Issue 2.03 - March 1996
"While in theory an unbreakable cipher is conceivable, you don't want to bet your life on its actual implementation. That's especially true when there exists a throbbing collaborative network of potential crackers - and, maybe, thieves & saboteurs."
Features
Richard Branson didn't know much about music, so he started a record label; he didn't know much about air travel, so he started an airline; he doesn't know much about the Net, so he's starting a network. What does Branson know that we don't know? By Tim Jackson
As the US war machine develops a digital air force of "unmanned aerial vehicles," it's only a matter of time before fighter planes without fighter jocks joust in some robot dogfight in the sky. By Phil Patton
A fine grasp of detail and a libertarian millenialism have made George Gilder America's most influential technology writer. But does he really believe what he says? By Po Bronson
Interactive media was certainly no dead end for Time's managing editor Walter Isaacson. By Evan Schwartz
If you're putting your faith in cryptography to protect your privacy, we have some garage-band hackers - who have been famously cracking, not creating crypto - that we'd like you to meet. By Steven Levy
A decade later, the contaminated zone surrounding Chernobyl has become a haven for those whose future has been taken away - by the disaster or by war, age, illness, or their own demons. By Masha Gessen
Departments
Bulletins from the front line of the digital revolution
3-D viewing goes glassless
Technolust
Electrosphere
By John Heilemann
By Simson Garfinkel
Idées Fortes
By John Browning
By Arun Mehta
Pluralistic, Not Imperialistic