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TOPICS:
About NetFuture
Agriculture
Alliance for Childhood
Alternative culture
Animal welfare
Art and graphics
Artificial intelligence
Artificial life
Automobile
Brain and mind
Business and capitalism
Censorship
Centralization and authority
Community--virtual and otherwise
Computer applications
Computer as agent of the past
Computers vs. people
Culture of the Net
Digital age nonsense
Disabilities and computers
Distance education
Education and computers
Electronic games
Electronic mysticism
Email
Environmental issues
Evolution
Evolution of consciousness
Fundamental deceit of technology
Genetics and genetic engineering
Global village
Health and medicine
History of computing
Holistic science
Human freedom
Human-computer interface
Information
Information reliability
Intelligent agents
Language
Living life faster
Mechanistic and reductionist science
Media issues
Miscellaneous
Nanotechnology
Orality and literacy
Personal relationships
Physiology and electronic media
Polarity
Politics and social action
Privacy and security
Productivity and computers
Psychology, identity, and the Net
Quantitative and statistical side of computer
Quantity and statistics
Scattered mind
Sex
Standards and open systems
Technological efficiency
Technological inevitability
Technological neutrality
Technological optimism
Ubiquitous computing
Virtual Community
Virtual reality
Year 2000 problem
About NetFuture
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About This Newsletter
Issue: NF #186, February 28, 2013
Agriculture
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Science's Forbidden Question
Author: Craig Holdrege and Steve Talbott
Issue: NF #166, January 16, 2007
Raising Hogs Unimaginatively
Issue: NF #147, July 15, 2003
Of Factory Farms and the Master Race
Issue: NF #145, May 20, 2003
Is There a Gene for Famine Relief?
Issue: NF #145, May 20, 2003
Cheap Food at Any Cost
Issue: NF #143, April 1, 2003
Should Genetically Modified Foods Be Labeled?
Author: Craig Holdrege
Issue: NF #135, August 29, 2002
Barry Commoner on the De-throning of DNA
Issue: NF #128, February 12, 2002
Eating Locally: Recipe for a Cultural Revolution
In article: "Books Received"
Issue: NF #128, February 12, 2002
An Entomologist's Killing Fields
Issue: NF #124, October 30, 2001
Sowing Technology
Author: Craig Holdrege and Steve Talbott
Issue: NF #123, October 9, 2001
Brief Notes from All Over
Issue: NF #119, March 27, 2001
Growing Potatoes in the Ivory Tower
Issue: NF #116, January 11, 2001
Factory-farmed Pigs: Further Thoughts
Author: Douglas Sloan
Issue: NF #116, January 11, 2001
Technology, Animals, and People
Issue: NF #114, November 30, 2000
The Pigs of Iowa
Author: Lowell Monke
Issue: NF #114, November 30, 2000
Asian Rice: A `Stunning' Result
Issue: NF #113, October 31, 2000
Golden Genes and World Hunger: Let Them Eat Transgenic Rice?
Issue: NF #108, July 6, 2000
Your Food is a Little Bit Safer Today
Issue: NF #96, October 14, 1999
The Farm in Its Landscape
Author: Craig Holdrege
Issue: NF #86, March 11, 1999
Imagining a Better Potato
Issue: NF #83, January 19, 1999
When Technology is Smoke and Confusion
Issue: NF #83, January 19, 1999
Aggressive Agriculture
Issue: NF #82, January 5, 1999
The Tyranny of the Gene
Author: Craig Holdrege
Issue: NF #80, November 24, 1998
Finding Wholeness in a Pile of Manure
Issue: NF #79, October 27, 1998
Is Genetic Engineering `Natural'?
Issue: NF #75, July 30, 1998
Garbling the Seeds of the Future
Issue: NF #74, July 9, 1998
Improving Productivity--with Horses
Issue: NF #69, April 14, 1998
Good-bye Organic Food?
Issue: NF #68, March 31, 1998
Pharming the Cow
Author: Craig Holdrege
Issue: NF #43, March 20, 1997
Privacy in an age of data (part 3)
Issue: NF #30, October 24, 1996
Death of a gyppo
Author: Robert Leo Heilman
Issue: NF #24, July 23, 1996
Alliance for Childhood
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Fool's Gold: A Critical Look at Computers in Childhood
Author: Report of the Alliance for Childhood
Issue: NF #111, September 12, 2000
Children and Computers: A Call for Action
Author: Position Statement--Alliance for Childhood
Issue: NF #111, September 12, 2000
Alliance for Childhood--International Conference
In article: "Announcements and Resources"
Issue: NF #111, September 12, 2000
Education in Search of Spirit
In article: "Announcements and Resources"
Issue: NF #101, January 27, 2000
Can We Let Children Be Children?
Issue: NF #99, December 9, 1999
Technology Literacy
Issue: NF #99, December 9, 1999
Alternative culture
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Of Hippies, High Tech, and Cougers
In article: "Is *Wired* a New Age Journal?"
Issue: NF #34, November 25, 1996
Animal welfare
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Science's Forbidden Question
Author: Craig Holdrege and Steve Talbott
Issue: NF #166, January 16, 2007
More on the Columbia Monkeys
Issue: NF #156, April 20, 2004
In the Service of Science
Issue: NF #152, December 9, 2003
Raising Hogs Unimaginatively
Issue: NF #147, July 15, 2003
Of Factory Farms and the Master Race
Issue: NF #145, May 20, 2003
An Entomologist's Killing Fields
Issue: NF #124, October 30, 2001
Factory-farmed Pigs: Further Thoughts
Author: Douglas Sloan
Issue: NF #116, January 11, 2001
The Pigs of Iowa
Author: Lowell Monke
Issue: NF #114, November 30, 2000
Pharming the Cow
Author: Craig Holdrege
Issue: NF #43, March 20, 1997
Art and graphics
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Where Does the User End and PowerPoint Begin?
Issue: NF #153, January 6, 2004
The Reality of Appearances
Issue: NF #119, March 27, 2001
Image Ascendent, or Descendent?
Issue: NF #109, August 3, 2000
Freeman Dyson on the Survival of Craftsmanship
Issue: NF #84, February 9, 1999
Can Photography Blind Us?
Issue: NF #73, June 18, 1998
Bruce Willis, Information Warrior
Issue: NF #58, October 22, 1997
We Are Not Becoming a More Image-based Society
Issue: NF #52, July 2, 1997
How Much Enduring Art Is There in Computer Graphics?
Issue: NF #44, April 2, 1997
Artificial intelligence
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Robots: Getting Down to Essences
Issue: NF #161, March 9, 2005
Logic, DNA, and Poetry
Issue: NF #160, January 25, 2005
Invisible Tools, Emotionally Supportive Pals, Or...?
Issue: NF #159, December 7, 2004
From HAL to Kismet: Your Evolution Dollars at Work
Issue: NF #149, August 28, 2003
When the Mind Dogmatizes about Itself
Issue: NF #148, August 5, 2003
Intelligence and Its Artifacts
Issue: NF #148, August 5, 2003
Flesh and Machines: The Mere Assertions of Rodney Brooks
Issue: NF #146, June 24, 2003
Conversing with Ella
Issue: NF #140, December 26, 2002
Disconnect?
Author: Kevin Kelly and Steve Talbott
Issue: NF #139, December 3, 2002
Ellen Ullman on Artificial Unintelligibility
Issue: NF #138, November 7, 2002
What Are the Right Questions?
Author: Kevin Kelly and Steve Talbott
Issue: NF #136, September 26, 2002
Are Machines Living Things?
Author: Kevin Kelly and Steve Talbott
Issue: NF #133, June 25, 2002
On Giving Rats a Virtual Life
Issue: NF #132, May 21, 2002
Is AI Unfairly Maligned?
Issue: NF #131, April 30, 2002
Wrangling over Odysseus: An Exchange with Kevin Kelly
Issue: NF #126, December 18, 2001
Conference on Abdicated Minds
Issue: NF #86, March 11, 1999
Neural Nets, Stethoscopes, and Patients
Issue: NF #57, October 7, 1997
The Executioner's Motto
Issue: NF #55, September 9, 1997
Chess and Symbolism
Issue: NF #48, May 14, 1997
The Ultimate Enclosure
In article: "Paul Edwards on the Meaning of the Computer"
Issue: NF #41, February 20, 1997
Linking minds and machines
Issue: NF #16, April 22, 1996
Artificial life
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How to Manufacture the Notion of Synthetic Life
Issue: NF #180, March 25, 2010
Ghosts in the Evolutionary Machinery
Issue: NF #170, July 19, 2007
Automobile
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Banning Teenagers to Furtive Little Holes
Issue: NF #105, April 18, 2000
Automobiles: On the Road to Nowhere
Issue: NF #105, April 18, 2000
A Paradoxical Reversal
In article: "The Trouble with Ubiquitous Technology Pushers (Part 2)"
Issue: NF #101, January 27, 2000
Are Unintended Consequences Really Unintended?
Issue: NF #71, May 14, 1998
The Net and Perdition
Issue: NF #36, December 19, 1996
Brain and mind
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Do Plants Think?
Issue: NF #154, February 12, 2004
When the Mind Dogmatizes about Itself
Issue: NF #148, August 5, 2003
Me and My Double Helixes
Issue: NF #144, April 29, 2003
Ellen Ullman on Artificial Unintelligibility
Issue: NF #138, November 7, 2002
Mindlessness and the Brain
Issue: NF #138, November 7, 2002
I Wonder What My Brain is Thinking?
Issue: NF #89, May 4, 1999
Business and capitalism
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On the Global Economic Crisis
In article: "Editor's Note"
Issue: NF #174, December 22, 2008
A Taste for Number Magic
Author: Steve Talbott (stevet@oreilly.com)
Issue: NF #174, December 22, 2008
Economic Bubbles -- and an Overlooked Distinction
Issue: NF #172, April 22, 2008
The Barren Global Vision of Thomas Friedman
Issue: NF #163, May 13, 2005
Who Needs Media Regulation?
Issue: NF #149, August 28, 2003
Commerce as Storytelling
Issue: NF #149, August 28, 2003
Are Corporations to Blame?
Issue: NF #143, April 1, 2003
Cheap Food at Any Cost
Issue: NF #143, April 1, 2003
Three Economic Absurdities
Issue: NF #143, April 1, 2003
Branding the Branders: Turnabout Is Fair Play
Issue: NF #120, April 24, 2001
Beyond Elite Globalization
Issue: NF #120, April 24, 2001
Confronting the Culture of Disrespect
Author: Langdon Winner
Issue: NF #115, December 21, 2000
The Nasdaq as Santa Claus?
Issue: NF #114, November 30, 2000
Free Trade and Ethics
Author: John Pierce
Issue: NF #107, June 1, 2000
Laughing Our Way to the Global Village
Issue: NF #106, May 9, 2000
Greed Is Greed Is Greed...Is Good?
Issue: NF #106, May 9, 2000
The World Trade Organization: Economics as Technology
Issue: NF #106, May 9, 2000
Who Owns Microsoft's Profits?
Issue: NF #106, May 9, 2000
Search Globally, Buy Locally
Author: Phil Walsh
Issue: NF #91, June 23, 1999
Why I Use Amazon.com
Author: Bryce Muir
Issue: NF #91, June 23, 1999
Amazon.com's Excellent Service is Worth Supporting
Author: Kirk McElhearn
Issue: NF #91, June 23, 1999
Why I Never Buy Books from Amazon.com
Issue: NF #90, May 14, 1999
Cluttering Our Lives for Profit
Issue: NF #86, March 11, 1999
Consumer Manipulation Made Easy
Issue: NF #85, February 25, 1999
Does the Computer Eliminate Boring Work?
Issue: NF #77, October 6, 1998
Beyond the Dreams of Avarice (Part 3)
Issue: NF #68, March 31, 1998
Racing Toward a Brick Wall in Order to Stay Ahead
Issue: NF #63, January 6, 1998
Saying Nothing As Fast As Possible
Issue: NF #63, January 6, 1998
The Global Economic Crunch: Is More Efficiency What We Need?
Issue: NF #62, December 16 1997
The Threat of Computer Illiteracy among Babies
Issue: NF #61, December 1 1997
The Business of Pandering
Issue: NF #60, November 18, 1997
Beyond the Dreams of Avarice (Part 2)
Issue: NF #60, November 18, 1997
Fuzzy Lines Can Be Explosive
Issue: NF #57, October 7, 1997
Beyond the Dreams of Avarice (Part 1)
Issue: NF #57, October 7, 1997
Don't Worry about Impressionable Youth
Issue: NF #56, September 23, 1997
Why All the Fuss about Stockholders?
Author: Marjorie Kelly
Issue: NF #56, September 23, 1997
Intelligent Agents and the Economics of Meaninglessness
Issue: NF #53, July 16, 1997
Postscript to `The Ultimate Worker'
Issue: NF #51, June 18, 1997
Financial Fictions: The View from a Bank
Author: David L. Goldsteen
Issue: NF #51, June 18, 1997
The Ultimate Worker
Issue: NF #50, June 4, 1997
What Price for Our Selves?
Issue: NF #47, April 30, 1997
Getting Schools Wired--or Hooked?
Author: Lowell Monke
Issue: NF #47, April 30, 1997
Sue the Bastards
Issue: NF #46, April 18, 1997
More on Technological Aimlessness
Issue: NF #46, April 18, 1997
Technological Aimlessness
Issue: NF #45, April 9, 1997
This Phone Call Is Brought to You by Macdonalds
Issue: NF #43, March 20, 1997
The New Money: Anonymous But Countable
Issue: NF #42, March 6, 1997
Businesses That Grow Unprincipled
Issue: NF #40, February 5, 1997
The Walmart Syndrome
Issue: NF #39, January 29, 1997
What Kind of Company Do You Work For?
Issue: NF #39, January 29, 1997
Gildered Dreams
Issue: NF #36, December 19, 1996
Privacy in an age of data (part 3)
Issue: NF #30, October 24, 1996
Of computers, both electronic and social
Issue: NF #26, August 17, 1996
Will advertising keep the Net free?
Issue: NF #24, July 23, 1996
Computing To Work
In article: "Forgetting ourselves in the age of automatons"
Issue: NF #23, July 5, 1996
Reengineering society for efficiency
In article: "The illusion of online efficiency"
Issue: NF #20, June 4, 1996
A quick guide to the politics of cyberspace, pt. 4
Author: Richard Sclove
Issue: NF #10, March 19, 1996
A quick guide to the politics of cyberspace, pt. 3
Author: Richard Sclove
Issue: NF #8, February 26, 1996
Liberation and oppression on the Net
Issue: NF #4, January 15, 1996
Censorship
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How Technology Dumbs Down Language
Issue: NF #73, June 18, 1998
Censorship, Kids, and the ACLU
Issue: NF #46, April 18, 1997
Privatizing Censorship
Issue: NF #41, February 20, 1997
Chinese Cookies
Issue: NF #40, February 5, 1997
Editor's note
Issue: NF #28, September 25, 1996
Censorship
In article: "Forgetting ourselves in the age of automatons"
Issue: NF #23, July 5, 1996
Liberation and oppression on the Net
Issue: NF #4, January 15, 1996
The Great Crusade Against Censorship
Issue: NF #2, December 21, 1995
Centralization and authority
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Ubiquitous Tyranny?
In article: "Does the Future Compute?"
Issue: NF #142, February 25, 2003
Does the Computer Eliminate Boring Work?
Issue: NF #77, October 6, 1998
If Big Brother Has Been Dismembered, Are We Safe?
Issue: NF #61, December 1 1997
Distributing Big Brother's Intelligence
Issue: NF #59, November 4, 1997
What Lies Beyond Multiculturalism?
Issue: NF #42, March 6, 1997
Paul Edwards on the Meaning of the Computer
Issue: NF #41, February 20, 1997
Chinese Cookies
Issue: NF #40, February 5, 1997
From Universal Access To Universal Paranoia
Issue: NF #39, January 29, 1997
Net Politics
Issue: NF #36, December 19, 1996
The Net As Centralizing Force
In article: "Editor's note"
Issue: NF #32, November 10, 1996
A quick guide to the politics of cyberspace, pt. 4
Author: Richard Sclove
Issue: NF #10, March 19, 1996
A quick guide to the politics of cyberspace, pt. 3
Author: Richard Sclove
Issue: NF #8, February 26, 1996
Liberation and oppression on the Net
Issue: NF #4, January 15, 1996
Community--virtual and otherwise
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Where We Have Come To (Part 1)
Issue: NF #165, October 25, 2005
The Internet: Reflections on Our Present Discontents
Issue: NF #150, October 7, 2003
More on Email
Issue: NF #124, October 30, 2001
Still Disconnecting
Issue: NF #122, September 18, 2001
How to Prepare for a Frenetic World
Author: Peter Denning
Issue: NF #122, September 18, 2001
Quit Bashing the Media Lab
Author: Amy Bruckman
Issue: NF #122, September 18, 2001
Reply to Amy Bruckman
Author: Langdon Winner
Issue: NF #122, September 18, 2001
Why I Have Disconnected from Email
Issue: NF #121, July 27, 2001
Whatever Happened to the Electronic Cottage?
Author: Langdon Winner
Issue: NF #121, July 27, 2001
On Forgetting to Wear Boots
Issue: NF #117, February 1, 2001
Email Is Not a Solitary Activity
Author: Jiri Baum
Issue: NF #104, March 21, 2000
Response to Jiri Baum
Author: Langdon Winner
Issue: NF #104, March 21, 2000
Enthusiasm and Concern: Results of a New Technology Poll
Author: Langdon Winner
Issue: NF #103, February 29, 2000
Why Johnny is a Cynic
Issue: NF #86, March 11, 1999
I'm Glad the Net `Corrodes' My Culture
Author: Marcelo Rinesi
Issue: NF #85, February 25, 1999
Who Are We Without Our Technologies?
Author: Muktha Jost
Issue: NF #85, February 25, 1999
Privacy and Prejudice
Issue: NF #77, October 6, 1998
A Room of Our Own?
Author: Margit Watts
Issue: NF #66, February 24, 1998
How about a Moratorium on Internet Surveys?
Issue: NF #63, January 6, 1998
The Digital Citizen: More Nonsense from *Wired*
Issue: NF #61, December 1 1997
One Man, His Daughter, and Several Neighborhoods
Author: Peter Kaiser
Issue: NF #43, March 20, 1997
Seeking Balance
Issue: NF #42, March 6, 1997
Sex on the Internet
Issue: NF #35, December 5, 1996
Networks of Convenience
In article: "Editor's notes"
Issue: NF #33, November 19, 1996
Privacy in an age of data (part 2)
Issue: NF #29, October 17, 1996
The Placeless, Neighborless Realm
Author: Tom Jay
Issue: NF #26, August 17, 1996
Reengineering society for efficiency
In article: "The illusion of online efficiency"
Issue: NF #20, June 4, 1996
An American philosopher and Internet chat groups
Issue: NF #16, April 22, 1996
Communes, the Net, and self-governance
Issue: NF #9, March 11, 1996
A quick guide to the politics of cyberspace
Author: Richard Sclove
Issue: NF #6, February 6, 1996
The Strong Pull of MUDs
In article: "The Phenomenology of Computing -- Two Tales from the Net"
Issue: NF #1, December 14, 1995
Computer applications
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The Heart's Song
Issue: NF #157, October 21, 2004
Re-engineering the Personal Resume
Issue: NF #156, April 20, 2004
CyberTrackers: Bushmen and Information Technology
Issue: NF #154, February 12, 2004
Where Does the User End and PowerPoint Begin?
Issue: NF #153, January 6, 2004
Is AI Unfairly Maligned?
Issue: NF #131, April 30, 2002
Over-justified Toys
Issue: NF #113, October 31, 2000
Will Media Lab Chefs Some Day Become Intelligent?
Issue: NF #87, March 30, 1999
Can We Learn to Speak Again?
Issue: NF #80, November 24, 1998
When Computers Can't Finger You
Issue: NF #71, May 14, 1998
Machines Are Extensions of Us--So Stand Clear!
Issue: NF #66, February 24, 1998
Trust Me
Issue: NF #66, February 24, 1998
Toward More User-friendly Refrigerators
Issue: NF #65, February 10, 1998
Neural Nets, Stethoscopes, and Patients
Issue: NF #57, October 7, 1997
How To Kill and Have Fun
Issue: NF #55, September 9, 1997
Big Brother in the Bathroom?
Issue: NF #55, September 9, 1997
Spreadsheet Errors
Issue: NF #54, July 30, 1997
Child, Teacher, World: Three Elements of Education
Issue: NF #46, April 18, 1997
The New Money: Anonymous But Countable
Issue: NF #42, March 6, 1997
Who Is Embedding Whom?
Issue: NF #39, January 29, 1997
A Note on the Next Fifty Years
Issue: NF #39, January 29, 1997
Phone Answering Systems in Retreat?
Issue: NF #38, January 16, 1997
Is Technological Improvement What We Want?
Issue: NF #38, January 16, 1997
Imprisoning Criminals in Software
Issue: NF #35, December 5, 1996
You Are the Network
In article: "Editor's notes"
Issue: NF #33, November 19, 1996
Death Software
In article: "Editor's note"
Issue: NF #30, October 24, 1996
The Fundamental Deceit of Technology
Issue: NF #1, December 14, 1995
Computer as agent of the past
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Invisible Tools, Emotionally Supportive Pals, Or...?
Issue: NF #159, December 7, 2004
Can We Learn to Speak Again?
Issue: NF #80, November 24, 1998
Does the Computer Eliminate Boring Work?
Issue: NF #77, October 6, 1998
Imprisoning Criminals in Software
Issue: NF #35, December 5, 1996
Forgetting ourselves in the age of automatons
Issue: NF #23, July 5, 1996
Computers vs. people
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Where We Have Come To (Part 1)
Issue: NF #165, October 25, 2005
Invisible Tools, Emotionally Supportive Pals, Or...?
Issue: NF #159, December 7, 2004
Re-engineering the Personal Resume
Issue: NF #156, April 20, 2004
DNA and Voting Machines
Issue: NF #150, October 7, 2003
The Internet: Reflections on Our Present Discontents
Issue: NF #150, October 7, 2003
From HAL to Kismet: Your Evolution Dollars at Work
Issue: NF #149, August 28, 2003
Of Factory Farms and the Master Race
Issue: NF #145, May 20, 2003
Does the Future Compute?
Issue: NF #142, February 25, 2003
Conversing with Ella
Issue: NF #140, December 26, 2002
Technology, Alienation, and Freedom
Issue: NF #134, July 18, 2002
On Giving Rats a Virtual Life
Issue: NF #132, May 21, 2002
How Doing Faster Means Doing Less
Issue: NF #131, April 30, 2002
What Are Technology's Gifts?
Author: Kevin Kelly and Steve Talbott
Issue: NF #130, April 2, 2002
Who Says Computers Are Becoming More Intuitive?
Issue: NF #128, February 12, 2002
Wrangling over Odysseus: An Exchange with Kevin Kelly
Issue: NF #126, December 18, 2001
The Deceiving Virtues of Technology
Issue: NF #125, November 15, 2001
How to Prepare for a Frenetic World
Author: Peter Denning
Issue: NF #122, September 18, 2001
Quit Bashing the Media Lab
Author: Amy Bruckman
Issue: NF #122, September 18, 2001
Reply to Amy Bruckman
Author: Langdon Winner
Issue: NF #122, September 18, 2001
Whatever Happened to the Electronic Cottage?
Author: Langdon Winner
Issue: NF #121, July 27, 2001
Introducing the Automatic Professor Machine
Author: Langdon Winner
Issue: NF #118, March 1, 2001
Bill Gates' New Concerns
Issue: NF #115, December 21, 2000
The Trouble with Ubiquitous Technology Pushers (Part 3)
Issue: NF #112, October 5, 2000
The New, Soulless University?
Issue: NF #104, March 21, 2000
When Living Becomes an Inconvenience
Author: Phil Walsh
Issue: NF #96, October 14, 1999
On Appropriate Behavior for Machines
Author: Victor Grey
Issue: NF #96, October 14, 1999
The Caller ID Arms Race
Author: Steve Baumgarten
Issue: NF #96, October 14, 1999
If Computers Behaved Like Toilets
Author: David Miller
Issue: NF #96, October 14, 1999
Virtuality and the Atomization of Experience
Issue: NF #87, March 30, 1999
Trust Me: I'm Vulnerable
Issue: NF #83, January 19, 1999
Can We Learn to Speak Again?
Issue: NF #80, November 24, 1998
Are We All Petty Bureaucrats?
Issue: NF #74, July 9, 1998
Complex, Emergent, Self-organizing Nonsense
Issue: NF #74, July 9, 1998
Ties That Bind
Issue: NF #72, June 2, 1998
When Computers Can't Finger You
Issue: NF #71, May 14, 1998
Brief Notes
Issue: NF #71, May 14, 1998
Machines Are Extensions of Us--So Stand Clear!
Issue: NF #66, February 24, 1998
Breaking-in Is Not Hard to Do
Issue: NF #66, February 24, 1998
Trust Me
Issue: NF #66, February 24, 1998
How Do Justice Department Prosecutors Differ from Lara Croft?
Issue: NF #65, February 10, 1998
Finally: Relief for Overworked Fingers
Issue: NF #65, February 10, 1998
How Technology Co-opted the Good (Part 2)
Issue: NF #65, February 10, 1998
Is Technology Good for Society? (Your Answer, Please)
Issue: NF #64, January 20, 1998
How Technology Co-opted the Good (Part 1)
Issue: NF #64, January 20, 1998
Disfigured Hope: Arthur Zajonc on Technology's Promise
Issue: NF #62, December 16 1997
First It Was Quality Time...
Issue: NF #60, November 18, 1997
Computer-prompted Senate?
Issue: NF #59, November 4, 1997
Distributing Big Brother's Intelligence
Issue: NF #59, November 4, 1997
For Whom the Locomotive Rolls
Issue: NF #56, September 23, 1997
Toward the Great Singularity (Part 3)
Issue: NF #53, July 16, 1997
Laws That Are Made To Be Broken
Issue: NF #52, July 2, 1997
Toward the Great Singularity (Part 2)
Issue: NF #52, July 2, 1997
Toward the Great Singularity (Part 1)
Issue: NF #51, June 18, 1997
Postscript to `The Ultimate Worker'
Issue: NF #51, June 18, 1997
Financial Fictions: The View from a Bank
Author: David L. Goldsteen
Issue: NF #51, June 18, 1997
The Ultimate Worker
Issue: NF #50, June 4, 1997
Chess and Symbolism
Issue: NF #48, May 14, 1997
Is Technological Improvement What We Want? (Part 3)
Issue: NF #48, May 14, 1997
More on Technological Aimlessness
Issue: NF #46, April 18, 1997
Is There a Case for Intrusive User Interfaces?
Issue: NF #45, April 9, 1997
Technological Aimlessness
Issue: NF #45, April 9, 1997
Allowing the World to Change
Issue: NF #44, April 2, 1997
One Man, His Daughter, and Several Neighborhoods
Author: Peter Kaiser
Issue: NF #43, March 20, 1997
Seeking Balance
Issue: NF #42, March 6, 1997
David Kline on SLT on David Kline
Issue: NF #40, February 5, 1997
Is Technological Improvement What We Want? (Part 2)
Issue: NF #40, February 5, 1997
From Universal Access To Universal Paranoia
Issue: NF #39, January 29, 1997
Who Is Embedding Whom?
Issue: NF #39, January 29, 1997
A Note on the Next Fifty Years
Issue: NF #39, January 29, 1997
Is Technological Improvement What We Want?
Issue: NF #38, January 16, 1997
Indiscretions
Author: Frank Willison
Issue: NF #36, December 19, 1996
Remembering Ourselves
In article: "Forgetting ourselves in the age of automatons"
Issue: NF #23, July 5, 1996
Damn the computers
Author: Kevin Jones
Issue: NF #13, March 28, 1996
Every tool is an obstacle
Issue: NF #12, March 26, 1996
Mr. Quince, change happens
Author: Kent Quirk
Issue: NF #9, March 11, 1996
In (partial) defense of Peter Quince
Issue: NF #9, March 11, 1996
A nineteenth-century man confronts the computer
Issue: NF #8, February 26, 1996
Committing ourselves to tinkerers
Issue: NF #7, February 14, 1996
The Phenomenology of Computing -- Two Tales from the Net
Issue: NF #1, December 14, 1995
Escaping the Computer's Pull through Ironic Immersion
In article: "The Phenomenology of Computing -- Two Tales from the Net"
Issue: NF #1, December 14, 1995
Culture of the Net
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Where We Have Come To (Part 1)
Issue: NF #165, October 25, 2005
High Noon at the DB Corral
Issue: NF #132, May 21, 2002
Enthusiasm and Concern: Results of a New Technology Poll
Author: Langdon Winner
Issue: NF #103, February 29, 2000
I'm Glad the Net `Corrodes' My Culture
Author: Marcelo Rinesi
Issue: NF #85, February 25, 1999
Who Are We Without Our Technologies?
Author: Muktha Jost
Issue: NF #85, February 25, 1999
How about a Moratorium on Internet Surveys?
Issue: NF #63, January 6, 1998
The Digital Citizen: More Nonsense from *Wired*
Issue: NF #61, December 1 1997
The Net As Womb
Issue: NF #53, July 16, 1997
Multiculturalism without People
Author: Lowell Monke
Issue: NF #51, June 18, 1997
The Net's Deceit in Teaching Multiculturalism
Author: Lowell Monke
Issue: NF #49, May 22, 1997
The Market for Human Suffering
Author: Mark Grundy
Issue: NF #45, April 9, 1997
Surfing Ancient, Homeric Fields
Issue: NF #44, April 2, 1997
Feeling stupid
Author: Paul Griffin
Issue: NF #27, September 10, 1996
Forgetting ourselves in the age of automatons
Issue: NF #23, July 5, 1996
The Internet As Terminator
Issue: NF #3, January 4, 1996
The Great Crusade Against Censorship
Issue: NF #2, December 21, 1995
Digital age nonsense
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Does the Future Compute?
Issue: NF #142, February 25, 2003
Borgmann on the Wonders of the Information Age
Issue: NF #96, October 14, 1999
The Fascination with Ubiquitous Control
Issue: NF #95, September 23, 1999
Toward Appropriate Behavior by Objects
Author: Alan Wexelblat
Issue: NF #95, September 23, 1999
Response to Alan Wexelblat
Author: Langdon Winner
Issue: NF #95, September 23, 1999
The Voluntary Complexity Movement
Author: Langdon Winner
Issue: NF #94, September 14, 1999
Couch Potatoes Feeling Oppressed at M.I.T.
Issue: NF #88, April 16, 1999
Will Media Lab Chefs Some Day Become Intelligent?
Issue: NF #87, March 30, 1999
The Internet and Competition
Issue: NF #75, July 30, 1998
Toward a Global Super-consciousness
Issue: NF #63, January 6, 1998
Is *Wired* a New Age Journal?
Issue: NF #34, November 25, 1996
Disabilities and computers
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On Forgetting to Wear Boots
Issue: NF #117, February 1, 2001
The Many Voices of Destiny
Issue: NF #102, February 16, 2000
Can Technology Make the Handicapped Whole?
Issue: NF #92, July 21, 1999
Distance education
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Requiem for Distant Educators
Issue: NF #132, May 21, 2002
Education by Acronym
Issue: NF #104, March 21, 2000
The New, Soulless University?
Issue: NF #104, March 21, 2000
On Constructivism in Education
Issue: NF #96, October 14, 1999
Lessons about Doing Distance Education Well
Author: John McHugh
Issue: NF #90, May 14, 1999
A Worthwhile Distance Education Course
Author: Phil Walsh
Issue: NF #90, May 14, 1999
Who is a Drop-out?
Author: Graham Mainwaring
Issue: NF #90, May 14, 1999
A Failure of the Medium or a Failure of Teachers?
Author: Bruce A. Metcalf
Issue: NF #90, May 14, 1999
How Compelling is Distance Education?
Issue: NF #88, April 16, 1999
Digital Diploma Mills Grinding to a Halt?
Issue: NF #81, December 10, 1998
Who's Killing Higher Education? (Or is It Suicide?)
Issue: NF #78, October 15, 1998
Report from the Digital Diploma Mills Conference
Author: Langdon Winner
Issue: NF #72, June 2, 1998
Education and computers
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What's (Still) Killing Higher Education?
Issue: NF #172, April 22, 2008
Maybe We Should Let Computers *Have* the Schools
Issue: NF #161, March 9, 2005
Tech Tonic
Issue: NF #157, October 21, 2004
A New Assessment of Computers in the Classroom
Issue: NF #151, October 30, 2003
Aphorisms on Computers in Classrooms
Issue: NF #147, July 15, 2003
Sex, the Internet, and Educational Reform
Issue: NF #132, May 21, 2002
How to Teach in a Post-Modem World
In article: "Books Received"
Issue: NF #126, December 18, 2001
Introducing the Automatic Professor Machine
Author: Langdon Winner
Issue: NF #118, March 1, 2001
Do We Really Want Higher Test Scores?
Issue: NF #113, October 31, 2000
Over-justified Toys
Issue: NF #113, October 31, 2000
Fool's Gold: A Critical Look at Computers in Childhood
Author: Report of the Alliance for Childhood
Issue: NF #111, September 12, 2000
Children and Computers: A Call for Action
Author: Position Statement--Alliance for Childhood
Issue: NF #111, September 12, 2000
Mark Pesce's Earth Toy
Issue: NF #107, June 1, 2000
How to Put Distance between Your Child and School
Issue: NF #107, June 1, 2000
An Education That Transcends Information
Author: Carol Cole
Issue: NF #107, June 1, 2000
Education Includes the Transmission of Attitudes
Author: Klaus Rieckhoff
Issue: NF #105, April 18, 2000
The Book's Weakness Is Also Its Strength
Author: Wendell Piez
Issue: NF #105, April 18, 2000
Education by Acronym
Issue: NF #104, March 21, 2000
Making Guinea Pigs of Students
Issue: NF #101, January 27, 2000
Technology Literacy
Issue: NF #99, December 9, 1999
Dangerous Baby Walkers, Dangerous Software?
Issue: NF #96, October 14, 1999
On Constructivism in Education
Issue: NF #96, October 14, 1999
The Oral Foundations of Learning
Author: David Abram
Issue: NF #96, October 14, 1999
When Everything Is Computed
Issue: NF #94, September 14, 1999
Schooling the Imagination
Issue: NF #94, September 14, 1999
Is High School Dispensable?
Issue: NF #93, August 19, 1999
Tales from the Computerized Classroom
Issue: NF #89, May 4, 1999
Failure to Connect: Jane Healy on Classroom Computers
Issue: NF #89, May 4, 1999
I Wonder What My Brain is Thinking?
Issue: NF #89, May 4, 1999
Open Net, Padlocked Libraries
Issue: NF #87, March 30, 1999
The High Stakes of Standardized Testing
Author: Edward Miller
Issue: NF #87, March 30, 1999
When Computers Disappear, Will Salesmen Disappear Too?
Issue: NF #86, March 11, 1999
Why Johnny is a Cynic
Issue: NF #86, March 11, 1999
Firestorm in a Kindergarten
Author: Stuart Cohen
Issue: NF #86, March 11, 1999
When Film Projectors Were Going to Redeem Education
Author: Alan Winston
Issue: NF #86, March 11, 1999
How to Beef Up Your Infant's Knowledge Base
Issue: NF #83, January 19, 1999
Wired Schools, Broken Trust
Author: Lowell Monke
Issue: NF #83, January 19, 1999
Digital Diploma Mills Grinding to a Halt?
Issue: NF #81, December 10, 1998
Computer-Centered Learning
Author: Lowell Monke
Issue: NF #81, December 10, 1998
Toddlers as Geometricians
Issue: NF #80, November 24, 1998
When Childhood Should Rule
Issue: NF #80, November 24, 1998
On Selling Educational Software
Issue: NF #79, October 27, 1998
Why Information is Not Enough
Author: Lowell Monke
Issue: NF #79, October 27, 1998
College as a Cover for Grade School Failure
Author: Dan Lyke
Issue: NF #79, October 27, 1998
What the Objectors to Distance Education Ignore
Author: Peter Denning
Issue: NF #79, October 27, 1998
On Activism and the Credential Wars
Author: Bruce A. Metcalf
Issue: NF #79, October 27, 1998
The Value of a Real Canadian Goose
Author: Stuart Cohen
Issue: NF #77, October 6, 1998
Is E-trash Necessary for a Good Education?
Issue: NF #76, September 15, 1998
America Screws Up
Issue: NF #76, September 15, 1998
In Search of Reality
Author: Gary Davis
Issue: NF #76, September 15, 1998
Mixed Reactions to Participative Knowing
Author: Stephen Keith Sagarin
Issue: NF #76, September 15, 1998
Following up
Issue: NF #75, July 30, 1998
The Teacher Is Central, but `Teaching' Is Not
Issue: NF #74, July 9, 1998
What Is Balance?
Issue: NF #74, July 9, 1998
Where Were the Academics When It Counted?
Author: Bob Jacobson
Issue: NF #73, June 18, 1998
Response to Bob Jacobson
Author: Langdon Winner
Issue: NF #73, June 18, 1998
Report from the Digital Diploma Mills Conference
Author: Langdon Winner
Issue: NF #72, June 2, 1998
The Most Powerful Tools Are Unbearably Simple
Issue: NF #71, May 14, 1998
Brief Notes
Issue: NF #71, May 14, 1998
Why Is the Moon Getting Farther Away?
Issue: NF #70, April 30, 1998
The Computer as Teacher
Issue: NF #68, March 31, 1998
The Computers That Run Our Schools
Author: Lowell Monke
Issue: NF #66, February 24, 1998
Problems with Drill-and-test Educational Software
Author: Ed Miller
Issue: NF #66, February 24, 1998
A Compulsion to Learn?
Issue: NF #65, February 10, 1998
Consulting as a Respectable Business
Issue: NF #64, January 20, 1998
Teaching the Three `M's in the New Millennium
Author: Edward Miller
Forwarded article: #1998.1 (January 15, 1998)
The Bill for All Those Computer Donations Is Now Due
Issue: NF #63, January 6, 1998
Computers in the Classroom: Where's the Beef?
Issue: NF #62, December 16 1997
What Movies and Computers Have in Common
Issue: NF #61, December 1 1997
The Threat of Computer Illiteracy among Babies
Issue: NF #61, December 1 1997
These Are the Classrooms the State Has Made
Issue: NF #60, November 18, 1997
Teaching Children To Stalk the Wild Information
Issue: NF #59, November 4, 1997
Education As If the World Mattered
Issue: NF #56, September 23, 1997
Sick Campus Networks
Issue: NF #55, September 9, 1997
Education and the Net--Read and Weep
Issue: NF #54, July 30, 1997
Helping Students Understand Computers
Issue: NF #54, July 30, 1997
The Phantom Pursuit of Computer Literacy
Issue: NF #53, July 16, 1997
Multiculturalism without People
Author: Lowell Monke
Issue: NF #51, June 18, 1997
What Are Classroom Computers For?
Issue: NF #49, May 22, 1997
Speeding up the Classroom
Issue: NF #49, May 22, 1997
The Hollowing Out of Children
Issue: NF #49, May 22, 1997
Where Are the Investigative Journalists?
Issue: NF #49, May 22, 1997
The Net's Deceit in Teaching Multiculturalism
Author: Lowell Monke
Issue: NF #49, May 22, 1997
An unfunded mandate to teach children to read
Author: Lowell Monke
Issue: NF #48, May 14, 1997
Getting Schools Wired--or Hooked?
Author: Lowell Monke
Issue: NF #47, April 30, 1997
Censorship, Kids, and the ACLU
Issue: NF #46, April 18, 1997
Child, Teacher, World: Three Elements of Education
Issue: NF #46, April 18, 1997
Education: Waiting for the Outcry
Issue: NF #44, April 2, 1997
Education Madness: Further Reports from the Field
Issue: NF #43, March 20, 1997
You Can Fire the Teachers, But You Still Need the Technicians
Issue: NF #42, March 6, 1997
Privatizing Censorship
Issue: NF #41, February 20, 1997
Classroom Revolutions
Issue: NF #36, December 19, 1996
How Long Before Reality Sets In?
Issue: NF #34, November 25, 1996
Beyond Luddism In High School
In article: "Is *Wired* a New Age Journal?"
Issue: NF #34, November 25, 1996
Beyond ecophobia
Author: David Sobel
Issue: NF #33, November 19, 1996
Editor's note
Issue: NF #28, September 25, 1996
Education; Mysticism
In article: "Forgetting ourselves in the age of automatons"
Issue: NF #23, July 5, 1996
Computers at School: The Web and the Plow
Author: Lowell Monke
Issue: NF #19, May 16, 1996
Tyranny of the 21st century
Issue: NF #18, April 30, 1996
The Net, or Huckleberry Finn?
Issue: NF #10, March 19, 1996
Do computers benefit education?
Issue: NF #10, March 19, 1996
Can the `End of Education' Be `Life on the Screen'?
Author: Lowell Monke
Issue: NF #9, March 11, 1996
Electronic games
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Pianists and Video Game Players
Issue: NF #159, December 7, 2004
The Most Powerful Tools Are Unbearably Simple
Issue: NF #71, May 14, 1998
Amusing Ourselves into a Fit
Issue: NF #63, January 6, 1998
Electronic mysticism
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Alien Technologies That Operate on Us
Issue: NF #98, November 23, 1999
Toward a Global Super-consciousness
Issue: NF #63, January 6, 1998
Toward the Great Singularity (Part 3)
Issue: NF #53, July 16, 1997
Toward the Great Singularity (Part 2)
Issue: NF #52, July 2, 1997
Toward the Great Singularity (Part 1)
Issue: NF #51, June 18, 1997
Wired As a New Age Publication
In article: "Is *Wired* a New Age Journal?"
Issue: NF #34, November 25, 1996
Education; Mysticism
In article: "Forgetting ourselves in the age of automatons"
Issue: NF #23, July 5, 1996
Masculine transcendentalism
Issue: NF #19, May 16, 1996
Luciferian revolt or Electric Gaia?
Author: Michel Bauwens
Issue: NF #18, April 30, 1996
Email
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A Lot of Unease about Email
In article: "Editor's Note"
Issue: NF #124, October 30, 2001
More on Email
Issue: NF #124, October 30, 2001
Still Disconnecting
Issue: NF #122, September 18, 2001
Why I Have Disconnected from Email
Issue: NF #121, July 27, 2001
Environmental issues
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Laying Bare the Unintended Consequences of Genetic Engineering
Issue: NF #172, April 22, 2008
Medicine and the Environment
Issue: NF #156, April 20, 2004
Commerce as Storytelling
Issue: NF #149, August 28, 2003
Raising Hogs Unimaginatively
Issue: NF #147, July 15, 2003
Are Corporations to Blame?
Issue: NF #143, April 1, 2003
Barry Commoner on the De-throning of DNA
Issue: NF #128, February 12, 2002
Ecological Conversation
Issue: NF #127, January 10, 2002
An Entomologist's Killing Fields
Issue: NF #124, October 30, 2001
Sowing Technology
Author: Craig Holdrege and Steve Talbott
Issue: NF #123, October 9, 2001
On Activism and an Open Mind
In article: "Editor's Note"
Issue: NF #118, March 1, 2001
Water, Energy, and Global Warming
Author: Michael D'Aleo and Stephen Edelglass
Issue: NF #118, March 1, 2001
Factory-farmed Pigs: Further Thoughts
Author: Douglas Sloan
Issue: NF #116, January 11, 2001
Technology, Animals, and People
Issue: NF #114, November 30, 2000
The Pigs of Iowa
Author: Lowell Monke
Issue: NF #114, November 30, 2000
Death and the Single Cause
Issue: NF #110, August 31, 2000
Mark Pesce's Earth Toy
Issue: NF #107, June 1, 2000
Free Trade and Ethics
Author: John Pierce
Issue: NF #107, June 1, 2000
The World Trade Organization: Economics as Technology
Issue: NF #106, May 9, 2000
Why Do We Celebrate Change While Refusing It?
Issue: NF #104, March 21, 2000
Movements, Too, Must Be Allowed to Die
Issue: NF #95, September 23, 1999
Cluttering Our Lives for Profit
Issue: NF #86, March 11, 1999
The Farm in Its Landscape
Author: Craig Holdrege
Issue: NF #86, March 11, 1999
Communing with a Condor
Issue: NF #69, April 14, 1998
Improving Productivity--with Horses
Issue: NF #69, April 14, 1998
How Technology Co-opted the Good (Part 2)
Issue: NF #65, February 10, 1998
Technology and Chaos
Issue: NF #64, January 20, 1998
How Technology Co-opted the Good (Part 1)
Issue: NF #64, January 20, 1998
Accelerated Life, Computers, and the Environment
Issue: NF #54, July 30, 1997
Alice Outwater on Engineering Our Water Resources
Issue: NF #52, July 2, 1997
Beyond ecophobia
Author: David Sobel
Issue: NF #33, November 19, 1996
Death of a gyppo
Author: Robert Leo Heilman
Issue: NF #24, July 23, 1996
Evolution
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A sectarian quarrel? Intelligent design and neo-Darwinism (September 12, 2013)
Issue: NF #189, September 17, 2013
Genes and the Central Fallacy of Evolutionary Theory
Issue: NF #186, February 28, 2013
How Biologists Lost Sight of the Meaning of Life
Issue: NF #184, May 10, 2012
Evolution and the Illusion of Randomness
Issue: NF #183, November 10, 2011
Form and Color in the Animal Kingdom
Issue: NF #178, October 21, 2009
Evolution of consciousness
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Hold a Blossom to the Light
Issue: NF #141, January 28, 2003
The Evolution of Progress
Issue: NF #136, September 26, 2002
Technology, Alienation, and Freedom
Issue: NF #134, July 18, 2002
Ecological Conversation
Issue: NF #127, January 10, 2002
Wrangling over Odysseus: An Exchange with Kevin Kelly
Issue: NF #126, December 18, 2001
The Deceiving Virtues of Technology
Issue: NF #125, November 15, 2001
Image Ascendent, or Descendent?
Issue: NF #109, August 3, 2000
On the New Eugenics
Issue: NF #102, February 16, 2000
Breaking through to Reality
Issue: NF #81, December 10, 1998
The Executioner's Motto
Issue: NF #55, September 9, 1997
Are Our Brains Changing?
Issue: NF #54, July 30, 1997
Toward the Great Singularity (Part 3)
Issue: NF #53, July 16, 1997
Surfing Ancient, Homeric Fields
Issue: NF #44, April 2, 1997
The Ultimate Enclosure
In article: "Paul Edwards on the Meaning of the Computer"
Issue: NF #41, February 20, 1997
Fundamental deceit of technology
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Who Says Computers Are Becoming More Intuitive?
Issue: NF #128, February 12, 2002
Double-edged Technologies
Issue: NF #124, October 30, 2001
Can Photography Blind Us?
Issue: NF #73, June 18, 1998
Ties That Bind
Issue: NF #72, June 2, 1998
Toward More User-friendly Refrigerators
Issue: NF #65, February 10, 1998
How Technology Co-opted the Good (Part 2)
Issue: NF #65, February 10, 1998
How Technology Co-opted the Good (Part 1)
Issue: NF #64, January 20, 1998
Is Technological Improvement What We Want? (Part 3)
Issue: NF #48, May 14, 1997
The End of Programming?
Issue: NF #41, February 20, 1997
Is Technological Improvement What We Want? (Part 2)
Issue: NF #40, February 5, 1997
Is Technological Improvement What We Want?
Issue: NF #38, January 16, 1997
Locking Ourselves in to Standards
In article: "Editor's note"
Issue: NF #32, November 10, 1996
The Fundamental Deceit of Technology
Issue: NF #1, December 14, 1995
Genetics and genetic engineering
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Will the real Walter Gilbert please stand up? (August 12, 2013)
Issue: NF #189, September 17, 2013
Shattering the Genome (August 2, 2013)
Issue: NF #189, September 17, 2013
What If We Could See Everything Bearing on Gene Expression?
Issue: NF #188, July 19, 2013
Revolution in the Making? Notes from the Biological Literature
Issue: NF #187, June 20, 2013
Have Biologists Really Overcome Gene-Centered Thinking?
Issue: NF #187, June 20, 2013
Genes and the Central Fallacy of Evolutionary Theory
Issue: NF #186, February 28, 2013
Supplemental Articles
Issue: NF #186, February 28, 2013
How Biologists Lost Sight of the Meaning of Life
Issue: NF #184, May 10, 2012
What Do Organisms Mean?
Issue: NF #182, February 22, 2011
The Unbearable Wholeness of Beings
Issue: NF #181, December 9, 2010
Getting Over the Code Delusion: Biology's Awakening
Issue: NF #179, February 18, 2010
The Mediating Dance of the Nucleosome
Issue: NF #177, July 9, 2009
The Chromosome in Nuclear Space
Issue: NF #176, May 28, 2009
Twilight of the Double Helix
Issue: NF #175, March 12, 2009
Laying Bare the Unintended Consequences of Genetic Engineering
Issue: NF #172, April 22, 2008
Can the New Science of Evo-Devo Explain the Form of Organisms?
Issue: NF #171, December 13, 2007
Ghosts in the Evolutionary Machinery
Issue: NF #170, July 19, 2007
Science's Forbidden Question
Author: Craig Holdrege and Steve Talbott
Issue: NF #166, January 16, 2007
Mystery Inheritance
Issue: NF #163, May 13, 2005
Practical Reductionism
Issue: NF #163, May 13, 2005
On Scrambling Genes Safely and Precisely
Issue: NF #161, March 9, 2005
Logic, DNA, and Poetry
Issue: NF #160, January 25, 2005
Such a Worm as I
Issue: NF #153, January 6, 2004
Biotechnology, Ethics, and the Arc of Life
Issue: NF #152, December 9, 2003
Adrift in the Genome Without Instructions
Issue: NF #150, October 7, 2003
Perfecting the Dance, Forgetting the Dancer
Issue: NF #150, October 7, 2003
Missing Weapons
Issue: NF #147, July 15, 2003
Notes on Genetic Engineering
Issue: NF #147, July 15, 2003
Of Factory Farms and the Master Race
Issue: NF #145, May 20, 2003
Is There a Gene for Famine Relief?
Issue: NF #145, May 20, 2003
Me and My Double Helixes
Issue: NF #144, April 29, 2003
Should Genetically Modified Foods Be Labeled?
Author: Craig Holdrege
Issue: NF #135, August 29, 2002
Nature's Defective Xerox Machine
Issue: NF #129, March 12, 2002
Barry Commoner on the De-throning of DNA
Issue: NF #128, February 12, 2002
Sowing Technology
Author: Craig Holdrege and Steve Talbott
Issue: NF #123, October 9, 2001
Growing Potatoes in the Ivory Tower
Issue: NF #116, January 11, 2001
Death and the Single Cause
Issue: NF #110, August 31, 2000
Golden Genes and World Hunger: Let Them Eat Transgenic Rice?
Issue: NF #108, July 6, 2000
Genome Hackers
Issue: NF #105, April 18, 2000
We Need More Than Shocked Indignation
Author: Miles Nordin
Issue: NF #103, February 29, 2000
I'm Not Sure I'm Ready to Trade in My `Defective' Body
Author: Russell Lear
Issue: NF #103, February 29, 2000
Recognizing the Limits of Our Understanding
Author: Joshua Yeidel
Issue: NF #103, February 29, 2000
Tinkering with Ourselves
Issue: NF #102, February 16, 2000
On the New Eugenics
Issue: NF #102, February 16, 2000
Who Is on the Receiving End of the Genetic Engineer's Power?
Issue: NF #100, January 6, 2000
Who Gave Away Control of the World's Germ Plasm?
Issue: NF #98, November 23, 1999
Your Food is a Little Bit Safer Today
Issue: NF #96, October 14, 1999
What Makes a Technology Inevitable?
Issue: NF #95, September 23, 1999
A Recipe for Calamity
Issue: NF #85, February 25, 1999
Imagining a Better Potato
Issue: NF #83, January 19, 1999
Milk That's Good for Tumors
Issue: NF #82, January 5, 1999
The Human Genome as a Book of Lies
Issue: NF #81, December 10, 1998
The Tyranny of the Gene
Author: Craig Holdrege
Issue: NF #80, November 24, 1998
Loosing Genetic Restraints (Scene 1)
Issue: NF #77, October 6, 1998
Loosing Genetic Restraints (Scene 2)
Issue: NF #77, October 6, 1998
Physicians and Scientists against Genetically Engineered Food
In article: "Announcements and Resources"
Issue: NF #76, September 15, 1998
Is Genetic Engineering `Natural'?
Issue: NF #75, July 30, 1998
Garbling the Seeds of the Future
Issue: NF #74, July 9, 1998
Next: Pigs That Fly?
Issue: NF #72, June 2, 1998
The Human Being as Chimpanzee
Issue: NF #67, March 12, 1998
The Human Side of Cloning
Author: Craig Holdrege
Issue: NF #67, March 12, 1998
Cloning a Mirage
Issue: NF #67, March 12, 1998
I Scrambled Your Genes (But Don't Blame Me--I Just Work Here)
Issue: NF #62, December 16 1997
Pharming the Cow
Author: Craig Holdrege
Issue: NF #43, March 20, 1997
I and My Genes
Issue: NF #38, January 16, 1997
The trouble with genetic engineering
Issue: NF #31, November 5, 1996
Global village
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The Barren Global Vision of Thomas Friedman
Issue: NF #163, May 13, 2005
CyberTrackers: Bushmen and Information Technology
Issue: NF #154, February 12, 2004
Commerce as Storytelling
Issue: NF #149, August 28, 2003
Does the Future Compute?
Issue: NF #142, February 25, 2003
Complexity, Trust and Terror
Author: Langdon Winner
Issue: NF #137, October 22, 2002
Whatever Happened to the Electronic Cottage?
Author: Langdon Winner
Issue: NF #121, July 27, 2001
Beyond Elite Globalization
Issue: NF #120, April 24, 2001
Mark Pesce's Earth Toy
Issue: NF #107, June 1, 2000
Laughing Our Way to the Global Village
Issue: NF #106, May 9, 2000
The World Trade Organization: Economics as Technology
Issue: NF #106, May 9, 2000
Globalism Means Living with Your Neighbor
Issue: NF #89, May 4, 1999
Why Johnny is a Cynic
Issue: NF #86, March 11, 1999
I'm Glad the Net `Corrodes' My Culture
Author: Marcelo Rinesi
Issue: NF #85, February 25, 1999
Who Are We Without Our Technologies?
Author: Muktha Jost
Issue: NF #85, February 25, 1999
Want to Globalize? Then Localize!
Issue: NF #84, February 9, 1999
How Technology Dumbs Down Language
Issue: NF #73, June 18, 1998
Move Along, Now!
Issue: NF #69, April 14, 1998
Multiculturalism without People
Author: Lowell Monke
Issue: NF #51, June 18, 1997
The Net's Deceit in Teaching Multiculturalism
Author: Lowell Monke
Issue: NF #49, May 22, 1997
This Phone Call Is Brought to You by Macdonalds
Issue: NF #43, March 20, 1997
Dreams of a Global Village
Issue: NF #37, January 8, 1997
Networks of Convenience
In article: "Editor's notes"
Issue: NF #33, November 19, 1996
Health and medicine
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On Scrambling Genes Safely and Precisely
Issue: NF #161, March 9, 2005
The Heart's Song
Issue: NF #157, October 21, 2004
Tales of Wholeness
Issue: NF #156, April 20, 2004
Medicine and the Environment
Issue: NF #156, April 20, 2004
Desperate Choices
Issue: NF #156, April 20, 2004
On Treating Hyperactive Children with Drugs
Issue: NF #154, February 12, 2004
From Estrogen to Testosterone
Issue: NF #152, December 9, 2003
Biotechnology, Ethics, and the Arc of Life
Issue: NF #152, December 9, 2003
Perfecting the Dance, Forgetting the Dancer
Issue: NF #150, October 7, 2003
On Being Wholehearted
Issue: NF #140, December 26, 2002
From Baby Walkers to High Tech: The Anti-developmental Stance
Issue: NF #135, August 29, 2002
Diagnosing Lady Hamilton's Portrait
Issue: NF #119, March 27, 2001
Bill Gates' New Concerns
Issue: NF #115, December 21, 2000
What Happens When You Medicalize Childbirth
Issue: NF #105, April 18, 2000
The Many Voices of Destiny
Issue: NF #102, February 16, 2000
Life-saving Technologies That Kill
Issue: NF #98, November 23, 1999
The Distorting Potentials of Technical Capability
Issue: NF #95, September 23, 1999
Fear of Healing
Issue: NF #93, August 19, 1999
Can Technology Make the Handicapped Whole?
Issue: NF #92, July 21, 1999
The Living and the Dead
Author: Jacques Lusseyran
Issue: NF #92, July 21, 1999
Notes on Health and Medicine
Issue: NF #88, April 16, 1999
Ties That Bind
Issue: NF #72, June 2, 1998
Neural Nets, Stethoscopes, and Patients
Issue: NF #57, October 7, 1997
History of computing
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Technology Isn't What It Used To Be
Issue: NF #56, September 23, 1997
What Lies Beyond Multiculturalism?
Issue: NF #42, March 6, 1997
Paul Edwards on the Meaning of the Computer
Issue: NF #41, February 20, 1997
Of computers, both electronic and social
Issue: NF #26, August 17, 1996
Holistic science
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Shattering the Genome (August 2, 2013)
Issue: NF #189, September 17, 2013
What If We Could See Everything Bearing on Gene Expression?
Issue: NF #188, July 19, 2013
Revolution in the Making? Notes from the Biological Literature
Issue: NF #187, June 20, 2013
Have Biologists Really Overcome Gene-Centered Thinking?
Issue: NF #187, June 20, 2013
What Do Organisms Mean? — A New Website
Issue: NF #186, February 28, 2013
Genes and the Central Fallacy of Evolutionary Theory
Issue: NF #186, February 28, 2013
Supplemental Articles
Issue: NF #186, February 28, 2013
The Poverty of the Instructed Organism
Issue: NF #185, June 21, 2012
How Biologists Lost Sight of the Meaning of Life
Issue: NF #184, May 10, 2012
What Do Organisms Mean?
Issue: NF #182, February 22, 2011
The Unbearable Wholeness of Beings
Issue: NF #181, December 9, 2010
How to Manufacture the Notion of Synthetic Life
Issue: NF #180, March 25, 2010
Getting Over the Code Delusion: Biology's Awakening
Issue: NF #179, February 18, 2010
The Mediating Dance of the Nucleosome
Issue: NF #177, July 9, 2009
The Chromosome in Nuclear Space
Issue: NF #176, May 28, 2009
Twilight of the Double Helix
Issue: NF #175, March 12, 2009
The Embryo's Eloquent Form
Issue: NF #173, May 22, 2008
Can the New Science of Evo-Devo Explain the Form of Organisms?
Issue: NF #171, December 13, 2007
The Language of Nature (Part III)
Issue: NF #169, May 10, 2007
The Language of Nature (Part II)
Issue: NF #168, April 13, 2007
The Language of Nature (Part I)
Issue: NF #167, March 15, 2007
Can We Learn to Think Like a Plant?
Issue: NF #164, July 5, 2005
Recognizing Reality
Issue: NF #162, April 5, 2005
Logic, DNA, and Poetry
Issue: NF #160, January 25, 2005
The Heart's Song
Issue: NF #157, October 21, 2004
Desperate Choices
Issue: NF #156, April 20, 2004
Do Physical Laws Make Things Happen?
Issue: NF #155, March 16, 2004
From Estrogen to Testosterone
Issue: NF #152, December 9, 2003
Biotechnology, Ethics, and the Arc of Life
Issue: NF #152, December 9, 2003
The Vanishing World-Machine
Issue: NF #151, October 30, 2003
Hold a Blossom to the Light
Issue: NF #141, January 28, 2003
On Being Wholehearted
Issue: NF #140, December 26, 2002
Disconnect?
Author: Kevin Kelly and Steve Talbott
Issue: NF #139, December 3, 2002
What Are the Right Questions?
Author: Kevin Kelly and Steve Talbott
Issue: NF #136, September 26, 2002
Are Machines Living Things?
Author: Kevin Kelly and Steve Talbott
Issue: NF #133, June 25, 2002
Sowing Technology
Author: Craig Holdrege and Steve Talbott
Issue: NF #123, October 9, 2001
Death and the Single Cause
Issue: NF #110, August 31, 2000
Golden Genes and World Hunger: Let Them Eat Transgenic Rice?
Issue: NF #108, July 6, 2000
Who Is on the Receiving End of the Genetic Engineer's Power?
Issue: NF #100, January 6, 2000
Technology and the Three-toed Sloth
In article: "Editor's Note"
Issue: NF #97, November 3, 1999
What Does It Mean to Be a Sloth?
Author: Craig Holdrege
Issue: NF #97, November 3, 1999
On Constructivism in Education
Issue: NF #96, October 14, 1999
Fear of Healing
Issue: NF #93, August 19, 1999
Obscure Holism
Author: Joshua Yeidel
Issue: NF #90, May 14, 1999
Notes on Health and Medicine
Issue: NF #88, April 16, 1999
What is The Nature Institute?
Issue: NF #80, November 24, 1998
Finding Wholeness in a Pile of Manure
Issue: NF #79, October 27, 1998
Pharming the Cow
Author: Craig Holdrege
Issue: NF #43, March 20, 1997
Human freedom
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Me and My Double Helixes
Issue: NF #144, April 29, 2003
Complexity, Trust and Terror
Author: Langdon Winner
Issue: NF #137, October 22, 2002
Technology, Alienation, and Freedom
Issue: NF #134, July 18, 2002
Beyond Elite Globalization
Issue: NF #120, April 24, 2001
Technology and Human Responsibility
Issue: NF #115, December 21, 2000
Hot Property in Leedsville: The Mumford House Up for Sale
Author: Langdon Winner
Issue: NF #109, August 3, 2000
Why Do We Celebrate Change While Refusing It?
Issue: NF #104, March 21, 2000
Alien Technologies That Operate on Us
Issue: NF #98, November 23, 1999
There is a Place for Manipulation
Author: Michael Goldhaber
Issue: NF #86, March 11, 1999
Consumer Manipulation Made Easy
Issue: NF #85, February 25, 1999
Can Open Standards Suffocate Us?
Issue: NF #82, January 5, 1999
Does the Computer Eliminate Boring Work?
Issue: NF #77, October 6, 1998
Are We All Petty Bureaucrats?
Issue: NF #74, July 9, 1998
Beyond the Dreams of Avarice (Part 3)
Issue: NF #68, March 31, 1998
Human-computer interface
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Invisible Tools, Emotionally Supportive Pals, Or...?
Issue: NF #159, December 7, 2004
Who Says Computers Are Becoming More Intuitive?
Issue: NF #128, February 12, 2002
Why Television is Habit-forming
Issue: NF #128, February 12, 2002
Are We All Petty Bureaucrats?
Issue: NF #74, July 9, 1998
Toward More User-friendly Refrigerators
Issue: NF #65, February 10, 1998
You Look **Very** Nice Today
Issue: NF #57, October 7, 1997
Does Your Computer Have You in Its Grip?
Issue: NF #53, July 16, 1997
Information
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The Poverty of the Instructed Organism
Issue: NF #185, June 21, 2012
Logic, DNA, and Poetry
Issue: NF #160, January 25, 2005
The CIA: Drowning in Information
Issue: NF #128, February 12, 2002
Please Don't Love Me Only for My Architecture
Issue: NF #84, February 9, 1999
There is No Such Thing as Information
Issue: NF #84, February 9, 1999
The Great Knowledge Implosion
Issue: NF #84, February 9, 1999
Here's to the Information Age: A Toast
Issue: NF #81, December 10, 1998
The Human Genome as a Book of Lies
Issue: NF #81, December 10, 1998
Why Information is Not Enough
Author: Lowell Monke
Issue: NF #79, October 27, 1998
I'll See You in Court
Issue: NF #76, September 15, 1998
Exchanging the World for a Map
Issue: NF #73, June 18, 1998
Next: Pigs That Fly?
Issue: NF #72, June 2, 1998
Information Trumps Reality
Issue: NF #68, March 31, 1998
You Just Missed It
Issue: NF #58, October 22, 1997
Bruce Willis, Information Warrior
Issue: NF #58, October 22, 1997
Does Information Exist?
Issue: NF #58, October 22, 1997
The Vacuity of Information
Issue: NF #54, July 30, 1997
Information reliability
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Information Is Cheap, Conversation Is Dear
In article: "Does the Future Compute?"
Issue: NF #142, February 25, 2003
When Search Engines Are No Longer Independent
Author: Kevin Jones
Issue: NF #74, July 9, 1998
Spreadsheet Errors
Issue: NF #54, July 30, 1997
The Future of Libraries
Issue: NF #51, June 18, 1997
Do Computers Kill People?
Issue: NF #37, January 8, 1997
Web chaos and personal responsibility
Author: Dale Lehman
Issue: NF #7, February 14, 1996
Intelligent agents
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Intelligent Agents and the Economics of Meaninglessness
Issue: NF #53, July 16, 1997
Intelligent Advertising Agents
In article: "Is *Wired* a New Age Journal?"
Issue: NF #34, November 25, 1996
Language
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The Poverty of the Instructed Organism
Issue: NF #185, June 21, 2012
What Do Organisms Mean?
Issue: NF #182, February 22, 2011
The Language of Nature (Part III)
Issue: NF #169, May 10, 2007
The Language of Nature (Part II)
Issue: NF #168, April 13, 2007
The Language of Nature (Part I)
Issue: NF #167, March 15, 2007
More on the Columbia Monkeys
Issue: NF #156, April 20, 2004
Do Physical Laws Make Things Happen?
Issue: NF #155, March 16, 2004
DNA and Voting Machines
Issue: NF #150, October 7, 2003
The Surprising New Language of Mechanism
Issue: NF #149, August 28, 2003
Intelligence and Its Artifacts
Issue: NF #148, August 5, 2003
Please Don't Love Me Only for My Architecture
Issue: NF #84, February 9, 1999
Does NETFUTURE Hold to a Masculine Standard?
Author: Rebecca Lynn Eisenberg
Issue: NF #83, January 19, 1999
Response to Rebecca Lynn Eisenberg
Issue: NF #83, January 19, 1999
Can We Learn to Speak Again?
Issue: NF #80, November 24, 1998
Emoticons
Issue: NF #77, October 6, 1998
Tips for Television Watchers?
Author: Francois VanSteertegem
Issue: NF #77, October 6, 1998
Yes, We Can Sing Through Email
Author: Bryce Muir
Issue: NF #77, October 6, 1998
Would Hemingway Use Emoticons?
Author: John Mihelic
Issue: NF #77, October 6, 1998
Documenting Paralinguistic Practices
Author: Bob Parks
Issue: NF #77, October 6, 1998
Vaclav Havel and Computer Language
Author: Charles Bell
Issue: NF #75, July 30, 1998
Are We All Petty Bureaucrats?
Issue: NF #74, July 9, 1998
How Technology Dumbs Down Language
Issue: NF #73, June 18, 1998
How Gender-neutral Language Changed My Life
Author: Joan Van Tassel
Issue: NF #66, February 24, 1998
Why I Do Not Use `Gender-neutral' Language
Issue: NF #61, December 1 1997
Does Information Exist?
Issue: NF #58, October 22, 1997
The Net's Deceit in Teaching Multiculturalism
Author: Lowell Monke
Issue: NF #49, May 22, 1997
The Placeless, Neighborless Realm
Author: Tom Jay
Issue: NF #26, August 17, 1996
Living life faster
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Life as an Emergency
Issue: NF #131, April 30, 2002
How Doing Faster Means Doing Less
Issue: NF #131, April 30, 2002
Comments from Readers
Issue: NF #128, February 12, 2002
How Can We Hold the Balance?
Issue: NF #126, December 18, 2001
How to Prepare for a Frenetic World
Author: Peter Denning
Issue: NF #122, September 18, 2001
Quit Bashing the Media Lab
Author: Amy Bruckman
Issue: NF #122, September 18, 2001
Reply to Amy Bruckman
Author: Langdon Winner
Issue: NF #122, September 18, 2001
Whatever Happened to the Electronic Cottage?
Author: Langdon Winner
Issue: NF #121, July 27, 2001
On Forgetting to Wear Boots
Issue: NF #117, February 1, 2001
Is Growing Pessimism about the Internet a Cause for Optimism?
Issue: NF #113, October 31, 2000
The Voluntary Complexity Movement
Author: Langdon Winner
Issue: NF #94, September 14, 1999
Finding Ourselves in Silence
Issue: NF #85, February 25, 1999
The Blessings of a Hurricane
Issue: NF #85, February 25, 1999
Multitasking, or Attention Deficit Disorder?
Author: John Thienes
Issue: NF #76, September 15, 1998
On the Importance of Our Powers of Attention
Author: Gavin Ferriby
Issue: NF #76, September 15, 1998
Multitasking Ourselves to Death
Issue: NF #75, July 30, 1998
Move Along, Now!
Issue: NF #69, April 14, 1998
First It Was Quality Time...
Issue: NF #60, November 18, 1997
The Business of Pandering
Issue: NF #60, November 18, 1997
Accelerated Life, Computers, and the Environment
Issue: NF #54, July 30, 1997
The Net As Womb
Issue: NF #53, July 16, 1997
More on Technological Aimlessness
Issue: NF #46, April 18, 1997
Technological Aimlessness
Issue: NF #45, April 9, 1997
`Saving' time, money, and physical resources
Author: Jeff Wright
Issue: NF #18, April 30, 1996
Speeding toward meaninglessness
Issue: NF #17, April 25, 1996
Mechanistic and reductionist science
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Genes and the Central Fallacy of Evolutionary Theory
Issue: NF #186, February 28, 2013
The Poverty of the Instructed Organism
Issue: NF #185, June 21, 2012
How Biologists Lost Sight of the Meaning of Life
Issue: NF #184, May 10, 2012
What Do Organisms Mean?
Issue: NF #182, February 22, 2011
The Unbearable Wholeness of Beings
Issue: NF #181, December 9, 2010
How to Manufacture the Notion of Synthetic Life
Issue: NF #180, March 25, 2010
Can the New Science of Evo-Devo Explain the Form of Organisms?
Issue: NF #171, December 13, 2007
Ghosts in the Evolutionary Machinery
Issue: NF #170, July 19, 2007
The Language of Nature (Part III)
Issue: NF #169, May 10, 2007
The Language of Nature (Part II)
Issue: NF #168, April 13, 2007
The Language of Nature (Part I)
Issue: NF #167, March 15, 2007
Can We Learn to Think Like a Plant?
Issue: NF #164, July 5, 2005
Practical Reductionism
Issue: NF #163, May 13, 2005
Recognizing Reality
Issue: NF #162, April 5, 2005
The Reduction Complex
Issue: NF #158, November 9, 2004
Do Physical Laws Make Things Happen?
Issue: NF #155, March 16, 2004
Do Plants Think?
Issue: NF #154, February 12, 2004
The Limits of Predictability
Issue: NF #153, January 6, 2004
The Vanishing World-Machine
Issue: NF #151, October 30, 2003
DNA and Voting Machines
Issue: NF #150, October 7, 2003
The Surprising New Language of Mechanism
Issue: NF #149, August 28, 2003
When the Mind Dogmatizes about Itself
Issue: NF #148, August 5, 2003
Notes on Genetic Engineering
Issue: NF #147, July 15, 2003
Flesh and Machines: The Mere Assertions of Rodney Brooks
Issue: NF #146, June 24, 2003
Disconnect?
Author: Kevin Kelly and Steve Talbott
Issue: NF #139, December 3, 2002
What Are the Right Questions?
Author: Kevin Kelly and Steve Talbott
Issue: NF #136, September 26, 2002
Are Machines Living Things?
Author: Kevin Kelly and Steve Talbott
Issue: NF #133, June 25, 2002
Media issues
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Tales of Wholeness
Issue: NF #156, April 20, 2004
Who Needs Media Regulation?
Issue: NF #149, August 28, 2003
Does Television Cause Violent Behavior? Wrong Question.
Issue: NF #134, July 18, 2002
Why Television is Habit-forming
Issue: NF #128, February 12, 2002
Readers Strike Back
Issue: NF #124, October 30, 2001
Terror on Film
Issue: NF #122, September 18, 2001
The Reality of Appearances
Issue: NF #119, March 27, 2001
Confronting the Culture of Disrespect
Author: Langdon Winner
Issue: NF #115, December 21, 2000
Bhutan and Fiji: The Elusive Influences of Television
Issue: NF #93, August 19, 1999
The Columbine Shootings
Issue: NF #93, August 19, 1999
The Real Millennium Bug
Author: Langdon Winner
Issue: NF #76, September 15, 1998
From Couch Potato to Desk Potahto
Issue: NF #59, November 4, 1997
The Rhetoric of the Electrical Sublime
Issue: NF #47, April 30, 1997
This Phone Call Is Brought to You by Macdonalds
Issue: NF #43, March 20, 1997
Radio Cyberdays
Issue: NF #37, January 8, 1997
Classroom Revolutions
Issue: NF #36, December 19, 1996
Will advertising keep the Net free?
Issue: NF #24, July 23, 1996
Television and the Computer
In article: "Forgetting ourselves in the age of automatons"
Issue: NF #23, July 5, 1996
Linking minds and machines
Issue: NF #16, April 22, 1996
Miscellaneous
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High-Minded Machines
Issue: NF #161, March 9, 2005
Monkeys and Computer Hygiene
Issue: NF #145, May 20, 2003
Telephone Booths
Issue: NF #143, April 1, 2003
Dangerous Baby Walkers, Dangerous Software?
Issue: NF #96, October 14, 1999
Grounds for Optimism
Issue: NF #91, June 23, 1999
Wholeness and a Society without Gender
Author: Karla Tonella
Issue: NF #84, February 9, 1999
Do They Have Television on Mars?
Issue: NF #79, October 27, 1998
Brief Notes
Issue: NF #73, June 18, 1998
Popular Superstition and Scientific Fears
Issue: NF #71, May 14, 1998
Langdon Winner Introduces His New Column
Issue: NF #69, April 14, 1998
Choose Your Battlefield
Issue: NF #47, April 30, 1997
How NETFUTURE Happens
Issue: NF #47, April 30, 1997
Escape from Email Hell
Issue: NF #45, April 9, 1997
Death of a gyppo
Author: Robert Leo Heilman
Issue: NF #24, July 23, 1996
An antidote to computer-thinking
Author: Valdemar W. Setzer
Issue: NF #22, June 20, 1996
Nanotechnology
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Practical Reductionism
Issue: NF #163, May 13, 2005
Science Policy and the Push for Nanotechnology
Author: Langdon Winner
Issue: NF #145, May 20, 2003
Orality and literacy
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Image Ascendent, or Descendent?
Issue: NF #109, August 3, 2000
The Oral Foundations of Learning
Author: David Abram
Issue: NF #96, October 14, 1999
Surfing Ancient, Homeric Fields
Issue: NF #44, April 2, 1997
Personal relationships
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More on Email
Issue: NF #124, October 30, 2001
Still Disconnecting
Issue: NF #122, September 18, 2001
How to Prepare for a Frenetic World
Author: Peter Denning
Issue: NF #122, September 18, 2001
Quit Bashing the Media Lab
Author: Amy Bruckman
Issue: NF #122, September 18, 2001
Reply to Amy Bruckman
Author: Langdon Winner
Issue: NF #122, September 18, 2001
Why I Have Disconnected from Email
Issue: NF #121, July 27, 2001
Whatever Happened to the Electronic Cottage?
Author: Langdon Winner
Issue: NF #121, July 27, 2001
On Forgetting to Wear Boots
Issue: NF #117, February 1, 2001
Confronting the Culture of Disrespect
Author: Langdon Winner
Issue: NF #115, December 21, 2000
The Many Voices of Destiny
Issue: NF #102, February 16, 2000
On Giving a Christmas Gift to My Niece
Author: Wendell Piez
Issue: NF #81, December 10, 1998
Privacy and Prejudice
Issue: NF #77, October 6, 1998
Trust Me
Issue: NF #66, February 24, 1998
Imprisoning Criminals in Software
Issue: NF #35, December 5, 1996
Privacy in an age of data (part 2)
Issue: NF #29, October 17, 1996
Prejudice
In article: "Forgetting ourselves in the age of automatons"
Issue: NF #23, July 5, 1996
The Internet As Terminator
Issue: NF #3, January 4, 1996
The Strong Pull of MUDs
In article: "The Phenomenology of Computing -- Two Tales from the Net"
Issue: NF #1, December 14, 1995
Physiology and electronic media
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Why Television is Habit-forming
Issue: NF #128, February 12, 2002
Amusing Ourselves into a Fit
Issue: NF #63, January 6, 1998
Polarity
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Editor's Note
Issue: NF #84, February 9, 1999
Want to Globalize? Then Localize!
Issue: NF #84, February 9, 1999
Please Don't Love Me Only for My Architecture
Issue: NF #84, February 9, 1999
Freeman Dyson on the Survival of Craftsmanship
Issue: NF #84, February 9, 1999
Brief Notes on Polarity
Issue: NF #84, February 9, 1999
There is No Such Thing as Information
Issue: NF #84, February 9, 1999
The Great Knowledge Implosion
Issue: NF #84, February 9, 1999
Politics and social action
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Who Needs Media Regulation?
Issue: NF #149, August 28, 2003
Science Policy and the Push for Nanotechnology
Author: Langdon Winner
Issue: NF #145, May 20, 2003
Are Corporations to Blame?
Issue: NF #143, April 1, 2003
Information Is Cheap, Conversation Is Dear
In article: "Does the Future Compute?"
Issue: NF #142, February 25, 2003
Complexity, Trust and Terror
Author: Langdon Winner
Issue: NF #137, October 22, 2002
Should Genetically Modified Foods Be Labeled?
Author: Craig Holdrege
Issue: NF #135, August 29, 2002
Evil
Issue: NF #129, March 12, 2002
Our Culture's Crisis of Transition
In article: "Books Received"
Issue: NF #128, February 12, 2002
Beyond Elite Globalization
Issue: NF #120, April 24, 2001
Bill Gates' New Concerns
Issue: NF #115, December 21, 2000
An Education That Transcends Information
Author: Carol Cole
Issue: NF #107, June 1, 2000
Will the Internet Be Bad for Democracy?
Author: Eli M. Noam
Issue: NF #91, June 23, 1999
Political Change
In article: "How Technology Co-opted the Good (Part 2)"
Issue: NF #65, February 10, 1998
How about a Moratorium on Internet Surveys?
Issue: NF #63, January 6, 1998
The Digital Citizen: More Nonsense from *Wired*
Issue: NF #61, December 1 1997
Computer-prompted Senate?
Issue: NF #59, November 4, 1997
Sue the Bastards
Issue: NF #46, April 18, 1997
How Computers Can Help You Win Over Your Senator
Issue: NF #46, April 18, 1997
What Lies Beyond Multiculturalism?
Issue: NF #42, March 6, 1997
Paul Edwards on the Meaning of the Computer
Issue: NF #41, February 20, 1997
Chinese Cookies
Issue: NF #40, February 5, 1997
A quick guide to the politics of cyberspace, pt. 5
Author: Richard Sclove
Issue: NF #15, April 11, 1996
A quick guide to the politics of cyberspace, pt. 4
Author: Richard Sclove
Issue: NF #10, March 19, 1996
Communes, the Net, and self-governance
Issue: NF #9, March 11, 1996
A quick guide to the politics of cyberspace, pt. 3
Author: Richard Sclove
Issue: NF #8, February 26, 1996
A quick guide to the politics of cyberspace, pt. 2
Author: Richard Sclove
Issue: NF #7, February 14, 1996
A quick guide to the politics of cyberspace
Author: Richard Sclove
Issue: NF #6, February 6, 1996
The Great Crusade Against Censorship
Issue: NF #2, December 21, 1995
Privacy and security
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No Place to Hide
In article: "Does the Future Compute?"
Issue: NF #142, February 25, 2003
Complexity, Trust and Terror
Author: Langdon Winner
Issue: NF #137, October 22, 2002
High Noon at the DB Corral
Issue: NF #132, May 21, 2002
Technology and Human Responsibility
Issue: NF #115, December 21, 2000
Don't Be Hysterical about Privacy
Author: Kevin Kelly
Issue: NF #78, October 15, 1998
Privacy and Prejudice
Issue: NF #77, October 6, 1998
Cryptography Is Fuel on the Fire, Not a Solution
Author: Don Davis
Issue: NF #67, March 12, 1998
Breaking-in Is Not Hard to Do
Issue: NF #66, February 24, 1998
Trust Me
Issue: NF #66, February 24, 1998
If Big Brother Has Been Dismembered, Are We Safe?
Issue: NF #61, December 1 1997
Big Brother in the Bathroom?
Issue: NF #55, September 9, 1997
The New Money: Anonymous But Countable
Issue: NF #42, March 6, 1997
Dorothy Denning on Cryptography Export Controls
Issue: NF #39, January 29, 1997
Insecure Little Old Ladies
Issue: NF #38, January 16, 1997
Arguing about privacy
Author: Phil Agre
Issue: NF #32, November 10, 1996
Response to Agre
Issue: NF #32, November 10, 1996
Privacy in an age of data (part 3)
Issue: NF #30, October 24, 1996
Privacy in an age of data (part 2)
Issue: NF #29, October 17, 1996
Privacy in an age of data
Issue: NF #28, September 25, 1996
Productivity and computers
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Who Says Computers Are Becoming More Intuitive?
Issue: NF #128, February 12, 2002
The Internet and Competition
Issue: NF #75, July 30, 1998
Is the Productive Computer Still AWOL?
Issue: NF #55, September 9, 1997
Postscript to `The Ultimate Worker'
Issue: NF #51, June 18, 1997
Financial Fictions: The View from a Bank
Author: David L. Goldsteen
Issue: NF #51, June 18, 1997
The Ultimate Worker
Issue: NF #50, June 4, 1997
Still Looking for the Productive Computer
Issue: NF #45, April 9, 1997
Looking up to Government
Issue: NF #40, February 5, 1997
Things That Bite Back: Tenner on Productivity
Issue: NF #37, January 8, 1997
The illusion of online efficiency
Issue: NF #20, June 4, 1996
High-tech and productivity
Issue: NF #19, May 16, 1996
Psychology, identity, and the Net
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The Deceiving Virtues of Technology
Issue: NF #125, November 15, 2001
Why Johnny is a Cynic
Issue: NF #86, March 11, 1999
Trust Me: I'm Vulnerable
Issue: NF #83, January 19, 1999
Multitasking, or Attention Deficit Disorder?
Author: John Thienes
Issue: NF #76, September 15, 1998
On the Importance of Our Powers of Attention
Author: Gavin Ferriby
Issue: NF #76, September 15, 1998
Multitasking Ourselves to Death
Issue: NF #75, July 30, 1998
Marilyn Monroe and Our Virtuality
Author: Bryce Muir
Issue: NF #75, July 30, 1998
Technology as Infantilism
Issue: NF #67, March 12, 1998
How Do Justice Department Prosecutors Differ from Lara Croft?
Issue: NF #65, February 10, 1998
You Look **Very** Nice Today
Issue: NF #57, October 7, 1997
Are Our Brains Changing?
Issue: NF #54, July 30, 1997
The Market for Human Suffering
Author: Mark Grundy
Issue: NF #45, April 9, 1997
Surfing Ancient, Homeric Fields
Issue: NF #44, April 2, 1997
What Turkle misses
Author: Sue Barnes
Issue: NF #14, April 2, 1996
Can the `End of Education' Be `Life on the Screen'?
Author: Lowell Monke
Issue: NF #9, March 11, 1996
The Internet As Terminator
Issue: NF #3, January 4, 1996
Escaping the Computer's Pull through Ironic Immersion
In article: "The Phenomenology of Computing -- Two Tales from the Net"
Issue: NF #1, December 14, 1995
The Strong Pull of MUDs
In article: "The Phenomenology of Computing -- Two Tales from the Net"
Issue: NF #1, December 14, 1995
Quantitative and statistical side of computer
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CyberTrackers: Bushmen and Information Technology
Issue: NF #154, February 12, 2004
Quantity and statistics
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Editor's Note
Issue: NF #83, January 19, 1999
Don't Malign Complexity
Author: Alex Rice
Issue: NF #75, July 30, 1998
Complex, Emergent, Self-organizing Nonsense
Issue: NF #74, July 9, 1998
Information Trumps Reality
Issue: NF #68, March 31, 1998
Beyond the Dreams of Avarice (Part 3)
Issue: NF #68, March 31, 1998
Machines Are Extensions of Us--So Stand Clear!
Issue: NF #66, February 24, 1998
Neural Nets, Stethoscopes, and Patients
Issue: NF #57, October 7, 1997
The Vacuity of Information
Issue: NF #54, July 30, 1997
Imprisoning Criminals in Software
Issue: NF #35, December 5, 1996
Scattered mind
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Where Does the User End and PowerPoint Begin?
Issue: NF #153, January 6, 2004
How Can We Hold the Balance?
Issue: NF #126, December 18, 2001
The ATM as Commercial Television
Issue: NF #88, April 16, 1999
Cluttering Our Lives for Profit
Issue: NF #86, March 11, 1999
Finding Ourselves in Silence
Issue: NF #85, February 25, 1999
The Blessings of a Hurricane
Issue: NF #85, February 25, 1999
Multitasking, or Attention Deficit Disorder?
Author: John Thienes
Issue: NF #76, September 15, 1998
On the Importance of Our Powers of Attention
Author: Gavin Ferriby
Issue: NF #76, September 15, 1998
Multitasking Ourselves to Death
Issue: NF #75, July 30, 1998
What Price for Our Selves?
Issue: NF #47, April 30, 1997
This Phone Call Is Brought to You by Macdonalds
Issue: NF #43, March 20, 1997
Will advertising keep the Net free?
Issue: NF #24, July 23, 1996
Sex
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Sex, the Internet, and Educational Reform
Issue: NF #132, May 21, 2002
Sexuality and Information
In article: "Does Information Exist?"
Issue: NF #58, October 22, 1997
Censorship, Kids, and the ACLU
Issue: NF #46, April 18, 1997
Dreams of a Global Village
Issue: NF #37, January 8, 1997
Indiscretions
Author: Frank Willison
Issue: NF #36, December 19, 1996
Sex on the Internet
Issue: NF #35, December 5, 1996
Standards and open systems
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Education by Acronym
Issue: NF #104, March 21, 2000
Can Open Standards Suffocate Us?
Issue: NF #82, January 5, 1999
Who's Killing Higher Education? (Or is It Suicide?)
Issue: NF #78, October 15, 1998
Locking Ourselves in to Standards
In article: "Editor's note"
Issue: NF #32, November 10, 1996
Technological efficiency
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Perfecting the Dance, Forgetting the Dancer
Issue: NF #150, October 7, 2003
The Internet: Reflections on Our Present Discontents
Issue: NF #150, October 7, 2003
Raising Hogs Unimaginatively
Issue: NF #147, July 15, 2003
Who Says Computers Are Becoming More Intuitive?
Issue: NF #128, February 12, 2002
An Entomologist's Killing Fields
Issue: NF #124, October 30, 2001
Technology, Animals, and People
Issue: NF #114, November 30, 2000
The Pigs of Iowa
Author: Lowell Monke
Issue: NF #114, November 30, 2000
Who's Killing Higher Education? (Or is It Suicide?)
Issue: NF #78, October 15, 1998
Missing the Mark on Asimov
Author: Rob Haas
Issue: NF #70, April 30, 1998
When Work Disappears
Issue: NF #69, April 14, 1998
Chains of Logic
Issue: NF #64, January 20, 1998
Saying Nothing As Fast As Possible
Issue: NF #63, January 6, 1998
The Global Economic Crunch: Is More Efficiency What We Need?
Issue: NF #62, December 16 1997
How Computers Can Help You Win Over Your Senator
Issue: NF #46, April 18, 1997
The New Money: Anonymous But Countable
Issue: NF #42, March 6, 1997
Things That Bite Back: Tenner on Productivity
Issue: NF #37, January 8, 1997
The illusion of online efficiency
Issue: NF #20, June 4, 1996
Web chaos and personal responsibility
Author: Dale Lehman
Issue: NF #7, February 14, 1996
The Fundamental Deceit of Technology
Issue: NF #1, December 14, 1995
Technological inevitability
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Does the Future Compute?
Issue: NF #142, February 25, 2003
The Trouble with Ubiquitous Technology Pushers (Part 3)
Issue: NF #112, October 5, 2000
Hot Property in Leedsville: The Mumford House Up for Sale
Author: Langdon Winner
Issue: NF #109, August 3, 2000
Automobiles: On the Road to Nowhere
Issue: NF #105, April 18, 2000
Why Do We Celebrate Change While Refusing It?
Issue: NF #104, March 21, 2000
Alien Technologies That Operate on Us
Issue: NF #98, November 23, 1999
What Makes a Technology Inevitable?
Issue: NF #95, September 23, 1999
The Fascination with Ubiquitous Control
Issue: NF #95, September 23, 1999
Toward Appropriate Behavior by Objects
Author: Alan Wexelblat
Issue: NF #95, September 23, 1999
Response to Alan Wexelblat
Author: Langdon Winner
Issue: NF #95, September 23, 1999
Missing the `Old' Don Norman
Author: Steve Baumgarten
Issue: NF #95, September 23, 1999
The Voluntary Complexity Movement
Author: Langdon Winner
Issue: NF #94, September 14, 1999
Technological neutrality
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Where We Have Come To (Part 1)
Issue: NF #165, October 25, 2005
Flights of Optimism
Issue: NF #152, December 9, 2003
Technology Does Not Make Societies More Vulnerable
Author: Michael Goldhaber
Issue: NF #138, November 7, 2002
Response to Goldhaber
Author: Langdon Winner
Issue: NF #138, November 7, 2002
Complexity, Trust and Terror
Author: Langdon Winner
Issue: NF #137, October 22, 2002
Can Open Standards Suffocate Us?
Issue: NF #82, January 5, 1999
Technological Zealotry: Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
Issue: NF #73, June 18, 1998
Ties That Bind
Issue: NF #72, June 2, 1998
Are Unintended Consequences Really Unintended?
Issue: NF #71, May 14, 1998
El Nino and Technological Determinism
Issue: NF #67, March 12, 1998
Machines Are Extensions of Us--So Stand Clear!
Issue: NF #66, February 24, 1998
Is Technological Improvement What We Want? (Part 3)
Issue: NF #48, May 14, 1997
Is Technological Improvement What We Want? (Part 2)
Issue: NF #40, February 5, 1997
Is Technological Improvement What We Want?
Issue: NF #38, January 16, 1997
Do Computers Kill People?
Issue: NF #37, January 8, 1997
Of computers, both electronic and social
Issue: NF #26, August 17, 1996
The Future of Freedom
Issue: NF #22, June 20, 1996
The Character of Technology
In article: "Computers at School: The Web and the Plow"
Author: Lowell Monke
Issue: NF #19, May 16, 1996
Stirrups and social change
Author: Susan B. Barnes
Issue: NF #13, March 28, 1996
Every tool is an obstacle
Issue: NF #12, March 26, 1996
In (partial) defense of Peter Quince
Issue: NF #9, March 11, 1996
Technological optimism
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Flights of Optimism
Issue: NF #152, December 9, 2003
The Evolution of Progress
Issue: NF #136, September 26, 2002
From Baby Walkers to High Tech: The Anti-developmental Stance
Issue: NF #135, August 29, 2002
What Are Technology's Gifts?
Author: Kevin Kelly and Steve Talbott
Issue: NF #130, April 2, 2002
Technology and the Larger Picture
Issue: NF #124, October 30, 2001
Double-edged Technologies
Issue: NF #124, October 30, 2001
Technology and Human Responsibility
Issue: NF #115, December 21, 2000
The Nasdaq as Santa Claus?
Issue: NF #114, November 30, 2000
Is Growing Pessimism about the Internet a Cause for Optimism?
Issue: NF #113, October 31, 2000
Of Vision Quests, Gender, and Boredom
Issue: NF #109, August 3, 2000
Bill Joy's Warning from on High
Issue: NF #104, March 21, 2000
On the New Eugenics
Issue: NF #102, February 16, 2000
The Negativism of NETFUTURE
Issue: NF #91, June 23, 1999
When Faith in Computers is Boundless
Issue: NF #87, March 30, 1999
Does the Computer Eliminate Boring Work?
Issue: NF #77, October 6, 1998
The Internet and Competition
Issue: NF #75, July 30, 1998
Beyond The Year 2000: Taking the Long View
Author: Jeff Wright
Issue: NF #70, April 30, 1998
Missing the Mark on Asimov
Author: Rob Haas
Issue: NF #70, April 30, 1998
When Work Disappears
Issue: NF #69, April 14, 1998
Disfigured Hope: Arthur Zajonc on Technology's Promise
Issue: NF #62, December 16 1997
From Couch Potato to Desk Potahto
Issue: NF #59, November 4, 1997
Does Technology Set Us Free?
Issue: NF #59, November 4, 1997
Methuselah on Wheels
Issue: NF #58, October 22, 1997
Does Technology Make Us Blind?
Issue: NF #58, October 22, 1997
Toward the Great Singularity (Part 3)
Issue: NF #53, July 16, 1997
Toward the Great Singularity (Part 1)
Issue: NF #51, June 18, 1997
Wow! (again)
Issue: NF #48, May 14, 1997
Waiting for the Revolution
Issue: NF #47, April 30, 1997
The Rhetoric of the Electrical Sublime
Issue: NF #47, April 30, 1997
Seeking Balance
Issue: NF #42, March 6, 1997
The End of Programming?
Issue: NF #41, February 20, 1997
From Universal Access To Universal Paranoia
Issue: NF #39, January 29, 1997
Is Technological Improvement What We Want?
Issue: NF #38, January 16, 1997
The Mystical Properties of Zero
Issue: NF #37, January 8, 1997
Radio Cyberdays
Issue: NF #37, January 8, 1997
Classroom Revolutions
Issue: NF #36, December 19, 1996
The Net and Perdition
Issue: NF #36, December 19, 1996
Gildered Dreams
Issue: NF #36, December 19, 1996
The Fundamental Deceit of Technology
Issue: NF #1, December 14, 1995
Ubiquitous computing
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The Trouble with Ubiquitous Technology Pushers (Part 3)
Issue: NF #112, October 5, 2000
The Trouble with Ubiquitous Technology Pushers (Part 2)
Issue: NF #101, January 27, 2000
Criticize Out of Love, Not Resentment
Author: Kevin Kelly
Issue: NF #101, January 27, 2000
Toward a More Balanced View of the Media Lab
Author: Amy Bruckman
Issue: NF #101, January 27, 2000
Too Much Complaining
Author: Bob Gaughan
Issue: NF #101, January 27, 2000
An Overdue, Grace-filled Literacy
Author: Tom Mahon
Issue: NF #101, January 27, 2000
Of Gadgets and Real Needs
Issue: NF #100, January 6, 2000
The Trouble with Ubiquitous Technology Pushers (Part 1)
Issue: NF #100, January 6, 2000
What a Computer Can and Cannot Supply
Author: Shyam Oberoi
Issue: NF #100, January 6, 2000
Computing Should Relate to Life
Author: Gail Campana
Issue: NF #100, January 6, 2000
Cheap Shots at Ubiquitous Computing
Author: Alan Wexelblat
Issue: NF #98, November 23, 1999
We'll Get What We Choose (and I'll Choose Convenience)
Author: Thomas Leavitt
Issue: NF #98, November 23, 1999
Borgmann on the Wonders of the Information Age
Issue: NF #96, October 14, 1999
When Living Becomes an Inconvenience
Author: Phil Walsh
Issue: NF #96, October 14, 1999
On Appropriate Behavior for Machines
Author: Victor Grey
Issue: NF #96, October 14, 1999
The Caller ID Arms Race
Author: Steve Baumgarten
Issue: NF #96, October 14, 1999
If Computers Behaved Like Toilets
Author: David Miller
Issue: NF #96, October 14, 1999
The Fascination with Ubiquitous Control
Issue: NF #95, September 23, 1999
Toward Appropriate Behavior by Objects
Author: Alan Wexelblat
Issue: NF #95, September 23, 1999
Response to Alan Wexelblat
Author: Langdon Winner
Issue: NF #95, September 23, 1999
The Voluntary Complexity Movement
Author: Langdon Winner
Issue: NF #94, September 14, 1999
Virtual Community
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The Net and Perdition
Issue: NF #36, December 19, 1996
Virtual reality
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On Giving Rats a Virtual Life
Issue: NF #132, May 21, 2002
Readers Strike Back
Issue: NF #124, October 30, 2001
Terror on Film
Issue: NF #122, September 18, 2001
The Reality of Appearances
Issue: NF #119, March 27, 2001
Mark Pesce's Earth Toy
Issue: NF #107, June 1, 2000
Virtuality and the Atomization of Experience
Issue: NF #87, March 30, 1999
Finding Ourselves in Silence
Issue: NF #85, February 25, 1999
Breaking through to Reality
Issue: NF #81, December 10, 1998
Year 2000 problem
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The Real Millennium Bug
Author: Langdon Winner
Issue: NF #76, September 15, 1998
Beyond The Year 2000: Taking the Long View
Author: Jeff Wright
Issue: NF #70, April 30, 1998
How Computers May Promote IRS Reform
Issue: NF #69, April 14, 1998
Chains of Logic
Issue: NF #64, January 20, 1998
Year 2000 Apocalypse?
Issue: NF #44, April 2, 1997
Allowing the World to Change
Issue: NF #44, April 2, 1997
The Mystical Properties of Zero
Issue: NF #37, January 8, 1997
Software Meltdown in the Year 2000?
Issue: NF #35, December 5, 1996
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