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In place of the brave new world of design fiction, artists like Olafur Eliasson invite us to enter the instant Utopia of our own imaginations.

Charlie Stross figures we're ready for a pendulum swing back in the direction of Sir Thomas More.

At five dollars for 99 pieces of the Darkest Classical Music ever written, it's easy to get into a symphonically nasty post-holiday funk.

With a fabbed flute, we see emergence at its natal stage; the imperfect copy of the old instrument is a promising harbinger of the novel sounds to come.

A web-based game simply and elegantly tests Julian Assange's theory of the power of networked secrecy.

At the Atlantic, Alexis Madrigal tells how the Christmas tree helped to domesticate the terrifying energies of electricity around the turn of the last century.

James Burke is the Carl Sagan of Serendipity. Now his Connections series, which tells technology's history as a record of sagacious discovery, is available for free viewing. Video after the jump.

The graffiti artist MadC's massive, tour-de-force narrative painting recounts a trip through her own inventive, techno-dystopian mind.

"The man in charge of the machinery of the universe is Chief Engineer Geordi LaForge."

Confounded by fruit and other technologies; video after the jump.