In “How we have been fooled by utopian visions of the future”, Christine Evans-Pughe, writing for The Guadian’s Technology section, concludes of Richard Barbrook’s Imaginary Futures that:

Barbrook has an amusing take on our distorted − if not delusional − relationship with technology, but his underlying point is serious: future visions of technology are used to distract us and also control us, and if we forget these imaginary futures, we are likely to repeart them.  -The Guardian, Thursday, June 7, 2007

For the full transcript of this article view here.

Thanks to all – about 300 of you – who attended the Imaginary Futures book launch celebration on 16th May 2007 at Madame JoJos in London’s SoHo. Photos are now posted on Flickr.com, and will soon be added to the Imaginary Futures Gallery on this website. Please view the photos here.

Writer Sarah Snider has reviewed Richard Barbrook’s newly released book Imaginary Futures for Culture Wars

She comments that:

Imaginary Futures shows how technology has itself been, and is still, mediated by competing versions of the future. The parallax of time allows us to turn correlation into causality, retroactively instilling agents with intentionality, and actions with meaning.

Culture Wars is the first formal review to be published, and more are due soon. To read the full review click here.