NYC 2019

Looking to the Future

Evening

• Always Look on the Bright Side by Monty Python ◦ A silly song about making the best of terrible things
• Still Alive by Jonathan Coulton ◦ A smug, sociopathic celebration of survival and science
• We Are Gathered 2019 by Daniel Speyer
• When I Die by Glen Raphael ◦ A light-hearted song about death
• X Days of X Risk by Raymond Arnold ◦ Six (or more) ways the world could end
• Prediction: Artificial Intelligence

Dusk

• The Contract Drafting Em by Zack Davis ◦ The special horror when your employer has root on your brain

Twilight

• Disneyland with No Children by Nick Bostrom, Scott Alexander and Daniel Speyer
• Bitter Wind Blown by Raymond Arnold ◦ A lullaby for a child that is shivering in the cold
• Origin of Stories, Twilight Edition by Raymond Arnold and Daniel Speyer
• Chasing Patterns by Raymond Arnold ◦ Our struggle for understanding
• Prediction: Phenotypes
• Time Wrote the Rocks by Cat Faber ◦ Truth is found in the world

Night

• Do You Realize by The Flaming Lips ◦ A surreal song of love and death
• No Royal Road to Knowledge; No Mercy for Ignorance by Daniel Speyer
• The Voicing of Fear by Daniel Speyer ◦ How much we have to lose and how little chance we have to keep it
• Prediction: WWII
• Momma Look Sharp ◦ by Sherman Edwards (from 1776) ◦ A young soldier faces death
• Bitter Wind March by Raymond Arnold ◦ A return to Bitter Wind Blown, but with determination to do something about it
• We Are Here by Daniel Speyer
• Call and Response: Defiance by Jai Dhyani (Abridged by Daniel Speyer)

Dawn

• Brighter Than Today by Raymond Arnold ◦ Our central anthem of hope, starting from the invention of fire
• Endless Lights by Raymond Arnold ◦ A song of hope, generations, stories and infinite possibilities

Morning

• Here Comes the Sun by The Beatles ◦ A light-hearted celebration of the sun
• Here and Now by Raymond Arnold ◦ A celebration of now
• Prediction: Ozone
• I Have Seen the Tops of Clouds by Daniel Speyer ◦ The miracles of today taken in context
• Don't Shoot the Messenger by Sarah Constantin, adapted for speech by Daniel Speyer

Days to Come

• Letter from Utopia by Nick Bostrom, excerpted by Daniel Speyer
• Let There Be Love ◦ by Daniel Speyer ◦ A future worth fighting for
• Prediction: Invent It
• Uplift by Andrew Eigel ◦ Human progress, from stone tools to space colonies
• Five Thousand Years by Raymond Arnold ◦ Looking to the far future
• The Road to Wisdom by Piet Hein