This past spring, I had the distinct pleasure of being the Guest of Honor for the 34th Annual Jack Williamson Lectureship at Eastern New Mexico University. The theme of this year’s Lectureship was Science Fantasy: Into the Next Decade. I did my best to deliver some thoughtful remarks on that theme. Nobody threw anything at me, which I take as a sign that my talk went better than I’d expected.
Anyway, several people have asked me to post my GoH talk. It took me 4 months to do this, but the talk is finally up on the words page.
Mostly it’s me taking antivaccination nutjobs to task, and explaining why I find Singularity prophets tiresome. (I’m not the only one who sees a lot of handwaving in the Singularity propaganda.)