"I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.”
- J. G. Ballard

As our megalopolis expands, fragments, and warps, we look towards governments, industry visionaries, world leaders, and pop stars to guide the way. The party rhetoric echoes a future vision filled with beautiful, delicious urban technologies that will sooth the souls of our communities, generate playful neo-geo-landscapes, and celebrate our omni-connected harmony? But what do we truly aspire, desire, and admire? Emerge from the labs, galleries, homes, offices, and suburbs. Break free and engage in the first open forum Interactive City Summit.

This summit is held in conjunction with the ISEA2006 Symposium and and its Interactive City theme with the results of the summit being featured at the ISEA Symposium on 11 August. The event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.