Issue 2.06 - June 1996
"The boundaries which have set companies apart from one another, and apart from their customers, will dissolve. Intranets will not preserve companies' integrity - they will blow companies apart."
Features
Iain M. Banks has created a Utopia that actually sounds like fun. By Oliver Morton
An excerpt from Iain M. Banks's forthcoming Culture novel. A Wired exclusive.
With bad haircuts, naff suits and a taste for Big Ideas and High Culture the boys from the Po Valley are beating all comers in the CD-ROM game. By Lee Marshall
Mathematician Ian Stewart talks about fluid dynamics in the desert, controlling the space shuttle and why it's good to have a chaotic brain. By James Flint
Lyn Hurd set up Britain's first cybercafe in the depths of rural Wales. Now the Net is helping her to hold her local community together. By Hari Kunzru
Microsoft morphs into a 21st century media giant. By Denis Caruso
According to Albert Bressand and Catherine Distler, it's not information technology anymore, it's relationship technology. By Peter Schwartz
Departments
Grauso Sells Out, Internet Radio and other news
No Network is an Island
In Vitro
Idées Fortes
Technolust
What matters on the Web
Multicasting
The Next Billion Users