Index

EDITORIAL
the Utopian imagination revisited   7

SHORT/CUTS
you lost all my money   9
David Mandl advises the dot com cry-baby losers to read the manual

top of the eco-pops   10
William Shutkin and Critical Art Ensemble beg to differ about ecology and capitalism

march for indigenous dignity   13
Austin Class War report back from the Zapatista caravan

just because you're paranoid   15
Mike Holderness on Microwave crowd-control weapons and the truth value of paranoid delusions

who's copying who?   16
Napster isn't only interesting from a copyright-or-left perspective - by Philip Sherburne

free improvisation actuality   17
Ben Watson writes about the musos that commodification forgot

russian roulette. mia-style   19
Jj King found himself in a space ship's Planned Target Zone

all tomorrow's parties   20
Corinna Snyder on the ghost of dot com fever and corporate attempts to reanimate it

cyberhypes   21
The Cybernetic Culture Research Unit examines 'psychological' economic theory, lite

daily operations: the weblog   23
Why weblogging brings out the best in the Net. By Jouke Kleerebezem

ceci n'est pas un magazine   24
Mute on 'prosumers', collaborative production and the future of the magazine - a Mute infomercial

MAINS

THE TOMORROW PEOPLE   26
Has the digital economy's love affair with futurecasting and scenario-planning been consigned to the dumpster of history,
or do the Tomorrow People still have a shelf life? By Hari Kunzru

BORN IN THE USA   36
Bruce Sterling, sci-fi novelist, ecological activist, Texan and wit - in interview with Martin Conrads and Ulrich Gutmair

TWO OR THREE THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HER   46
Benedict Seymour on the modern metropolis' regeneration game

REAR/VIEW   54
reviews of multiple media