Issue 2.04 - April 1996
"I'm the product of a million novels. Text made me, but I really don't think today's four- and five- year olds will say that. If they do read, then text will be one information medium among many. They were reared in print but are required to function electronically."
Features
Hal Bertram and Dave Housman at London's Creative Shop know how to bring puppets to life - an ability that couuld turn computer animation into computer performance. By Matt Bacon
Today's boys and girls are already living in the future. Dale Spender tells Hari Kunzru
When single cells evolved into complex organisms, life suddenly found itself in a vast new landscape of possibilities. Computers developing into networks stand poised on the edge of a new world just as strange and vast. By Oliver Morton
Botmadness reigns and botwars rage, as ever more complex chunks of code roam the Net. Bot solutions breed bot problems breed bot solutions, as roving programs evolve ever faster towards a-life. By Andrew Leonard
Organisational psychologist Karl Weick reveals what high-tech entrepeneurs can learn from reading cracked caribou bones and why Bill Gates might consider leaving Microsoft. By John Geirland
The Jewish religion is a 2,000-year-old hypertext project. Torah Scholar Software is putting it online and creating software that can analyse the mysteries of the cabbala. By Wayne Myers
Eva Pascoe started Cyberia, London's first cybercafe. Now she's going global. By Susie Forbes
Departments
Net Nazis and other news
Break Up BT!
Idées Fortes
Technolust
Working the Web
Low Voltage = High Power
Affective Computing