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Issue No. 3 January 4, 1996
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SPIDER OR FLY? -- $5000 competition
Preliminary announcement
Editor's note
Homing in on the topics of netfuture
Do subscriber numbers matter? (Michael Legeros)
A brief conversation
The Internet as terminator (Stephen L. Talbott)
There is no technological fix for prejudice
Our lives have become a series of addictions (Dale Lehman)
Computers are not the only dangerous tools
Economics, not technology, is the problem (Pascal de Caprariis)
That phone answering system again
Kill the droids. Up with the machines (Dick Carlson)
Human operators can be the biggest pain
Problems with Nonstandardized Phone Answering Systems (Henry G. Cox)
This user needs a cheat sheet
The complexities of technological determination (Doug Johnson)
We don't control everything and we don't control nothing
The ultimate pen pal club (Candi Brooks)
Linguistic excursions on the Net
Issue No. 4 January 15, 1996
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Editor's note
We're making progress
Homogenizing global society (J. David Stanton, Jr.)
How long can that pen pal club offer a taste of different cultures?
Don't try to control technology; adapt (Christopher D. Frankonis)
Avoiding cultural chauvinism
Bigotry and openness on the Net (Joel Ben-Avraham)
The lines between
Prejudice on the Internet (Mark Grundy)
Freedom and a whiff of danger
Basement Wiring: More Metaphors for the Infobahn (Robert Richardson)
An unsettling vision from downstairs
Editor's apology to Dick Carlson
There are layers of meaning in every message
Liberation and oppression on the Net (Stephen L. Talbott)
Who is the big, bad wolf?
SPIDER OR FLY? -- $500 writing competition
Are we masters of the Web, or trapped in it?
An addition to the NETFUTURE guidelines
Keep your submission focused
Issue No. 5 January 25, 1996
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Editor's note
You can help
SPIDER OR FLY? -- $5000 writing contest
Are we masters of the Web or trapped in it?
FAQ: Computerized technology and human responsibility (Stephen L. Talbott)
A non-canonical exercise
Issue No. 6 February 6, 1996
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Editor's note
WWW or MMM? The Specter of Multi-media Mediocrity
A Web pioneer asks: Can the flood of cyber junk be halted?
Flamers as guardians of the Net's purity
An absurd view receives an absurd reinforcement
A quick guide to the politics of cyberspace (Richard Sclove)
What are the cyberlibertarians missing?
Laying Rubber, Flame Wars, and Responsibility (Carl Wittnebert)
In defense of traditional virtues
I feel fine (Scott Lopatin)
The migration to a higher self has started
The limits of adaptation and mastery (Christopher Frankonis)
How much responsibility do we bear for the technological future?
The Internet and the Soviet collapse (Michael Kudryashev)
Soap operas would have been more effective
Issue No. 7 February 14, 1996
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Eating spam in the House and Senate
But our representatives are fighting back
Declaration of mindlessness in cyberspace
Is the Net the current drug of choice?
Committing ourselves to tinkerers (Stephen L. Talbott)
When emptiness rules
A quick guide to the politics of cyberspace, pt. 2 (Richard Sclove)
The cybernetic Wal-Mart effect and other concerns
Web chaos and personal responsibility (Dale Lehman)
The real problem is dehumanization
Sour grapes from Mr. Ciolek (Chris Howard)
The web may compare favorably to TV and newspapers
Going with the flow (Kevin Jessup)
From Luddite to Extropian
Soft speech on the Net (Carl Wittnebert)
The transforming potential of restraint
Monks consecrate cyberspace (Eleanor Wynn)
Monastery participates in `24 Hours in Cyberspace'
It may be too late (John Thienes)
NETFUTURE is a contrary zephyr in an arctic gale
Issue No. 8 February 26, 1996
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A nineteenth-century man confronts the computer (Peter Quince)
`I glorify silence in front of my low-tech coal fire'
Communications technology and the magic of relationship (Mark Grundy)
Grandmother can speak through any medium
A quick guide to the politics of cyberspace, pt. 3 (Richard Sclove)
The Net and democracy
They used to kill bison (Don Bell)
20th-century technology has not made us less sensitive
The enemies of the profound word (Leslie DeGroff)
But time will resolve much of the problem of quality
Ballad of the spider and the fly (Gandalf Parker)
Now what was I looking for?
Issue No. 9 March 11, 1996
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Editor's note
Communes, the Net, and self-governance (Stephen L. Talbott)
A minor reflection upon the Virtual Magistrate Project
Flying or falling through cyberspace? (Mark Jost)
By what standard do we judge online realities?
Peter Quince's contradiction (Sean Shapira)
The dangers of absolutism
When face-to-face is the only way (Kevin Tucker)
But I feel better anyway
Mr. Quince, change happens (Kent Quirk)
The soul is *in* the machine
In (partial) defense of Peter Quince (Stephen L. Talbott)
Let's have both freedom and realism
Can the `End of Education' Be `Life on the Screen'? (Lowell Monke)
Review of books by Turkle and Postman
Issue No. 10 March 19, 1996
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Editor's note
Cyberhate in Canada
The end of prejudice?
The Net, or Huckleberry Finn?
Billions of dollars on one side; can we find 30 sec. on the other?
Spider or fly? Wrong question (Marco de Vivo)
I surf; therefore I am
A quick guide to the politics of cyberspace, pt. 4 (Richard Sclove)
Of activism and individual responsibility
The future does not belong to Walter Mitty (Christopher M. Stahnke)
Technology and the need to feed our spirits
The Internet is for adults (Bob Schmidt)
Leave children out of it
The Net does not cause psychic fragmentation (Christopher Frankonis)
Although it may amplify it
Do computers benefit education? (Stephen L. Talbott)
A new paradigm needs more than glamor
Issue No. 11 March 21, 1996
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Editor's note
Discussions here have been intellectually vacuous (Alain Henon)
This leads to a danger of political extremism
The Net does not limit our options (Peter Faller)
Neither is the computer a threat
What is the criterion for human contact? (Carl Wittnebert)
Cyberspace is a place for mutual trust
Only worthwhile products of technology survive (Mike Fischbein)
Technology does not constrain our options, but increases them
There is no natural world left (David Petraitis)
The world is as we make it
Net debates and true believers (Leslie DeGroff)
Check out Eric Hoffer's books
Issue No. 12 March 26, 1996
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Editor's note
NETFUTURE now has two indexes
The tool's threat lies in our unawareness (Stephen L. Talbott)
Give ambiguity and complexity their due
Every tool is an obstacle (Stephen L. Talbott)
Computer critics need not worship books
Issue No. 13 March 28, 1996
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Editor's note
Stirrups and social change (Sue Barnes)
Joining man and steed into a fighting organism
Damn the computers (Kevin Jones)
A long-time user's lament
Issue No. 14 April 2, 1996
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Editor's note
A hunger for the natural world
An interesting report from \*CPublisher's Weekly\*c
What Turkle misses (Sue Barnes)
Virtual lives are not separate from real lives
It's simple Kevin: don't upgrade (Siddhartha Mukherjee)
Successful employee resistance has occurred
Luddites and technicians keep society in balance (Don Davis)
Both are necessary
What separates a Postman from a Negroponte? (Claire Benedikt)
Metaphysics underlies technology debates (Christopher Stahnke)
Western culture has repressed certain aspects of the human being
I, too, am starting to worry (Kirk McElhearn)
A vision of neo-luddites in caves
We relate to technology as to an archetype (Kevin Jones)
A technological shaman within the male psyche?
A further note about the stirrup (Dave Davis)
Issue No. 15 April 11, 1996
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Editor's note
Redefining NETFUTURE
A child's world (David Hakala)
This child knows his own priorities
A quick guide to the politics of cyberspace, pt. 5 (Richard Sclove)
An activist's hope for the future
Dealing reasonably with cyberhate (Rob Slade)
How important are the kooks?
Advertising and the pressure to upgrade (Mike Fischbein)
The relation between computers and bell-bottoms
Issue No. 16 April 22, 1996
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talk.netfuture? (Sebastian Mendler)
Linking minds and machines
Note on a speech by Frederick Brooks, and a comment
An American philosopher and Internet chat groups
Collective action and community are different things
Web called 'ultimate act of intellectual colonialism'
It's English or nothing
Are the spiders crawling down your back? (Kirk McElhearn)
Alta Vista shivers
There is no planned obsolescence of software (Chris Howard)
Is the editor a conspiracy theorist?
Hardware vs. software upgrades: different issues (Mike Fischbein)
We don't know how to make reliable software
Issue No. 17 April 25, 1996
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Arthur C. Clarke's Palador and Net consciousness (Jiri Baum)
`An intellect more powerful than any other in the Universe'
Speeding toward meaninglessness (Stephen L. Talbott)
Why time-saving devices don't save time
Issue No. 18 April 30, 1996
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Editor's note
Tyranny of the 21st century
How to get education backwards
`Saving' time, money, and physical resources (Jeff Wright)
From dishwashers to nuclear power plants
Search engines bring our skeletons out of the closet (Matt Midboe)
And it's a good thing: no more vain pretense
Commercial databases and your phone number (P. Eads)
The unapproachability of Yahoo
Note about Tarthang Tulku, Tibetan lama (Carl Wittnebert)
Do straitened minds compensate with mystical hopes?
Luciferian revolt or Electric Gaia? (Michel Bauwens)
How optimists and pessimists look at the Net
Higher consciousness or abdication of responsibility? (Don Porter)
Mystical hopes are without foundation
The web and the hunger for higher consciousness (Randy Hinrichs)
We don't clearly understand what the web is doing
Erratum re: the creatures of Palador
Issue No. 19 May 16, 1996
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Editor's note
High-tech and productivity
Are we seeing renewed productivity or a last gasp?
Masculine transcendentalism
When the physical world melts away
Computers at school: the web and the plow (Lowell Monke)
Reckoning with the costs of technology
Issue No. 20 June 4, 1996
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Editor's note
Technology's recoil
A note from Thoreau
Changes
Seeking a heart beyond technology
The illusion of online efficiency (Stephen L. Talbott)
There is only one exit from the technological arms race
Issue No. 21 June 18, 1996
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Are LCD displays kinder to the soul? (Bill Meacham)
CRTs leave me frazzled and flat
The reckless refreshment of writing on a notepad (Erik Ray)
Will a typewriter be next?
On writing with pencil and paper (Stephen L. Talbott)
A few little tricks
Computers are used more carelessly than typewriters (Mike Fischbein)
Some practical advice
Efficiency vs. effectiveness of the Net (Mike Fischbein)
There's also the problem of error
Automation has undoubtedly boosted productivity (Carl Wittnebert)
Many jobs are at risk
Metaphors about technology are of little use (Stan Kulikowski)
Too much data is better than data selected by others
The Net isn't an encyclopedia (Clive Thompson)
Teachers must learn about the Net by using it themselves
Technology and education: clashing philosophies (Lowell Monke)
We need to get down to first principles
Issue No. 22 June 20, 1996
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Editor's note
An antidote to computer-thinking (Valdemar W. Setzer)
Cultivate the arts
The future of freedom (Stephen L. Talbott)
Technological determinism is an ambiguous affair
Issue No. 23 July 5, 1996
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Forgetting ourselves in the age of automatons (Stephen L. Talbott)
Does the Internet have a future?
Issue No. 24 July 23, 1996
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Editor's note
Will advertising keep the Net free? (Stephen L. Talbott)
Our continuing experiment in social destruction
Death of a gyppo (Robert Leo Heilman)
Logging as an art
Issue No. 25 August 6, 1996
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Editor's note
Prejudice and the Net (John S. Morris)
What is not tested is not remedied
CRTs, eye strain, and meditation states (Kevin Jones)
Jerry Mander had it right when talking about television
Noxious advertising (Bill Meacham)
How do we escape the sickness?
Teachers must train students for available jobs (Tom Zmudzinski)
Opportunities to decide the nature of tomorrow's jobs are few
The importance of context for emergent Net patterns (Reg Harbeck)
Laissez faire, or a conscientious, persistent vigilance?
How do we cultivate responsibility in cyberspace? (Marnie Webb)
We fail badly enough in physical space
Forgetting ourselves has a long history (Brad McCormick)
It is better viewed as a need for self-discovery
Bank loan officer and software don't differ much (Carl Wittnebert)
The undeniable vitality of an impersonal logic
Is your CRT or your environment the problem? (Nicholas Kushmerick)
Flat-panel displays are often used in relaxing places
CRT or noise? (Peter Marks)
Of LCD displays and HardRAM (Jeff Gulliford)
They're easier on eyes and psyche
On clearing up computer displays (David Beiter)
Computer text can be easier reading than paper
Another concurrence about LCD displays (Michel Bauwens)
The joys of crossing out text (Michael Kerwan)
The computer is just a tool (Michael Smith)
It does not impoverish the activities it mediates
Computer does not necessarily impoverish reality (Chung-Chieh Shan)
Or else painting, too, alienates us from reality
We need to exercise the body as well as the mind (Jiri Baum)
Dancing may be the answer
Dancing does not balance our thinking (Val Setzer)
A live thinking is required
Of dancing, painting, gardening (Jiri Baum)
The computer as a fence (Frank Prince)
Good fences make good neighbors
Spirituality and the Net (Clyde Davidson)
Information is not the basis of our fundamental inner choices
Physical versus `intellectual' efficiency (Jeffrey Alexander)
Bottlenecks can serve positive purposes
Issue No. 26 August 17, 1996
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Editor's note
Of computers, both electronic and social (Stephen L. Talbott)
What do `computing girls' have to do with high technology?
The Placeless, Neighborless Realm (Tom Jay)
Does English have a future?
Issue No. 27 September 10, 1996
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Editor's note
Feeling stupid (Paul Griffin)
The web as a space of disconnection and projection
Issue No. 28 September 25, 1996
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Editor's note
Privacy in an age of data (Stephen L. Talbott)
The quest for anonymity spells the end of privacy
Issue No. 29 October 17, 1996
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Editor's note
Privacy in an age of data (part 2) (Stephen L. Talbott)
The balance between public spaces and private places
Issue No. 30 October 24, 1996
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Editor's note
Death Software
Interactive Couch Potatoes
Privacy in an age of data (part 3) (Stephen L. Talbott)
Conviction-driven versus data-driven transactions
Issue No. 31 November 5, 1996
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Editor's note
The trouble with genetic engineering (Stephen L. Talbott)
Towards a science of the whole organism
Issue No. 32 November 10, 1996
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Editor's note
Locking Ourselves in to Standards
The Net As Centralizing Force
Arguing about privacy (Phil Agre)
Privacy is not secrecy
Response to Agre (Stephen L. Talbott)
A healthy private sphere requires a healthy public sphere
Issue No. 33 November 19, 1996
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Editor's notes
You Are the Network
Networks of Convenience
Beyond ecophobia (David Sobel)
How to teach children a love of the environment
Issue No. 34 November 25, 1996
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Quotes and Provocations
How Long Before Reality Sets In?
Technology As Religion
Is *Wired* a New Age Journal? (Stephen L. Talbott)
And other impressions of some recent issues
Issue No. 35 December 5, 1996
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Quotes and Provocations
Beyond Surfing
Software Meltdown in the Year 2000?
Sex on the Internet
Imprisoning Criminals in Software (Stephen L. Talbott)
Where are the deepest risks of intelligent technology?
Issue No. 36 December 19, 1996
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Quotes and Provocations
Classroom Revolutions
Net Politics
The Net and Perdition
Gildered Dreams (Stephen L. Talbott)
Do too many corporate banquets kill off neurons?
Indiscretions (Frank Willison)
At least it meant something to Hester Prynne; all-knowing machines
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