Issue 1.03 - July 1995
The task of thinking is based upon selection and weeding out; remembering everything is weirdly similar to forgetting everything. Most things that people do shouldn't be remembered. Maybe forgetting is good.
-Gary Wolf
Features
Author William Gibson wrote the unforgettable short story Johnny Mnemonic. Robert Longo dreamed of filming it. But they couldn't raise the $1.5-million they needed. So they turned it into a $30-million film. By Rogier van Bakel
William Gibson takes us to the place Johnny Mnemonic really came from.
In seven years, Acclaim's sales have gone from zero to $481 million. So why has it lost the licence to produce the next instalment of its most successful franchise, Mortal Combat? Charles Platt investigates whether Acclaim will make it to the next level
Sci-fi master/maths nerd Vernor Vinge believes that machiens are about to rule the human race as humans have ruled the animal kingdom. By Kevin Kelly
European teenage programmers don't write games any more - they write demos. Demos are more than just software, they're the rock-and-roll of code. By Dave Green
Departments
Techno-lust
Electrosphere
By Simon Davies
By Matthew Fuller
By Robin Hunt
By Tom Andrews
Idées Fortes
By Steve G Steinberg
By Mark Fisher
By Bill Thompson
A Better Class of Communication