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Issue No. 63 January 6, 1998
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Quotes and Provocations
What Hope Does Technology Bring to the New Year?
Toward a Global Super-consciousness
Amusing Ourselves into a Fit
The Bill for All Those Computer Donations Is Now Due
Racing Toward a Brick Wall in Order to Stay Ahead
How about a Moratorium on Internet Surveys?
Saying Nothing As Fast As Possible
Issue No. 64 January 20, 1998
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Quotes and Provocations
Chains of Logic
Is Technology Good for Society? (Your Answer, Please)
Consulting as a Respectable Business
Technology and Chaos
How Technology Co-opted the Good (Part 1) (Stephen L. Talbott)
Issue No. 65 February 10, 1998
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Quotes and Provocations
A Compulsion to Learn?
How Do Justice Department Prosecutors Differ from Lara Croft?
Finally: Relief for Overworked Fingers
Toward More User-friendly Refrigerators
Disclaimer from Peter Cochrane
How Technology Co-opted the Good (Part 2) (Stephen L. Talbott)
Who Said That?
Issue No. 66 February 24, 1998
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Quotes and Provocations
Machines Are Extensions of Us--So Stand Clear!
Breaking-in Is Not Hard to Do
Trust Me
Letter from Des Moines (Lowell Monke)
Correspondence
Problems with Drill-and-test Educational Software
How Gender-neutral Language Changed My Life
A Room of Our Own?
Announcements and Resources
The Legacy of McLuhan: A Symposium at Fordham University
An Organization Seeking to Humanize the Technology Revolution
Who Said That?
Issue No. 67 March 12, 1998
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Quotes and Provocations
The Human Being as Chimpanzee
Technology as Infantilism
El Nino and Technological Determinism
The Human Side of Cloning (Craig Holdrege)
Cloning a Mirage (Stephen L. Talbott)
Correspondence
Cryptography Is Fuel on the Fire, Not a Solution
Announcements and Resources
Our Web Site Is Now Mirrored
New NETFUTURE-related Discussion List
First Forum on Walden3 for NETFUTURE Readers
Who Said That?
Issue No. 68 March 31, 1998
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Quotes and Provocations
Information Trumps Reality
Good-bye Organic Food?
The Computer as Teacher
Beyond the Dreams of Avarice (Part 3) (Stephen L. Talbott)
Who Said That?
Issue No. 69 April 14, 1998
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Quotes and Provocations
Communing with a Condor
Move Along, Now!
When Work Disappears
Improving Productivity--with Horses
How Computers May Promote IRS Reform
Langdon Winner Introduces His New Column
Who Said That?
Issue No. 70 April 30, 1998
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Why Is the Moon Getting Farther Away? (Stephen L. Talbott)
Correspondence
Beyond The Year 2000: Taking the Long View
Missing the Mark on Asimov
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Issue No. 71 May 14, 1998
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Quotes and Provocations
When Computers Can't Finger You
Are Unintended Consequences Really Unintended?
The Most Powerful Tools Are Unbearably Simple
Popular Superstition and Scientific Fears
Brief Notes
Who Said That?
Issue No. 72 June 2, 1998
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Quotes and Provocations
Next: Pigs That Fly?
Ties That Bind
Tech Knowledge Revue (Langdon Winner)
Announcements and Resources
Media, Democracy, and the Public Sphere
The Global Problematique
Who Said That?
Issue No. 73 June 18, 1998
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Quotes and Provocations
Technological Zealotry: Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
Can Photography Blind Us?
Exchanging the World for a Map
Brief Notes
How Technology Dumbs Down Language
Correspondence
Where Were the Academics When It Counted?
Response to Bob Jacobson
Announcements and Resources
Canadian Teachers' Federation Shows Some Backbone
Higher Education and Computer-Mediated Communication
Who Said That?
Issue No. 74 July 9, 1998
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Quotes and Provocations
Garbling the Seeds of the Future
The Teacher Is Central, but `Teaching' Is Not
What Is Balance?
Are We All Petty Bureaucrats?
Complex, Emergent, Self-organizing Nonsense
Correspondence
When Search Engines Are No Longer Independent
Announcements and Resources
Making Education Whole
Who Said That?
Issue No. 75 July 30, 1998
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Quotes and Provocations
Following up
Is Genetic Engineering `Natural'?
The Internet and Competition
Multitasking Ourselves to Death
Brief Notes
Correspondence
Vaclav Havel and Computer Language
Don't Malign Complexity
Marilyn Monroe and Our Virtuality
Announcements and Resources
An Environmental and Health Newsletter
Who Said That?
Issue No. 76 September 15, 1998
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Quotes and Provocations
I'll See You in Court
Is E-trash Necessary for a Good Education?
Can We Sing through Email?
America Screws Up
Tech Knowledge Revue (Langdon Winner)
Correspondence
In Search of Reality
Mixed Reactions to Participative Knowing
Multitasking, or Attention Deficit Disorder?
Announcements and Resources
Physicians and Scientists against Genetically Engineered Food
Who Said That?
Issue No. 77 October 6, 1998
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Quotes and Provocations
Privacy and Prejudice
Loosing Genetic Restraints (Scene 1)
Loosing Genetic Restraints (Scene 2)
Does the Computer Eliminate Boring Work?
Emoticons
Correspondence
Tips for Television Watchers?
The Value of a Real Canadian Goose
Yes, We Can Sing Through Email
Would Hemingway Use Emoticons?
Documenting Paralinguistic Practices
Who Said That?
Issue No. 78 October 15, 1998
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Who's Killing Higher Education? (Or is It Suicide?) (Stephen L. Talbott)
Correspondence
Don't Be Hysterical about Privacy
Words Past and Present
Issue No. 79 October 27, 1998
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Quotes and Provocations
On Selling Educational Software
Do They Have Television on Mars?
Finding Wholeness in a Pile of Manure
Letter from Des Moines (Lowell Monke)
Correspondence
College as a Cover for Grade School Failure
What the Objectors to Distance Education Ignore
On Activism and the Credential Wars
Words Past and Present
Issue No. 80 November 24, 1998
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Quotes and Provocations
Can We Learn to Speak Again?
Toddlers as Geometricians
When Childhood Should Rule
The Tyranny of the Gene (Craig Holdrege)
What is The Nature Institute?
Announcements and Resources
A Centennial Celebration of Owen Barfield
Words Past and Present
Issue No. 81 December 10, 1998
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Quotes and Provocations
Here's to the Information Age: A Toast
The Human Genome as a Book of Lies
Digital Diploma Mills Grinding to a Halt?
Breaking through to Reality
Letter from Des Moines (Lowell Monke)
Correspondence
On Giving a Christmas Gift to My Niece
Words Past and Present
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