This time last year, we were talking about going to California, to promote How To Future.

We were supposed to hit LA and SF. We were supposed to eat a daily avocado and drink mezcal and smell star jasmine and orange blossoms. I planned to re-visit the Mystic Museum and Dark Delicacies and Gepetto’s. I planned to return to my spawning grounds. Now my spawning grounds are on fire, and so is everything else.

But, the show must go on. And so, I invite you to the following events, all of which are taking place online so that you can maintain optimal physical distancing measures. Please stay home!

• 18 September, 6pm ET, FutureCon
• 23 September, 12pm ET, The Big Rethink
• 25 September, 10am ET, ATÖLYE Akademi FutureTense
• 30 September, 12pm ET, IFTF Foresight Talks, with Scott Smith
• 9 October, 8:45am ET, Collider: Technology and Tours
• 16 October, 12pm ET, Appel Salon, Toronto Public Library, interviewing Natalie Zina Walschots about her debut novel Hench, which you all should read
• 23-25 October, check listings, OutpostCon
• 29 October, TBA virtual panel from Boomerang Create
• 2 November, TBA virtual panel at Ontario Tech University
• 26 November, Calgary WordFest

If you’re curious, you can also read this Institute for the Future report I provided some creative assistance with: Families in Flux: Imagining the Next Generation of the American Family. And if you’re really, really curious, you can now watch The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel, a documentary film that I consulted on years ago when it was in its inital planning phases.

In the meantime, in the immortal words of Michael Mann: Stay alive. No matter what occurs.