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    Issue No. 37                                               January 8, 1997
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    Table of Contents
    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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    Table of Contents
    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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    Table of Contents
    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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    Table of Contents
    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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    Table of Contents
    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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    Quotes and Provocations
        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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