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    Issue No. 63                                               January 6, 1998
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    Table of Contents
    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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    Table of Contents
    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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    Table of Contents
    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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    Table of Contents
    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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    Table of Contents
    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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    Table of Contents
    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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    Table of Contents
    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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    Table of Contents
    Why Is the Moon Getting Farther Away?  (Stephen L. Talbott)
    Correspondence
        Beyond The Year 2000: Taking the Long View
        Missing the Mark on Asimov
    Who Said That?
    
    Issue No. 71                                                  May 14, 1998
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    Table of Contents
    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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    Table of Contents
    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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    Table of Contents
    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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    Table of Contents
    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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    Table of Contents
    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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    Table of Contents
    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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    Table of Contents
    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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    Table of Contents
    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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    Table of Contents
    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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    Table of Contents
    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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    Table of Contents
    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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