Preface | p. ix |
what is a Person? | p. 1 |
Missing Persons | p. 3 |
An Apocalypse of Self-Abdication | p. 24 |
The Noosphere Is Just Another Name for Everyone's Inner Troll | p. 45 |
What will Money Be? | p. 73 |
Digital Peasant Chic | p. 77 |
The City Is Built to Music | p. 87 |
The Lords of the Clouds Renounce Free Will in Order to Become Infinitely Lucky | p. 94 |
The Prospects for Humanistic Cloud Economics | p. 100 |
Three Possible Future Directions | p. 108 |
The Unbearable Thinness of Flatness | p. 117 |
Retropolis | p. 121 |
Digital Creativity Eludes Flat Places | p. 133 |
All Hail the Membrane | p. 138 |
Making the best of bits | p. 149 |
I Am a Contrarian Loop | p. 153 |
One Story of How Semantics Might Have Evolved | p. 158 |
Future Humors | p. 175 |
Home at Last (My Love Affair with Bachelardian Neoteny) | p. 179 |
Acknowledgements | p. 195 |
Index | p. 197 |
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