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Issue No. 82 January 5, 1999
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Quotes and Provocations
Aggressive Agriculture
Milk That's Good for Tumors
Can Open Standards Suffocate Us? (Stephen L. Talbott)
Issue No. 83 January 19, 1999
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Quotes and Provocations
Trust Me: I'm Vulnerable
How to Beef Up Your Infant's Knowledge Base
Imagining a Better Potato
When Technology is Smoke and Confusion
Letter from Des Moines (Lowell Monke)
Correspondence
Does NETFUTURE Hold to a Masculine Standard?
Response to Rebecca Eisenberg
Announcements and Resources
The Monsanto Files
Issue No. 84 February 9, 1999
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Quotes and Provocations
Want to Globalize? Then Localize!
Please Don't Love Me Only for My Architecture
Freeman Dyson on the Survival of Craftsmanship
Brief Notes on Polarity
There is No Such Thing as Information (Stephen L. Talbott)
The Great Knowledge Implosion (Stephen L. Talbott)
Correspondence
Wholeness and a Society without Gender
Announcements and Resources
Where to Go Next
Issue No. 85 February 25, 1999
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Quotes and Provocations
A Recipe for Calamity
Consumer Manipulation Made Easy
Finding Ourselves in Silence
The Blessings of a Hurricane
I'm Glad the Net `Corrodes' My Culture (Marcelo Rinesi)
Who Are We Without Our Technologies? (Muktha Jost)
Issue No. 86 March 11, 1999
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Quotes and Provocations
When Computers Disappear, Will Salesmen Disappear Too?
Why Johnny is a Cynic
Conference on Abdicated Minds
Cluttering Our Lives for Profit
The Farm in Its Landscape (Craig Holdrege)
Correspondence
NETFUTURE and the Issues Facing Libraries
Firestorm in a Kindergarten
Thanks for Bringing Pleasure to an Old Man
Muktha, Computers Are as Innocent as Your Shoes
There is a Place for Manipulation
When Film Projectors Were Going to Redeem Education
Issue No. 87 March 30, 1999
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Quotes and Provocations
I Think I'll Take Just One More Computer
Virtuality and the Atomization of Experience
Will Media Lab Chefs Some Day Become Intelligent?
When Faith in Computers is Boundless
Open Net, Padlocked Libraries
The High Stakes of Standardized Testing (Edward Miller)
Correspondence
Shovel This, Microsoft
Issue No. 88 April 16, 1999
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Quotes and Provocations
How Compelling is Distance Education?
Couch Potatoes Feeling Oppressed at M.I.T.
The ATM as Commercial Television
Notes on Health and Medicine (Stephen L. Talbott)
Issue No. 89 May 4, 1999
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Quotes and Provocations
Globalism Means Living with Your Neighbor
Tales from the Computerized Classroom
Failure to Connect: Jane Healy on Classroom Computers (Stephen L. Talbott)
I Wonder What My Brain is Thinking? (Stephen L. Talbott)
Issue No. 90 May 14, 1999
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Why I Never Buy Books from Amazon.com (Stephen L. Talbott)
Correspondence
Mistaking the Part for the Whole
NETFUTURE's Hubris in Defining `Human'
Obscure Holism
Leboyer on Birth without Violence
Lessons about Doing Distance Education Well
A Worthwhile Distance Education Course
Who is a Drop-out?
A Failure of the Medium or a Failure of Teachers?
Issue No. 91 June 23, 1999
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Quotes and Provocations
The Negativism of NETFUTURE
Grounds for Optimism
Will the Internet Be Bad for Democracy? (Eli Noam)
Correspondence
Search Globally, Buy Locally
Why I Use Amazon.com
Amazon.com's Excellent Service is Worth Supporting
Issue No. 92 July 21, 1999
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Can Technology Make the Handicapped Whole? (Stephen L. Talbott)
The Living and the Dead (Jacques Lusseyran)
Issue No. 93 August 19, 1999
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Quotes and Provocations
Fear of Healing
Is High School Dispensable?
Bhutan and Fiji: The Elusive Influences of Television
The Columbine Shootings (Stephen L. Talbott)
Announcements and Resources
Waldorf Education Goes High-Profile
Information Appliances May Prove More Frustrating Than You Think
A Down Home Newsletter from Maine
Issue No. 94 September 14, 1999
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Quotes and Provocations
When Everything Is Computed
Schooling the Imagination
Tech Knowledge Revue (Langdon Winner)
Correspondence
Readers Comment on the Jacques Lusseyran Issue
Issue No. 95 September 23, 1999
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Quotes and Provocations
The Distorting Potentials of Technical Capability
Movements, Too, Must Be Allowed to Die
What Makes a Technology Inevitable?
The Fascination with Ubiquitous Control
Correspondence
Toward Appropriate Behavior by Objects
Response to Alan Wexelblat
Missing the `Old' Don Norman
Issue No. 96 October 14, 1999
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Quotes and Provocations
Dangerous Baby Walkers, Dangerous Software?
Your Food is a Little Bit Safer Today
Borgmann on the Wonders of the Information Age
On Constructivism in Education
Correspondence
The Oral Foundations of Learning
When Living Becomes an Inconvenience
On Appropriate Behavior for Machines
The Caller ID Arms Race
If Computers Behaved Like Toilets
Issue No. 97 November 3, 1999
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Technology and the Three-toed Sloth
What Does It Mean to Be a Sloth? (Craig Holdrege)
Issue No. 98 November 23, 1999
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Quotes and Provocations
Life-saving Technologies That Kill
Alien Technologies That Operate on Us
Who Gave Away Control of the World's Germ Plasm?
Correspondence
Re: The Most Slothful of Sloth Moths
Genetic Engineers Following in Auto Industry's Tracks?
Cheap Shots at Ubiquitous Computing
When Technology Is Too Helpful
We'll Get What We Choose (and I'll Choose Convenience)
Constructivism and the Arrogance of Humanism
There Is a Place for Subject Matter
A Healthy and Balanced Constructivism
The Irrelevance of School
Is It the Waldorf Method, or the Teachers?
Issue No. 99 December 9, 1999
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The Alliance for Childhood
Quotes and Provocations
Can We Let Children Be Children?
Technology Literacy
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