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