Hello. Good to see all of you tonight. Thanks for taking the trouble to show up. Tonight I'm going to do something that I've never done before. I'm going to do something that I've struggled against doing for twenty years.

Tonight, I'm going to prophesy.

These words were spoken by Bruce Sterling on October 14th, 1998, and they ushered in the transient pulse of the Viridian Design Movement. Beginning at that moment and set to expire when the Kyoto Protocol does in 2012, the movement seeks to design things that are ... green.

It's much more than that. Go and find a book called Distraction. You'll be surprised at the parallels between that book and some of the things you find us doing here.