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Agre, Phil
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Arguing about privacy
Privacy is not secrecy
Alexander, Jeffrey
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Physical versus `intellectual' efficiency
Bottlenecks can serve positive purposes
Barnes, Sue
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Stirrups and social change
Joining man and steed into a fighting organism
What Turkle misses
Virtual lives are not separate from real lives
Baum, Jiri
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Arthur C. Clarke's Palador and Net consciousness
`An intellect more powerful than any other in the Universe'
We need to exercise the body as well as the mind
Dancing may be the answer
Of dancing, painting, gardening
Bauwens, Michel
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Luciferian revolt or Electric Gaia?
How optimists and pessimists look at the Net
Another concurrence about LCD displays
Beiter, David
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On clearing up computer displays
Computer text can be easier reading than paper
Bell, Don
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They used to kill bison
20th-century technology has not made us less sensitive
Ben-Avraham, Joel
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Bigotry and openness on the Net
The lines between "us" and "them" get blurred
Benedikt, Claire
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What separates a Postman from a Negroponte?
Brooks, Candi
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The ultimate pen pal club
Linguistic excursions on the Net
Caprariis, Pascal de
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Economics, not technology, is the problem
That phone answering system again
Carlson, Dick
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Kill the droids. Up with the machines
Human operators can be the biggest pain
Cox, Henry G.
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Problems with Nonstandardized Phone Answering Systems
This user needs a cheat sheet
Davidson, Clyde
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Spirituality and the Net
Information is not the basis of our fundamental inner choices
Davis, Dave
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A further note about the stirrup
Davis, Don
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Luddites and technicians keep society in balance
Both are necessary
DeGroff, Leslie
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The enemies of the profound word
But time will resolve much of the problem of quality
Net debates and true believers
Check out Eric Hoffer's books
Eads, P.
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Commercial databases and your phone number
The unapproachability of Yahoo
Faller, Peter
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The Net does not limit our options
Neither is the computer a threat
Fischbein, Mike
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Only worthwhile products of technology survive
Technology does not constrain our options, but increases them
Advertising and the pressure to upgrade
The relation between computers and bell-bottoms
Hardware vs. software upgrades: different issues
We don't know how to make reliable software
Computers are used more carelessly than typewriters
Some practical advice
Efficiency vs. effectiveness of the Net
There's also the problem of error
Frankonis, Christopher
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The limits of adaptation and mastery
How much responsibility do we bear for the technological future?
The Net does not cause psychic fragmentation
Although it may amplify it
Frankonis, Christopher D.
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Don't try to control technology; adapt
Avoiding cultural chauvinism
Griffin, Paul
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Feeling stupid
The web as a space of disconnection and projection
Grundy, Mark
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Prejudice on the Internet
Freedom and a whiff of danger
Communications technology and the magic of relationship
Grandmother can speak through any medium
Gulliford, Jeff
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Of LCD displays and HardRAM
They're easier on eyes and psyche
Hakala, David
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A child's world
This child knows his own priorities
Harbeck, Reg
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The importance of context for emergent Net patterns
Laissez faire, or a conscientious, persistent vigilance?
Heilman, Robert Leo
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Death of a gyppo
Logging as an art
Henon, Alain
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Discussions here have been intellectually vacuous
This leads to a danger of political extremism
Hinrichs, Randy
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The web and the hunger for higher consciousness
We don't clearly understand what the web is doing
Howard, Chris
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Sour grapes from Mr. Ciolek
The web may compare favorably to TV and newspapers
There is no planned obsolescence of software
Is the editor a conspiracy theorist?
Jay, Tom
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The Placeless, Neighborless Realm
Does English have a future?
Jessup, Kevin
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Going with the flow
From Luddite to Extropian
Johnson, Doug
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The complexities of technological determination
We don't control everything and we don't control nothing
Jones, Kevin
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Damn the computers
A long-time user's lament
We relate to technology as to an archetype
A technological shaman within the male psyche?
CRTs, eye strain, and meditation states
Jerry Mander had it right when talking about television
Jost, Mark
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Flying or falling through cyberspace?
By what standard do we judge online realities?
Jr., J. David Stanton,
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Homogenizing global society
How long can that pen pal club offer a taste of different cultures?
Kerwan, Michael
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The joys of crossing out text
Kudryashev, Michael
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The Internet and the Soviet collapse
Soap operas would have been more effective
Kulikowski, Stan
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Metaphors about technology are of little use
Too much data is better than data selected by others
Kushmerick, Nicholas
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Is your CRT or your environment the problem?
Flat-panel displays are often used in relaxing places
Legeros, Michael
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Do subscriber numbers matter?
A brief conversation
Lehman, Dale
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Our lives have become a series of addictions
Computers are not the only dangerous tools
Web chaos and personal responsibility
The real problem is dehumanization
Lopatin, Scott
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I feel fine
The migration to a higher self has started
Marks, Peter
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CRT or noise?
McCormick, Brad
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Forgetting ourselves has a long history
It is better viewed as a need for self-discovery
McElhearn, Kirk
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I, too, am starting to worry
A vision of neo-luddites in caves
Are the spiders crawling down your back?
Alta Vista shivers
Meacham, Bill
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Are LCD displays kinder to the soul?
CRTs leave me frazzled and flat
Noxious advertising
How do we escape the sickness?
Mendler, Sebastian
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talk.netfuture?
Midboe, Matt
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Search engines bring our skeletons out of the closet
And it's a good thing: no more vain pretense
Monke, Lowell
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Can the `End of Education' Be `Life on the Screen'?
Review of books by Turkle and Postman
Computers at school: the web and the plow
Reckoning with the costs of technology
Technology and education: clashing philosophies
We need to get down to first principles
Morris, John S.
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Prejudice and the Net
What is not tested is not remedied
Mukherjee, Siddhartha
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It's simple Kevin: don't upgrade
Successful employee resistance has occurred
Parker, Gandalf
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Ballad of the spider and the fly
Now what was I looking for?
Petraitis, David
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There is no natural world left
The world is as we make it
Porter, Don
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Higher consciousness or abdication of responsibility?
Mystical hopes are without foundation
Prince, Frank
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The computer as a fence
Good fences make good neighbors
Quince, Peter
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A nineteenth-century man confronts the computer
`I glorify silence in front of my low-tech coal fire'
Quirk, Kent
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Mr. Quince, change happens
The soul is *in* the machine
Ray, Erik
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The reckless refreshment of writing on a notepad
Will a typewriter be next?
Richardson, Robert
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Basement Wiring: More Metaphors for the Infobahn
An unsettling vision from downstairs
Schmidt, Bob
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The Internet is for adults
Leave children out of it
Sclove, Richard
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A quick guide to the politics of cyberspace
What are the cyberlibertarians missing?
A quick guide to the politics of cyberspace, pt. 2
The cybernetic Wal-Mart effect and other concerns
A quick guide to the politics of cyberspace, pt. 3
The Net and democracy
A quick guide to the politics of cyberspace, pt. 4
Of activism and individual responsibility
A quick guide to the politics of cyberspace, pt. 5
An activist's hope for the future
Setzer, Val
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Dancing does not balance our thinking
A live thinking is required
Setzer, Valdemar W.
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An antidote to computer-thinking
Cultivate the arts
Shan, Chung-Chieh
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Computer does not necessarily impoverish reality
Or else painting, too, alienates us from reality
Shapira, Sean
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Peter Quince's contradiction
The dangers of absolutism
Slade, Rob
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Dealing reasonably with cyberhate
How important are the kooks?
Smith, Michael
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The computer is just a tool
It does not impoverish the activities it mediates
Sobel, David
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Beyond ecophobia
How to teach children a love of the environment
Stahnke, Christopher
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Metaphysics underlies technology debates
Western culture has repressed certain aspects of the human being
Stahnke, Christopher M.
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The future does not belong to Walter Mitty
Technology and the need to feed our spirits
Talbott, Stephen L.
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The Internet as terminator
There is no technological fix for prejudice
Liberation and oppression on the Net
Who is the big, bad wolf?
FAQ: Computerized technology and human responsibility
A non-canonical exercise
Committing ourselves to tinkerers
When emptiness rules
Communes, the Net, and self-governance
A minor reflection upon the Virtual Magistrate Project
In (partial) defense of Peter Quince
Let's have both freedom and realism
Do computers benefit education?
A new paradigm needs more than glamor
The tool's threat lies in our unawareness
Give ambiguity and complexity their due
Every tool is an obstacle
Computer critics need not worship books
Speeding toward meaninglessness
Why time-saving devices don't save time
The illusion of online efficiency
There is only one exit from the technological arms race
On writing with pencil and paper
A few little tricks
The future of freedom
Technological determinism is an ambiguous affair
Forgetting ourselves in the age of automatons
Does the Internet have a future?
Will advertising keep the Net free?
Our continuing experiment in social destruction
Of computers, both electronic and social
What do `computing girls' have to do with high technology?
Privacy in an age of data
The quest for anonymity spells the end of privacy
Privacy in an age of data (part 2)
The balance between public spaces and private places
Privacy in an age of data (part 3)
Conviction-driven versus data-driven transactions
The trouble with genetic engineering
Towards a science of the whole organism
Response to Agre
A healthy private sphere requires a healthy public sphere
Is *Wired* a New Age Journal?
And other impressions of some recent issues
Imprisoning Criminals in Software
Where are the deepest risks of intelligent technology?
Gildered Dreams
Do too many corporate banquets kill off neurons?
Thienes, John
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It may be too late
NETFUTURE is a contrary zephyr in an arctic gale
Thompson, Clive
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The Net isn't an encyclopedia
Teachers must learn about the Net by using it themselves
Tucker, Kevin
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When face-to-face is the only way
But I feel better anyway
Vivo, Marco de
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Spider or fly? Wrong question
I surf; therefore I am
Webb, Marnie
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How do we cultivate responsibility in cyberspace?
We fail badly enough in physical space
Willison, Frank
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Indiscretions
At least it meant something to Hester Prynne; all-knowing machines
Wittnebert, Carl
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Laying Rubber, Flame Wars, and Responsibility
In defense of traditional virtues
Soft speech on the Net
The transforming potential of restraint
What is the criterion for human contact?
Cyberspace is a place for mutual trust
Note about Tarthang Tulku, Tibetan lama
Do straitened minds compensate with mystical hopes?
Automation has undoubtedly boosted productivity
Many jobs are at risk
Bank loan officer and software don't differ much
The undeniable vitality of an impersonal logic
Wright, Jeff
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`Saving' time, money, and physical resources
From dishwashers to nuclear power plants
Wynn, Eleanor
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Monks consecrate cyberspace
Monastery participates in `24 Hours in Cyberspace'
Zmudzinski, Tom
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Teachers must train students for available jobs
Opportunities to decide the nature of tomorrow's jobs are few
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