Issue 2.07 - July 1996
"People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. Architecture has nothing to do with it. That's both liberating and alarming."
Features
Richard Olsen's scientists are bringing strange new science to the foreign-exchange markets - and trying to build a better world. By James Flint
The digital revolution is a political revolution. Alvin Toffler, America's pop-futurist laureate, talks to Kevin Kelly about new constitutions, new devolutions, new international relations and how Newt Gingrich got it wrong.
For 50 years, Japan's pachinko was considered petty, sleazy gambling. Now it's going digital. And its promoters dream of taking over the world. By Yukihiro Hatano
What it takes to make architecture real in the next century: Rem Koolhaas on his book S, M, L, XL and his mania for the unknown, the untenable, the unmanageable and the untried. By Katrina Heron
Clive Sinclair addicted a generation to computers - but he doesn't use the things himself. Wayne Myers went to meet the man who warped his formative years.
Avram Miller - jazz pianist and corporate vice president of Intel - talks to Wired about how Hollywood can keep Intel's chip factories humming. By Russ Mitchell
Chadwyck-Healey's CD-ROMs are ushering in a new age of scholarship. By Andrew Brown
The perils of Mark Pauline - Bruce Sterling on the road with SRL's theatre of mechanical cruelty
Departments
An Obsolete startup, French ISPs on strike, Infowar and other news
In Vitro
Market Remakers
Idées Fortes
Technolust
What matters on the Web
Digital Video Discs
Object-Oriented Television