According to Bruce Sterling, in another five or ten or howevermany years, we'll all have tossed aside our Finnish camera-phones and iPods to wrangle Spimes. And he just may be right.

I had completely forgotten about his Viridian design movement until today. Its goal is to design and implement a world where we can live technologically without choking to death on our own filthy waste, and where we can do this in a sexy way consumers will gobble down like dick. It's worth checking out.