The matches are high-tech, post-Nascar demolition derbies.
The message seemed to go against everything we know about how a high-tech, post-industrial economy operates.
What we'll remember are the company's images of high-tech post-apocalyptica: gravity going wonky, trees spontaneously bursting into flame, a priest looting a flat-screen television, a man being led on a leash by his newly bipedal dog.
But luxury communism perhaps finds a more current cultural analogue in sci-fi visions such as Star Trek, with its replicators and egalitarian politics, or the late Iain Banks' high-tech post-scarcity Culture universe.
This can take a variety of forms, for instance: selling and distributing music over the internet; web design and computerised advertising services tailored to music products; software design focused on multimedia products and virtual instruments; high-tech post-production and mixing services; and virtual centres and communities of music industry actors.
But if you're one of those high-tech, post-IPO types that wants to feel like Phileas Fogg for a minute or two each day, you can shell out $150,000 for the Breva Génie 01, a mechanical watch that measures altitude, temperature, and predicts the weather using tiny moving parts.
Quigley says the hope is to "keep the upload flow pretty simple and streamlined" so sharing high-tech posts doesn't require high-tech skills.
Others have gone high tech, posting websites and blitzing the city's mobile phones with text messages.
The high-tech customs post there, an American-bankrolled gateway to a new border-zone industrial park, was envisioned as a showcase of Israeli-Palestinian economic cooperation.
The Los Angeles Emergency Operations Center, a high-tech command post built to manage during a natural disaster, will be in full operation, the mayor said.
