The Tomorrow Project Anthology: Conversations about the Future

This book was a fun little treat. The Doctorow novella (Knights of the Rainbow Table) was my favorite work of his yet, and it poses some very deep questions about what we might want to allow on networks when anybody can be Wikileak’d. The short stories created using the Science Fiction Prototyping methodology are a little more varied in quality, but all of them raise some really provocative questions. And the interview with will.i.am that closes out the book is simply a pleasure. I guess I should’ve known that he was a futurist after seeing the Black Eye Peas superbowl show, but the guy really cares about what tomorrow is going to be like, especially for the ordinary Americans in the ghettos and exurbs who are already falling behind.

To quote will.i.am. “I’m a wannabe geek in the geek. I can hear OG geeks saying, “He ain’t real. Get him up out of here.” Those gangsta geeks can be hardcore. Those dudes are like gangsta geeks, those guys are worse than Crips and Bloods.

Beautiful.