"When Blobjects Rule the Earth"

If you're like me [being aMyers-Briggs N] you may like to indulge in lovely speculations about what may yet come to pass, to play with the ideas of how things may develop .. probably why science fiction appeals; I wonder if they've done a correlative study of N's and science fiction readers?

Anyway for those who indulge in such woolgathering this article is for yea; replete with definitions of 'blobjects', 'gizmos' and 'spimes' -yes it puzzled me too; it appears to be a portmanteu word based on 'speculative' and 'imaginary' or possibly 'space' and 'time' -for why? -Read the blessed article; do I have to do all the work?

I liked too the fact that the darkside of it all is explored: "Things need to change quickly and radically, because the industrial system we have today cannot persist. It cannot find enough energy and raw materials. Instead of moving forward, our civilization is surrounding the oil wells with fixed bayonets and settling into a smog-shrouded Dark Age.
The shape of things today is condemning our world to steadily increasing poverty, degradation, and turmoil. Four planets couldn't supply the material and energy to let the world live the so-called advanced world lives now.
We're pretty advanced, but we're nowhere near advanced enough."
BoingBoing: Bruce Sterling SIGGRAPH 2004 speech "When Blobjects Rule the Earth"