Issue 1.07 - November 1995
"Two styles of people: guys and gals. Females, what? They caretake. They nurture. Men, what? They squirt and move on. So business start-ups - same thing. The entrepeneurs who run businesses? They're like women. Caretakers. Venture capitalists, though? Gigolos. Roosters. Seed capital. Get it?"
Features
Beyond the technology it has imagined, the thinkers it has encouraged, and the students it has attracted and seeded, the greatest achievement of the MIT Media Laboratory may be the invention of - itself. By Fred Hapgood
Scuba has come full circle - from the first exporers in the 1950s to today's "technical divers" who strap on underwater computers and dive to depths so great the pressure could crush an automobile faster than a five-car pileup. By Jerry Shine
And other insights from market research guru Nick Donatiello. By Alan Deutschman
The first global Internet service provider is being created in Sardinia (perché no?) by media entrepreneur Nichi Grauso, who wants to build his Video On Line into a worldwide media empire by thinking globla and acting local. By Lee Marshall
What would it be like if all government regulations on telecommunications just went away... By Bob Johnstone
Harry Allen on how black people are giving the digital revolution the funk it so badly needs. By Matt Haber
An inside look at Marquee Venture Partners, one of the most famous venture capital firms of Silicon Valley's Sand Hill Road. By Po Bronson
Departments
Hive computing
Technolust
Electrosphere
By Kevin Kelly
By Rogier van Bakel
By Phil Patton
Idées Fortes
By Mark Poster
By Laura Miller
Being Decimal