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Issue No. 37 January 8, 1997
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Quotes and Provocations
Dreams of a Global Village
The Mystical Properties of Zero
Radio Cyberdays
Do Computers Kill People?
Things That Bite Back: Tenner on Productivity (Stephen L. Talbott)
Issue No. 38 January 16, 1997
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Quotes and Provocations
Insecure Little Old Ladies
I and My Genes
Phone Answering Systems in Retreat?
Is Technological Improvement What We Want? (Stephen L. Talbott)
Issue No. 39 January 29, 1997
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Quotes and Provocations
From Universal Access To Universal Paranoia
The Walmart Syndrome
Who Is Embedding Whom?
What Kind of Company Do You Work For?
Dorothy Denning on Cryptography Export Controls
A Note on the Next Fifty Years (Stephen L. Talbott)
Issue No. 40 February 5, 1997
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Quotes and Provocations
Chinese Cookies
Looking up to Government
Businesses That Grow Unprincipled
David Kline on SLT on David Kline
Is Technological Improvement What We Want? (Part 2) (Stephen L. Talbott)
Issue No. 41 February 20, 1997
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Quotes and Provocations
The End of Civilization?
The End of Programming?
Privatizing Censorship
Paul Edwards on the Meaning of the Computer (Stephen L. Talbott)
Issue No. 42 March 6, 1997
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Quotes and Provocations
You Can Fire the Teachers, But You Still Need the Technicians
The New Money: Anonymous But Countable
What Lies Beyond Multiculturalism?
Seeking Balance (Stephen L. Talbott)
Issue No. 43 March 20, 1997
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Quotes and Provocations
Consenting Adults
This Phone Call Is Brought to You by Macdonalds
Education Madness: Further Reports from the Field
Scout Report Follow-up
One Man, His Daughter, and Several Neighborhoods (Peter Kaiser)
Pharming the Cow (Craig Holdrege)
Issue No. 44 April 2, 1997
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Quotes and Provocations
How Much Enduring Art Is There in Computer Graphics?
Year 2000 Apocalypse?
Allowing the World to Change
Education: Waiting for the Outcry
Surfing Ancient, Homeric Fields (Stephen L. Talbott)
Issue No. 45 April 9, 1997
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Quotes and Provocations
Escape from Email Hell
Still Looking for the Productive Computer
Is There a Case for Intrusive User Interfaces?
The Market for Human Suffering (Mark Grundy)
Technological Aimlessness (Stephen L. Talbott)
Issue No. 46 April 18, 1997
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Quotes and Provocations
Sue the Bastards
Censorship, Kids, and the ACLU
How Computers Can Help You Win Over Your Senator
More on Technological Aimlessness
Child, Teacher, World: Three Elements of Education (Stephen L. Talbott)
Issue No. 47 April 30, 1997
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Quotes and Provocations
Waiting for the Revolution
What Price for Our Selves?
The Rhetoric of the Electrical Sublime
Choose Your Battlefield
Getting Schools Wired--or Hooked? (Lowell Monke)
How NETFUTURE Happens (Stephen L. Talbott)
Issue No. 48 May 14, 1997
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Quotes and Provocations
When Speeding Up Is of Doubtful Value
Wow! (again)
Chess and Symbolism
Is Technological Improvement What We Want? (Part 3) (Stephen L. Talbott)
Letter from Des Moines (Lowell Monke)
Announcements and Resources
Conference: Ethics of Electronic Information
Loka Institute and Citizen's Technology Panel
Technological Determinism; Henry Perkinson; the Human Heart
Issue No. 49 May 22, 1997
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Quotes and Provocations
The Net As a Failed Shakespearean Enterprise
What Are Classroom Computers For?
Speeding up the Classroom
The Hollowing Out of Children
Where Are the Investigative Journalists?
Letter from Des Moines (Lowell Monke)
Announcements and Resources
Classroom Support for `Computer and Society' Teachers
Papers: on Seymour Papert, Children As Global Citizens
Issue No. 50 June 4, 1997
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The Ultimate Worker (Stephen L. Talbott)
Issue No. 51 June 18, 1997
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Quotes and Provocations
Waiting for the Net to Grow up
Toward the Great Singularity (Part 1)
The Future of Libraries
Postscript to `The Ultimate Worker'
Financial Fictions: The View from a Bank (David Goldsteen)
Letter from Des Moines (Lowell Monke)
Announcements and Resources
Global Knowledge 97 Conference--and an alternative conference
Humane Village Congress
Issue No. 52 July 2, 1997
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Quotes and Provocations
Laws That Are Made To Be Broken
Wiring Our Schools: Here Comes the Backlash
Toward the Great Singularity (Part 2)
We Are Not Becoming a More Image-based Society
Alice Outwater on Engineering Our Water Resources (Stephen L. Talbott)
Issue No. 53 July 16, 1997
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Quotes and Provocations
Does Your Computer Have You in Its Grip?
Intelligent Agents and the Economics of Meaninglessness
The Net As Womb
The Phantom Pursuit of Computer Literacy
Toward the Great Singularity (Part 3) (Stephen L. Talbott)
Issue No. 54 July 30, 1997
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Quotes and Provocations
Accelerated Life, Computers, and the Environment
Are Our Brains Changing?
The Vacuity of Information
Education and the Net--Read and Weep
Spreadsheet Errors
Helping Students Understand Computers (Stephen L. Talbott)
Announcements and Resources
Background on Waldorf Education
Issue No. 55 September 9, 1997
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Quotes and Provocations
How To Kill and Have Fun
Big Brother in the Bathroom?
Is the Productive Computer Still AWOL?
Sick Campus Networks
The Executioner's Motto (Stephen L. Talbott)
Announcements and Resources
Education Technology: Asking the Right Question
Erratum
Issue No. 56 September 23, 1997
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What Are Televisions For?
For Whom the Locomotive Rolls
Don't Worry about Impressionable Youth
Technology Isn't What It Used To Be
Education As If the World Mattered
Why All the Fuss about Stockholders? (Marjorie Kelly)
Announcements and Resources
Education and Technology: Conference at Columbia University
Issue No. 57 October 7, 1997
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Quotes and Provocations
Keats is Not Cool
You Look **Very** Nice Today
Fuzzy Lines Can Be Explosive
Neural Nets, Stethoscopes, and Patients
Beyond the Dreams of Avarice (Part 1) (Stephen L. Talbott)
Issue No. 58 October 22, 1997
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Quotes and Provocations
Methuselah on Wheels
You Just Missed It
Bruce Willis, Information Warrior
Does Technology Make Us Blind?
Does Information Exist? (Stephen L. Talbott)
Announcements and Resources
Sysops, the Law, and Online Community
Two Papers: Media Ecology and Education
Issue No. 59 November 4, 1997
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Quotes and Provocations
Computer-prompted Senate?
Teaching Children To Stalk the Wild Information
From Couch Potato to Desk Potahto
Does Technology Set Us Free?
Distributing Big Brother's Intelligence (Stephen L. Talbott)
Issue No. 60 November 18, 1997
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Quotes and Provocations
First It Was Quality Time...
These Are the Classrooms the State Has Made
The Business of Pandering
Model T's; Babies Spell the End of Your Life
Beyond the Dreams of Avarice (Part 2) (Stephen L. Talbott)
Issue No. 61 December 1 1997
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Quotes and Provocations
What Movies and Computers Have in Common
The Digital Citizen: More Nonsense from *Wired*
The Threat of Computer Illiteracy among Babies
If Big Brother Has Been Dismembered, Are We Safe?
Why I Do Not Use `Gender-neutral' Language
Issue No. 62 December 16 1997
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Quotes and Provocations
The Global Economic Crunch: Is More Efficiency What We Need?
I Scrambled Your Genes (But Don't Blame Me--I Just Work Here)
Computers in the Classroom: Where's the Beef?
Disfigured Hope: Arthur Zajonc on Technology's Promise
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