Issue 1.04 - August 1995
"Not only does the body of an organism march to the orders of its genes, but so do the artifacts the organism builds or uses. (In this sense, the egg uses both a chicken and a nest to make another egg, and so the nest, too, is an evolutionary extension of the egg.) Human evolution is now inextricably bound up with technological evolution. Humankind is co-evolving with its artifacts, and the genes that can't cope with that new reality will not survive into future millennia."
Features
For Richard Dawkins, genes are selfish, the watchmaker is blind, and the mystery of life is no mystery - it's digital. By Michael Schrage
Just van Rossum and Erik van Blokland would be rich and famous if everyone who used their typefaces paid for them. By Erik Spiekermann
May the astral plane be reborn in cyberspace. By Erik Davis
The building blocks of John Frazer's architecture mirror the building blocks of life itself. Hari Kunzru and Jess Search meet the design evolutionaries.
Andrew Joscelyne listens to French cyberculture philosopher Pierre Lévy.
Lee Marshall visits the medieval village of the future.
Departments
Technolust
Electrosphere
By Rudy Rucker
By Wendy Grossman
By Ivor Benjamin
Idées Fortes
By Dave Green
By Scott Rosenberg
Affordable Computing