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Chapter 2: The American Century
Here to Serve You: Robbie the Robot and Altaira from the 1956 movie Forbidden Planet.
Artwork by Alex Veness for forthcoming publication: Imaginary Futures, by Richard Barbrook (Pluto Press, 2007). Airbrush and watercolour on paper, 221mm X 138mm.
Cooperative creativity and participatory democracy should be extended from the virtual world into all areas of life. This time, the new stage of growth must be a new civilisation.