Introduction. African thumb piano -- Rocket Radio -- Since 1948 -- Any ̀mount of world' -- The baddest dude on Earth -- Talk for Book Expo, New York -- Dead man sings -- Up the Line -- Disneyland with the death penalty -- Mr. Buk's window -- Shiny balls of mud: Hikaru Dorodango and Tokyu Hands -- An invitation -- Metrophagy: The art and science of digesting great cities -- Modern boys and mobile girls -- My obsession -- My own private Tokyo -- The road to Oceania -- Skip Spence's jeans -- Terminal City -- Introduction: "The Body" -- The net is a waste of time -- Time machine Cuba -- Will we have computer chips in our heads? -- William Gibson's Filmless Festival -- Johnny: notes on a process -- Googling the cyborg