3
Infinite Music — On the ownership of melodies not yet composed
17
The Talking Rectangle — A domestic communication apparatus
29
Message from the President — Compulsory personal broadcasting
44
The Secret Policeman’s Map of Me — A social cartography
61
A New You — Consultation with unrealised selves
78
The Department of Forgotten Machines
103
The Mechanical Dean
121
A Short History of Tomorrow, Revised
149
Instructions for the Automatic Critic
188
Index of Prohibited Indexes
214
Errata to the Future