do you need to do it?

MIS006 Podcasting 202

So you have some experience with this, but need to do better. What are you doing wrong or how can you improve your podcasting technique?

MIS007  Autograph Session

Here is an opportunity to sign items that fans and pros bring such as copies of your novel.

MIS008 Space Law

This idea has been used three times and was thought a joke panel at the start, each time.  Space Law is a serious subject because it has both an intra- and inter-species possibility.  It can be discussed as an academic (there are quite a few University Law Schools that teach it as a discipline) or as a practical function that will be necessary now and in the future. The Space Station, today, is acting under Japanese Law, not English Common Law, Napoleonic Law, Judaic Law or Shirria Law.  This was done by usage, for the Japanese own more of the station than any other participating
nation.  As for the future, how do we meld Terrestrial Law with other life forms’ jurisprudence when we meet them in our travels? Figure combining the Bill of Rights with the Rules of Acquisition.

MIS009 Reading

MIS010 SF Knitting Circle

MIS011 New Media

Is It Old Already? Is it a good idea to give your book away via blog or e-book or podcast, now that the market is considered by some to be saturated?

MIS012 I Hate My Voice!

The reasons you won’t go into podcasting, why they’re simply excuses, and how to get past them.

MIS013 SF and the Academy

Are we acceptable now? Do we want to be?

MIS014 Liars’ Panel

MIS015 Stand-up Comedy Show

MIS016 Privacy Versus Omniscience

When it becomes possible to know everything about everyone, will it be possible not to know? Between Moore’s Law and Metcalfe’s Law, when will Facebook know what you are thinking before you do? What can technology find out about you, today or in the near future, and is there anything you can do to change that?