somehow in between all the movies and hbo shows, i managed to finally polish off bruce sterling's book tomorrow now: envisioning the next fifty years, which is chock full of brain-satisfying goodness. it's a little uneven, but there are big sections that are pure genius, and the whole book clips along like an extended ramble on what form the future is taking as we're making it. definitely something to put on the shelf and revisit in the future.