ISBN: 9780802120304 (hc)

Edition: 1st ed.

Description: 245 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

• Where we're at
• Farewell to the drive-in utopia
• Cities of the future : yesterday's tomorrow or tomorrow's yesterday?
• The dangers of techno-narcissism, or: Frankenstein release 2.0, how Ray Kurzweil's singularity aims to replace the old god with a new and improved version
• The futility of party politics in the long emergency
• Going broke the hard way : the end of Wall Street
• The energy specter : oil and gas, alternative energy, and waiting for Santa Claus
• Insults to the planet and the planet's reply
• Social relations and the dilemmas of difference
• Coda : a systematic misunderstanding of reality.

Control Number: 851813

Subjects:

• Technology -- Social aspects -- United States.
• United States -- Economic conditions -- 2009-
• United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.