It's a rare and beautiful occasion when conference organizers give no direction as to the content of a talk: EIF 2008 was just such an occasion. This is a talk of which I am particularly proud, and not just because my futurist musings popped an entire page in Edge Magazine ("A Scott with a plan"), but because I got to eat breakfast that morning bubblegum-punk-humming to myself, "Fuck it! Here's something I believe in!"