Issue 2.10 - October 1996
"In the past, television threw out information to viewers when it wanted to; in the future it must reel viewers into discussions they can join when they want. Welcome to the world of broadcatching."
Features
The future is not something we travel to; it's something we build. Any agenda for the future must understand and incorporate the new reality brought about by digital technologies - communications and computing. Here's ours.
A limestone cave in France is providing a venue for a 4,000 square-metre multimedia show that includes the paintings of the Sistine Chapel. By Steve Shipside
Live sex on the Internet. It's a moralist's nightmare - and a sensible Dutch business eager to convince Wayne Myers that it is absolutely not sleazy.
Labour's spokesman on communications and the information superhighway talks to John Browning about his views on technology, regulation and censorship.
The British government is privatising its data systems on the quiet, and US giant EDS is getting the billion-pound contracts. Simon Davies confronts the company that wants to administer everything from your taxes to your ID card.
Artist Daniel Lee changes humans into beasts. By Mandy Erickson
The most vicious battle on the Net today is a secret war between techies. At stake is nothing less than the future of cyberspace. By Steve G. Steinberg
The Parliamentary Under Secretary for Trade and Technology tells Hari Kunzru that censorship may be forced on politicians if Internet service providers fail to censor themselves.
In his new novel, chief cyberpunk William Gibson has created a subtler, richer vision of the digital life than ever before. In three exclusive extracts, we enter the virtual world of a teenage fan.
The Liberal Democrat leader waxes lyrical to James Flint about cyberaffairs and the Net as a political medium.
Departments
Scandals in cyberspace, Bosnia back on-line and other news
In Vitro
Abacus
Idées Fortes
Technolust
What matters on the Web
Love it or loathe it
Meetings worth making
Machine Translation
Reader feedback
Snapshots from the digital revolution
Electronic Word of Mouth