Issue 1.08 - December 1995
"The Net, more than anything else, is a platform for entrepreneurial activities - a free-market economy in its truest sense. It's a level playing field where people can do anything they want."
Features
More and more movies are being made on location - in cyberspace, with synthespians like T-rex, Casper, and now the entire cast of Toy Story. Proving that the only major new talent in Tinseltown this year is technology. By Paula Parisi
How John Lasseter came to make the first 100 per cent computer-generated theatrical motion picture. By Burr Snider
Stopping street crime in the global village. By Neal Stephenson
America's futurist politicians, Newt Gingrich and Al Gore, are engaged in an epic struggle: the last time a battle of this magnitude occurred, the New Deal laid the foundation of the modern, industrial, bureaucratic state. By John Heilemann
HotWired's Chip Bayers talks with Netscape's wunderkind.
Sun's Java is the hottest thing on the Web since Netscape. Maybe hotter. But for all the buzz, Java nearly became a business-school case study in how a good product fails. The inside story of bringing Java to market. By David Bank
Civil war in Mexico, the Frankmark in Europe, white supremacists in the northwestern US, nuclear bombs in the Tergiz oil fields of Central Asia sending oil prices over $100 barrel - US President Christy Whitman has her hands full in the year 2013. By Peter Schwartz
Photographer Pedro Meyer produces CD-ROMs that are works of art, but he says multimedia is being made shallow and irrelevant by huge, Hollywood-style projects. His answer is simplicity itself. By Scott Rosenberg
Departments
Speeding up the Web
Technolust
Electrosphere
By Andrew Meier
By Tim Barkow
By Simon Caulkin
Idées Fortes
By John Browning
Wearable Computing