Issue 2.12 - December 1996
"Technology is not neutral. We're inside of what we make and it's inside us. We're living in a world of connections - and it matters which ones get made and unmade."
Features
A new breed of entrepreneurs is defining the way digital business is done in Britain. By Steve Shipside
Designer Tibor Kalman likes computers. They give individuals the power to fuck things up. By Brad Wieners
Who gets to watch? Who gets to watch the watchers? Cameras are getting smaller. And smaller, and smaller. Soon they will be everywhere: street corners, lamp posts and street signs. By David Brin
Jörg Zintzmeyer's Swiss banknotes map a new world of microtext, watermarks and optically variable ink. By Tom Claiburn
Italian novelist and semiotician Umberto Eco expounds upon the Net, writing the osteria, libraries, Finnegan's Wake, Marshall McLuhan and, well, God. By Lee Marshall
At once a techno-pagan festival, an art event, a rave and the ultimate alternative holiday, Burning Man in Nevada is the place for wired Americans to spend the last weekend of summer. By Marco Crisari
FedEx is piloting the next phase of the digital revolution. It's a very big idea. It's called logistics. By Todd Lapin
He reckons the average human's causal reasoning equals that of a chimpanzee. He wants us to shove computer implants in our brains to improve them. Paul Churchland explains himself to Max More.
Technology is getting under our skin. Donna Haraway has some disconcerting news for anyone who still thinks our bodies are natural. By Hari Kunzru
Departments
Reader feedback
Med-TV's Hikmet Tabak broadcasts to the Kurds.
Lindis Percy occupies US bases and other news
In Vitro
Abacus
Idées Fortes
Technolust
What matters on the Web
Love it or loathe it
Meetings worth making
Algoric Systems
The revolution as it happens
Laptop Envy