Issue 2.11 - November 1996
"If you want the Internet to be everywhere, it has to be visible nowhere - unseen, unnoticed, undiscussed."
Features
In which Neil Gaiman finds an unexpected fortune in comic books; a strange Tube station is explored; collaborations are entered into; the quest for new media is embarked on; and accountancy is left unexamined. By Oliver Morton
Barbie is hitting cyberspace, stereotypes and all. Doug Glen, president of Mattel Media, is taking her there. By Michael Meloan
The next big thing to hit the Net will be millions of tiny computers wired together and embedded into everything we use. This is no future vision - the products are hitting the market now. By David Kline
Dancer and software designer Thecla Schiphorst has transformed choreography - and interface design. By Evantheia Schibsted
Young punks and old media hacks. They're all on the Web chasing the same dream: money, power, ego-fulfillment - and the quick sell out. This is the story of Suck, by Josh Quittner, the hopelessly conflicted editor of Time's Netly News.
Jorge Orta has fun projecting 10,000m2 symbols onto the world's favourite beauty spots. By James Flint
David Thomson's life in the phone business may have yielded up the hottest new tools science has to offer. By Charles Seife
Nicholas Grimshaw thinks that buildings should be rigorously engineered machines that respond to the people who inhabit them. The celebrated British architect has redeemed the postwar aesthetic of many European cities with his work. By Jackie Bennion
Bill Gate's Corbis is more than the ulitmate digital stock image house. It may be the first online, for-profit library. By Richard Rapaport
Departments
Germany's Net Blitzkrieg, Beer Me Up, Scotty and other news
In Vitro
Abacus
Idées Fortes
Technolust
What matters on the Web
Love it or loathe it
Meetings worth making
Jacking In
Reader feedback
Snapshots from the digital revolution
Being local