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About NetFuture Agriculture Alliance for Childhood Alternative culture Animal welfare Art and graphics Artificial intelligence Artificial life Automobile Brain and mind Business and capitalism Censorship Centralization and authority Community--virtual and otherwise Computer applications Computer as agent of the past Computers vs. people Culture of the Net Digital age nonsense Disabilities and computers Distance education Education and computers Electronic games Electronic mysticism Email Environmental issues Evolution Evolution of consciousness Fundamental deceit of technology Genetics and genetic engineering Global village Health and medicine History of computing Holistic science Human freedom Human-computer interface Information Information reliability Intelligent agents Language Living life faster Mechanistic and reductionist science Media issues Miscellaneous Nanotechnology Orality and literacy Personal relationships Physiology and electronic media Polarity Politics and social action Privacy and security Productivity and computers Psychology, identity, and the Net Quantitative and statistical side of computer Quantity and statistics Scattered mind Sex Standards and open systems Technological efficiency Technological inevitability Technological neutrality Technological optimism Ubiquitous computing Virtual Community Virtual reality Year 2000 problem About NetFuture -------------------------------------------------------------------------- About This Newsletter Issue: NF #186, February 28, 2013 Agriculture -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Science's Forbidden Question Author: Craig Holdrege and Steve Talbott Issue: NF #166, January 16, 2007 Raising Hogs Unimaginatively Issue: NF #147, July 15, 2003 Of Factory Farms and the Master Race Issue: NF #145, May 20, 2003 Is There a Gene for Famine Relief? Issue: NF #145, May 20, 2003 Cheap Food at Any Cost Issue: NF #143, April 1, 2003 Should Genetically Modified Foods Be Labeled? Author: Craig Holdrege Issue: NF #135, August 29, 2002 Barry Commoner on the De-throning of DNA Issue: NF #128, February 12, 2002 Eating Locally: Recipe for a Cultural Revolution In article: "Books Received" Issue: NF #128, February 12, 2002 An Entomologist's Killing Fields Issue: NF #124, October 30, 2001 Sowing Technology Author: Craig Holdrege and Steve Talbott Issue: NF #123, October 9, 2001 Brief Notes from All Over Issue: NF #119, March 27, 2001 Growing Potatoes in the Ivory Tower Issue: NF #116, January 11, 2001 Factory-farmed Pigs: Further Thoughts Author: Douglas Sloan Issue: NF #116, January 11, 2001 Technology, Animals, and People Issue: NF #114, November 30, 2000 The Pigs of Iowa Author: Lowell Monke Issue: NF #114, November 30, 2000 Asian Rice: A `Stunning' Result Issue: NF #113, October 31, 2000 Golden Genes and World Hunger: Let Them Eat Transgenic Rice? Issue: NF #108, July 6, 2000 Your Food is a Little Bit Safer Today Issue: NF #96, October 14, 1999 The Farm in Its Landscape Author: Craig Holdrege Issue: NF #86, March 11, 1999 Imagining a Better Potato Issue: NF #83, January 19, 1999 When Technology is Smoke and Confusion Issue: NF #83, January 19, 1999 Aggressive Agriculture Issue: NF #82, January 5, 1999 The Tyranny of the Gene Author: Craig Holdrege Issue: NF #80, November 24, 1998 Finding Wholeness in a Pile of Manure Issue: NF #79, October 27, 1998 Is Genetic Engineering `Natural'? Issue: NF #75, July 30, 1998 Garbling the Seeds of the Future Issue: NF #74, July 9, 1998 Improving Productivity--with Horses Issue: NF #69, April 14, 1998 Good-bye Organic Food? Issue: NF #68, March 31, 1998 Pharming the Cow Author: Craig Holdrege Issue: NF #43, March 20, 1997 Privacy in an age of data (part 3) Issue: NF #30, October 24, 1996 Death of a gyppo Author: Robert Leo Heilman Issue: NF #24, July 23, 1996 Alliance for Childhood -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fool's Gold: A Critical Look at Computers in Childhood Author: Report of the Alliance for Childhood Issue: NF #111, September 12, 2000 Children and Computers: A Call for Action Author: Position Statement--Alliance for Childhood Issue: NF #111, September 12, 2000 Alliance for Childhood--International Conference In article: "Announcements and Resources" Issue: NF #111, September 12, 2000 Education in Search of Spirit In article: "Announcements and Resources" Issue: NF #101, January 27, 2000 Can We Let Children Be Children? Issue: NF #99, December 9, 1999 Technology Literacy Issue: NF #99, December 9, 1999 Alternative culture -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Of Hippies, High Tech, and Cougers In article: "Is *Wired* a New Age Journal?" Issue: NF #34, November 25, 1996 Animal welfare -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Science's Forbidden Question Author: Craig Holdrege and Steve Talbott Issue: NF #166, January 16, 2007 More on the Columbia Monkeys Issue: NF #156, April 20, 2004 In the Service of Science Issue: NF #152, December 9, 2003 Raising Hogs Unimaginatively Issue: NF #147, July 15, 2003 Of Factory Farms and the Master Race Issue: NF #145, May 20, 2003 An Entomologist's Killing Fields Issue: NF #124, October 30, 2001 Factory-farmed Pigs: Further Thoughts Author: Douglas Sloan Issue: NF #116, January 11, 2001 The Pigs of Iowa Author: Lowell Monke Issue: NF #114, November 30, 2000 Pharming the Cow Author: Craig Holdrege Issue: NF #43, March 20, 1997 Art and graphics -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Where Does the User End and PowerPoint Begin? Issue: NF #153, January 6, 2004 The Reality of Appearances Issue: NF #119, March 27, 2001 Image Ascendent, or Descendent? Issue: NF #109, August 3, 2000 Freeman Dyson on the Survival of Craftsmanship Issue: NF #84, February 9, 1999 Can Photography Blind Us? Issue: NF #73, June 18, 1998 Bruce Willis, Information Warrior Issue: NF #58, October 22, 1997 We Are Not Becoming a More Image-based Society Issue: NF #52, July 2, 1997 How Much Enduring Art Is There in Computer Graphics? Issue: NF #44, April 2, 1997 Artificial intelligence -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robots: Getting Down to Essences Issue: NF #161, March 9, 2005 Logic, DNA, and Poetry Issue: NF #160, January 25, 2005 Invisible Tools, Emotionally Supportive Pals, Or...? Issue: NF #159, December 7, 2004 From HAL to Kismet: Your Evolution Dollars at Work Issue: NF #149, August 28, 2003 When the Mind Dogmatizes about Itself Issue: NF #148, August 5, 2003 Intelligence and Its Artifacts Issue: NF #148, August 5, 2003 Flesh and Machines: The Mere Assertions of Rodney Brooks Issue: NF #146, June 24, 2003 Conversing with Ella Issue: NF #140, December 26, 2002 Disconnect? Author: Kevin Kelly and Steve Talbott Issue: NF #139, December 3, 2002 Ellen Ullman on Artificial Unintelligibility Issue: NF #138, November 7, 2002 What Are the Right Questions? Author: Kevin Kelly and Steve Talbott Issue: NF #136, September 26, 2002 Are Machines Living Things? Author: Kevin Kelly and Steve Talbott Issue: NF #133, June 25, 2002 On Giving Rats a Virtual Life Issue: NF #132, May 21, 2002 Is AI Unfairly Maligned? Issue: NF #131, April 30, 2002 Wrangling over Odysseus: An Exchange with Kevin Kelly Issue: NF #126, December 18, 2001 Conference on Abdicated Minds Issue: NF #86, March 11, 1999 Neural Nets, Stethoscopes, and Patients Issue: NF #57, October 7, 1997 The Executioner's Motto Issue: NF #55, September 9, 1997 Chess and Symbolism Issue: NF #48, May 14, 1997 The Ultimate Enclosure In article: "Paul Edwards on the Meaning of the Computer" Issue: NF #41, February 20, 1997 Linking minds and machines Issue: NF #16, April 22, 1996 Artificial life -------------------------------------------------------------------------- How to Manufacture the Notion of Synthetic Life Issue: NF #180, March 25, 2010 Ghosts in the Evolutionary Machinery Issue: NF #170, July 19, 2007 Automobile -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Banning Teenagers to Furtive Little Holes Issue: NF #105, April 18, 2000 Automobiles: On the Road to Nowhere Issue: NF #105, April 18, 2000 A Paradoxical Reversal In article: "The Trouble with Ubiquitous Technology Pushers (Part 2)" Issue: NF #101, January 27, 2000 Are Unintended Consequences Really Unintended? Issue: NF #71, May 14, 1998 The Net and Perdition Issue: NF #36, December 19, 1996 Brain and mind -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Do Plants Think? Issue: NF #154, February 12, 2004 When the Mind Dogmatizes about Itself Issue: NF #148, August 5, 2003 Me and My Double Helixes Issue: NF #144, April 29, 2003 Ellen Ullman on Artificial Unintelligibility Issue: NF #138, November 7, 2002 Mindlessness and the Brain Issue: NF #138, November 7, 2002 I Wonder What My Brain is Thinking? Issue: NF #89, May 4, 1999 Business and capitalism -------------------------------------------------------------------------- On the Global Economic Crisis In article: "Editor's Note" Issue: NF #174, December 22, 2008 A Taste for Number Magic Author: Steve Talbott (stevet@oreilly.com) Issue: NF #174, December 22, 2008 Economic Bubbles -- and an Overlooked Distinction Issue: NF #172, April 22, 2008 The Barren Global Vision of Thomas Friedman Issue: NF #163, May 13, 2005 Who Needs Media Regulation? Issue: NF #149, August 28, 2003 Commerce as Storytelling Issue: NF #149, August 28, 2003 Are Corporations to Blame? Issue: NF #143, April 1, 2003 Cheap Food at Any Cost Issue: NF #143, April 1, 2003 Three Economic Absurdities Issue: NF #143, April 1, 2003 Branding the Branders: Turnabout Is Fair Play Issue: NF #120, April 24, 2001 Beyond Elite Globalization Issue: NF #120, April 24, 2001 Confronting the Culture of Disrespect Author: Langdon Winner Issue: NF #115, December 21, 2000 The Nasdaq as Santa Claus? Issue: NF #114, November 30, 2000 Free Trade and Ethics Author: John Pierce Issue: NF #107, June 1, 2000 Laughing Our Way to the Global Village Issue: NF #106, May 9, 2000 Greed Is Greed Is Greed...Is Good? Issue: NF #106, May 9, 2000 The World Trade Organization: Economics as Technology Issue: NF #106, May 9, 2000 Who Owns Microsoft's Profits? Issue: NF #106, May 9, 2000 Search Globally, Buy Locally Author: Phil Walsh Issue: NF #91, June 23, 1999 Why I Use Amazon.com Author: Bryce Muir Issue: NF #91, June 23, 1999 Amazon.com's Excellent Service is Worth Supporting Author: Kirk McElhearn Issue: NF #91, June 23, 1999 Why I Never Buy Books from Amazon.com Issue: NF #90, May 14, 1999 Cluttering Our Lives for Profit Issue: NF #86, March 11, 1999 Consumer Manipulation Made Easy Issue: NF #85, February 25, 1999 Does the Computer Eliminate Boring Work? Issue: NF #77, October 6, 1998 Beyond the Dreams of Avarice (Part 3) Issue: NF #68, March 31, 1998 Racing Toward a Brick Wall in Order to Stay Ahead Issue: NF #63, January 6, 1998 Saying Nothing As Fast As Possible Issue: NF #63, January 6, 1998 The Global Economic Crunch: Is More Efficiency What We Need? Issue: NF #62, December 16 1997 The Threat of Computer Illiteracy among Babies Issue: NF #61, December 1 1997 The Business of Pandering Issue: NF #60, November 18, 1997 Beyond the Dreams of Avarice (Part 2) Issue: NF #60, November 18, 1997 Fuzzy Lines Can Be Explosive Issue: NF #57, October 7, 1997 Beyond the Dreams of Avarice (Part 1) Issue: NF #57, October 7, 1997 Don't Worry about Impressionable Youth Issue: NF #56, September 23, 1997 Why All the Fuss about Stockholders? Author: Marjorie Kelly Issue: NF #56, September 23, 1997 Intelligent Agents and the Economics of Meaninglessness Issue: NF #53, July 16, 1997 Postscript to `The Ultimate Worker' Issue: NF #51, June 18, 1997 Financial Fictions: The View from a Bank Author: David L. Goldsteen Issue: NF #51, June 18, 1997 The Ultimate Worker Issue: NF #50, June 4, 1997 What Price for Our Selves? Issue: NF #47, April 30, 1997 Getting Schools Wired--or Hooked? Author: Lowell Monke Issue: NF #47, April 30, 1997 Sue the Bastards Issue: NF #46, April 18, 1997 More on Technological Aimlessness Issue: NF #46, April 18, 1997 Technological Aimlessness Issue: NF #45, April 9, 1997 This Phone Call Is Brought to You by Macdonalds Issue: NF #43, March 20, 1997 The New Money: Anonymous But Countable Issue: NF #42, March 6, 1997 Businesses That Grow Unprincipled Issue: NF #40, February 5, 1997 The Walmart Syndrome Issue: NF #39, January 29, 1997 What Kind of Company Do You Work For? Issue: NF #39, January 29, 1997 Gildered Dreams Issue: NF #36, December 19, 1996 Privacy in an age of data (part 3) Issue: NF #30, October 24, 1996 Of computers, both electronic and social Issue: NF #26, August 17, 1996 Will advertising keep the Net free? Issue: NF #24, July 23, 1996 Computing To Work In article: "Forgetting ourselves in the age of automatons" Issue: NF #23, July 5, 1996 Reengineering society for efficiency In article: "The illusion of online efficiency" Issue: NF #20, June 4, 1996 A quick guide to the politics of cyberspace, pt. 4 Author: Richard Sclove Issue: NF #10, March 19, 1996 A quick guide to the politics of cyberspace, pt. 3 Author: Richard Sclove Issue: NF #8, February 26, 1996 Liberation and oppression on the Net Issue: NF #4, January 15, 1996 Censorship -------------------------------------------------------------------------- How Technology Dumbs Down Language Issue: NF #73, June 18, 1998 Censorship, Kids, and the ACLU Issue: NF #46, April 18, 1997 Privatizing Censorship Issue: NF #41, February 20, 1997 Chinese Cookies Issue: NF #40, February 5, 1997 Editor's note Issue: NF #28, September 25, 1996 Censorship In article: "Forgetting ourselves in the age of automatons" Issue: NF #23, July 5, 1996 Liberation and oppression on the Net Issue: NF #4, January 15, 1996 The Great Crusade Against Censorship Issue: NF #2, December 21, 1995 Centralization and authority -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ubiquitous Tyranny? In article: "Does the Future Compute?" Issue: NF #142, February 25, 2003 Does the Computer Eliminate Boring Work? Issue: NF #77, October 6, 1998 If Big Brother Has Been Dismembered, Are We Safe? Issue: NF #61, December 1 1997 Distributing Big Brother's Intelligence Issue: NF #59, November 4, 1997 What Lies Beyond Multiculturalism? Issue: NF #42, March 6, 1997 Paul Edwards on the Meaning of the Computer Issue: NF #41, February 20, 1997 Chinese Cookies Issue: NF #40, February 5, 1997 From Universal Access To Universal Paranoia Issue: NF #39, January 29, 1997 Net Politics Issue: NF #36, December 19, 1996 The Net As Centralizing Force In article: "Editor's note" Issue: NF #32, November 10, 1996 A quick guide to the politics of cyberspace, pt. 4 Author: Richard Sclove Issue: NF #10, March 19, 1996 A quick guide to the politics of cyberspace, pt. 3 Author: Richard Sclove Issue: NF #8, February 26, 1996 Liberation and oppression on the Net Issue: NF #4, January 15, 1996 Community--virtual and otherwise -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Where We Have Come To (Part 1) Issue: NF #165, October 25, 2005 The Internet: Reflections on Our Present Discontents Issue: NF #150, October 7, 2003 More on Email Issue: NF #124, October 30, 2001 Still Disconnecting Issue: NF #122, September 18, 2001 How to Prepare for a Frenetic World Author: Peter Denning Issue: NF #122, September 18, 2001 Quit Bashing the Media Lab Author: Amy Bruckman Issue: NF #122, September 18, 2001 Reply to Amy Bruckman Author: Langdon Winner Issue: NF #122, September 18, 2001 Why I Have Disconnected from Email Issue: NF #121, July 27, 2001 Whatever Happened to the Electronic Cottage? Author: Langdon Winner Issue: NF #121, July 27, 2001 On Forgetting to Wear Boots Issue: NF #117, February 1, 2001 Email Is Not a Solitary Activity Author: Jiri Baum Issue: NF #104, March 21, 2000 Response to Jiri Baum Author: Langdon Winner Issue: NF #104, March 21, 2000 Enthusiasm and Concern: Results of a New Technology Poll Author: Langdon Winner Issue: NF #103, February 29, 2000 Why Johnny is a Cynic Issue: NF #86, March 11, 1999 I'm Glad the Net `Corrodes' My Culture Author: Marcelo Rinesi Issue: NF #85, February 25, 1999 Who Are We Without Our Technologies? Author: Muktha Jost Issue: NF #85, February 25, 1999 Privacy and Prejudice Issue: NF #77, October 6, 1998 A Room of Our Own? Author: Margit Watts Issue: NF #66, February 24, 1998 How about a Moratorium on Internet Surveys? Issue: NF #63, January 6, 1998 The Digital Citizen: More Nonsense from *Wired* Issue: NF #61, December 1 1997 One Man, His Daughter, and Several Neighborhoods Author: Peter Kaiser Issue: NF #43, March 20, 1997 Seeking Balance Issue: NF #42, March 6, 1997 Sex on the Internet Issue: NF #35, December 5, 1996 Networks of Convenience In article: "Editor's notes" Issue: NF #33, November 19, 1996 Privacy in an age of data (part 2) Issue: NF #29, October 17, 1996 The Placeless, Neighborless Realm Author: Tom Jay Issue: NF #26, August 17, 1996 Reengineering society for efficiency In article: "The illusion of online efficiency" Issue: NF #20, June 4, 1996 An American philosopher and Internet chat groups Issue: NF #16, April 22, 1996 Communes, the Net, and self-governance Issue: NF #9, March 11, 1996 A quick guide to the politics of cyberspace Author: Richard Sclove Issue: NF #6, February 6, 1996 The Strong Pull of MUDs In article: "The Phenomenology of Computing -- Two Tales from the Net" Issue: NF #1, December 14, 1995 Computer applications -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Heart's Song Issue: NF #157, October 21, 2004 Re-engineering the Personal Resume Issue: NF #156, April 20, 2004 CyberTrackers: Bushmen and Information Technology Issue: NF #154, February 12, 2004 Where Does the User End and PowerPoint Begin? Issue: NF #153, January 6, 2004 Is AI Unfairly Maligned? Issue: NF #131, April 30, 2002 Over-justified Toys Issue: NF #113, October 31, 2000 Will Media Lab Chefs Some Day Become Intelligent? Issue: NF #87, March 30, 1999 Can We Learn to Speak Again? Issue: NF #80, November 24, 1998 When Computers Can't Finger You Issue: NF #71, May 14, 1998 Machines Are Extensions of Us--So Stand Clear! Issue: NF #66, February 24, 1998 Trust Me Issue: NF #66, February 24, 1998 Toward More User-friendly Refrigerators Issue: NF #65, February 10, 1998 Neural Nets, Stethoscopes, and Patients Issue: NF #57, October 7, 1997 How To Kill and Have Fun Issue: NF #55, September 9, 1997 Big Brother in the Bathroom? Issue: NF #55, September 9, 1997 Spreadsheet Errors Issue: NF #54, July 30, 1997 Child, Teacher, World: Three Elements of Education Issue: NF #46, April 18, 1997 The New Money: Anonymous But Countable Issue: NF #42, March 6, 1997 Who Is Embedding Whom? Issue: NF #39, January 29, 1997 A Note on the Next Fifty Years Issue: NF #39, January 29, 1997 Phone Answering Systems in Retreat? Issue: NF #38, January 16, 1997 Is Technological Improvement What We Want? Issue: NF #38, January 16, 1997 Imprisoning Criminals in Software Issue: NF #35, December 5, 1996 You Are the Network In article: "Editor's notes" Issue: NF #33, November 19, 1996 Death Software In article: "Editor's note" Issue: NF #30, October 24, 1996 The Fundamental Deceit of Technology Issue: NF #1, December 14, 1995 Computer as agent of the past -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invisible Tools, Emotionally Supportive Pals, Or...? Issue: NF #159, December 7, 2004 Can We Learn to Speak Again? Issue: NF #80, November 24, 1998 Does the Computer Eliminate Boring Work? Issue: NF #77, October 6, 1998 Imprisoning Criminals in Software Issue: NF #35, December 5, 1996 Forgetting ourselves in the age of automatons Issue: NF #23, July 5, 1996 Computers vs. people -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Where We Have Come To (Part 1) Issue: NF #165, October 25, 2005 Invisible Tools, Emotionally Supportive Pals, Or...? Issue: NF #159, December 7, 2004 Re-engineering the Personal Resume Issue: NF #156, April 20, 2004 DNA and Voting Machines Issue: NF #150, October 7, 2003 The Internet: Reflections on Our Present Discontents Issue: NF #150, October 7, 2003 From HAL to Kismet: Your Evolution Dollars at Work Issue: NF #149, August 28, 2003 Of Factory Farms and the Master Race Issue: NF #145, May 20, 2003 Does the Future Compute? Issue: NF #142, February 25, 2003 Conversing with Ella Issue: NF #140, December 26, 2002 Technology, Alienation, and Freedom Issue: NF #134, July 18, 2002 On Giving Rats a Virtual Life Issue: NF #132, May 21, 2002 How Doing Faster Means Doing Less Issue: NF #131, April 30, 2002 What Are Technology's Gifts? Author: Kevin Kelly and Steve Talbott Issue: NF #130, April 2, 2002 Who Says Computers Are Becoming More Intuitive? Issue: NF #128, February 12, 2002 Wrangling over Odysseus: An Exchange with Kevin Kelly Issue: NF #126, December 18, 2001 The Deceiving Virtues of Technology Issue: NF #125, November 15, 2001 How to Prepare for a Frenetic World Author: Peter Denning Issue: NF #122, September 18, 2001 Quit Bashing the Media Lab Author: Amy Bruckman Issue: NF #122, September 18, 2001 Reply to Amy Bruckman Author: Langdon Winner Issue: NF #122, September 18, 2001 Whatever Happened to the Electronic Cottage? Author: Langdon Winner Issue: NF #121, July 27, 2001 Introducing the Automatic Professor Machine Author: Langdon Winner Issue: NF #118, March 1, 2001 Bill Gates' New Concerns Issue: NF #115, December 21, 2000 The Trouble with Ubiquitous Technology Pushers (Part 3) Issue: NF #112, October 5, 2000 The New, Soulless University? Issue: NF #104, March 21, 2000 When Living Becomes an Inconvenience Author: Phil Walsh Issue: NF #96, October 14, 1999 On Appropriate Behavior for Machines Author: Victor Grey Issue: NF #96, October 14, 1999 The Caller ID Arms Race Author: Steve Baumgarten Issue: NF #96, October 14, 1999 If Computers Behaved Like Toilets Author: David Miller Issue: NF #96, October 14, 1999 Virtuality and the Atomization of Experience Issue: NF #87, March 30, 1999 Trust Me: I'm Vulnerable Issue: NF #83, January 19, 1999 Can We Learn to Speak Again? Issue: NF #80, November 24, 1998 Are We All Petty Bureaucrats? Issue: NF #74, July 9, 1998 Complex, Emergent, Self-organizing Nonsense Issue: NF #74, July 9, 1998 Ties That Bind Issue: NF #72, June 2, 1998 When Computers Can't Finger You Issue: NF #71, May 14, 1998 Brief Notes Issue: NF #71, May 14, 1998 Machines Are Extensions of Us--So Stand Clear! Issue: NF #66, February 24, 1998 Breaking-in Is Not Hard to Do Issue: NF #66, February 24, 1998 Trust Me Issue: NF #66, February 24, 1998 How Do Justice Department Prosecutors Differ from Lara Croft? Issue: NF #65, February 10, 1998 Finally: Relief for Overworked Fingers Issue: NF #65, February 10, 1998 How Technology Co-opted the Good (Part 2) Issue: NF #65, February 10, 1998 Is Technology Good for Society? (Your Answer, Please) Issue: NF #64, January 20, 1998 How Technology Co-opted the Good (Part 1) Issue: NF #64, January 20, 1998 Disfigured Hope: Arthur Zajonc on Technology's Promise Issue: NF #62, December 16 1997 First It Was Quality Time... Issue: NF #60, November 18, 1997 Computer-prompted Senate? Issue: NF #59, November 4, 1997 Distributing Big Brother's Intelligence Issue: NF #59, November 4, 1997 For Whom the Locomotive Rolls Issue: NF #56, September 23, 1997 Toward the Great Singularity (Part 3) Issue: NF #53, July 16, 1997 Laws That Are Made To Be Broken Issue: NF #52, July 2, 1997 Toward the Great Singularity (Part 2) Issue: NF #52, July 2, 1997 Toward the Great Singularity (Part 1) Issue: NF #51, June 18, 1997 Postscript to `The Ultimate Worker' Issue: NF #51, June 18, 1997 Financial Fictions: The View from a Bank Author: David L. Goldsteen Issue: NF #51, June 18, 1997 The Ultimate Worker Issue: NF #50, June 4, 1997 Chess and Symbolism Issue: NF #48, May 14, 1997 Is Technological Improvement What We Want? (Part 3) Issue: NF #48, May 14, 1997 More on Technological Aimlessness Issue: NF #46, April 18, 1997 Is There a Case for Intrusive User Interfaces? Issue: NF #45, April 9, 1997 Technological Aimlessness Issue: NF #45, April 9, 1997 Allowing the World to Change Issue: NF #44, April 2, 1997 One Man, His Daughter, and Several Neighborhoods Author: Peter Kaiser Issue: NF #43, March 20, 1997 Seeking Balance Issue: NF #42, March 6, 1997 David Kline on SLT on David Kline Issue: NF #40, February 5, 1997 Is Technological Improvement What We Want? (Part 2) Issue: NF #40, February 5, 1997 From Universal Access To Universal Paranoia Issue: NF #39, January 29, 1997 Who Is Embedding Whom? Issue: NF #39, January 29, 1997 A Note on the Next Fifty Years Issue: NF #39, January 29, 1997 Is Technological Improvement What We Want? Issue: NF #38, January 16, 1997 Indiscretions Author: Frank Willison Issue: NF #36, December 19, 1996 Remembering Ourselves In article: "Forgetting ourselves in the age of automatons" Issue: NF #23, July 5, 1996 Damn the computers Author: Kevin Jones Issue: NF #13, March 28, 1996 Every tool is an obstacle Issue: NF #12, March 26, 1996 Mr. Quince, change happens Author: Kent Quirk Issue: NF #9, March 11, 1996 In (partial) defense of Peter Quince Issue: NF #9, March 11, 1996 A nineteenth-century man confronts the computer Issue: NF #8, February 26, 1996 Committing ourselves to tinkerers Issue: NF #7, February 14, 1996 The Phenomenology of Computing -- Two Tales from the Net Issue: NF #1, December 14, 1995 Escaping the Computer's Pull through Ironic Immersion In article: "The Phenomenology of Computing -- Two Tales from the Net" Issue: NF #1, December 14, 1995 Culture of the Net -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Where We Have Come To (Part 1) Issue: NF #165, October 25, 2005 High Noon at the DB Corral Issue: NF #132, May 21, 2002 Enthusiasm and Concern: Results of a New Technology Poll Author: Langdon Winner Issue: NF #103, February 29, 2000 I'm Glad the Net `Corrodes' My Culture Author: Marcelo Rinesi Issue: NF #85, February 25, 1999 Who Are We Without Our Technologies? Author: Muktha Jost Issue: NF #85, February 25, 1999 How about a Moratorium on Internet Surveys? Issue: NF #63, January 6, 1998 The Digital Citizen: More Nonsense from *Wired* Issue: NF #61, December 1 1997 The Net As Womb Issue: NF #53, July 16, 1997 Multiculturalism without People Author: Lowell Monke Issue: NF #51, June 18, 1997 The Net's Deceit in Teaching Multiculturalism Author: Lowell Monke Issue: NF #49, May 22, 1997 The Market for Human Suffering Author: Mark Grundy Issue: NF #45, April 9, 1997 Surfing Ancient, Homeric Fields Issue: NF #44, April 2, 1997 Feeling stupid Author: Paul Griffin Issue: NF #27, September 10, 1996 Forgetting ourselves in the age of automatons Issue: NF #23, July 5, 1996 The Internet As Terminator Issue: NF #3, January 4, 1996 The Great Crusade Against Censorship Issue: NF #2, December 21, 1995 Digital age nonsense -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Does the Future Compute? Issue: NF #142, February 25, 2003 Borgmann on the Wonders of the Information Age Issue: NF #96, October 14, 1999 The Fascination with Ubiquitous Control Issue: NF #95, September 23, 1999 Toward Appropriate Behavior by Objects Author: Alan Wexelblat Issue: NF #95, September 23, 1999 Response to Alan Wexelblat Author: Langdon Winner Issue: NF #95, September 23, 1999 The Voluntary Complexity Movement Author: Langdon Winner Issue: NF #94, September 14, 1999 Couch Potatoes Feeling Oppressed at M.I.T. Issue: NF #88, April 16, 1999 Will Media Lab Chefs Some Day Become Intelligent? Issue: NF #87, March 30, 1999 The Internet and Competition Issue: NF #75, July 30, 1998 Toward a Global Super-consciousness Issue: NF #63, January 6, 1998 Is *Wired* a New Age Journal? Issue: NF #34, November 25, 1996 Disabilities and computers -------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Forgetting to Wear Boots Issue: NF #117, February 1, 2001 The Many Voices of Destiny Issue: NF #102, February 16, 2000 Can Technology Make the Handicapped Whole? Issue: NF #92, July 21, 1999 Distance education -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Requiem for Distant Educators Issue: NF #132, May 21, 2002 Education by Acronym Issue: NF #104, March 21, 2000 The New, Soulless University? Issue: NF #104, March 21, 2000 On Constructivism in Education Issue: NF #96, October 14, 1999 Lessons about Doing Distance Education Well Author: John McHugh Issue: NF #90, May 14, 1999 A Worthwhile Distance Education Course Author: Phil Walsh Issue: NF #90, May 14, 1999 Who is a Drop-out? Author: Graham Mainwaring Issue: NF #90, May 14, 1999 A Failure of the Medium or a Failure of Teachers? Author: Bruce A. Metcalf Issue: NF #90, May 14, 1999 How Compelling is Distance Education? Issue: NF #88, April 16, 1999 Digital Diploma Mills Grinding to a Halt? Issue: NF #81, December 10, 1998 Who's Killing Higher Education? (Or is It Suicide?) Issue: NF #78, October 15, 1998 Report from the Digital Diploma Mills Conference Author: Langdon Winner Issue: NF #72, June 2, 1998 Education and computers -------------------------------------------------------------------------- What's (Still) Killing Higher Education? Issue: NF #172, April 22, 2008 Maybe We Should Let Computers *Have* the Schools Issue: NF #161, March 9, 2005 Tech Tonic Issue: NF #157, October 21, 2004 A New Assessment of Computers in the Classroom Issue: NF #151, October 30, 2003 Aphorisms on Computers in Classrooms Issue: NF #147, July 15, 2003 Sex, the Internet, and Educational Reform Issue: NF #132, May 21, 2002 How to Teach in a Post-Modem World In article: "Books Received" Issue: NF #126, December 18, 2001 Introducing the Automatic Professor Machine Author: Langdon Winner Issue: NF #118, March 1, 2001 Do We Really Want Higher Test Scores? Issue: NF #113, October 31, 2000 Over-justified Toys Issue: NF #113, October 31, 2000 Fool's Gold: A Critical Look at Computers in Childhood Author: Report of the Alliance for Childhood Issue: NF #111, September 12, 2000 Children and Computers: A Call for Action Author: Position Statement--Alliance for Childhood Issue: NF #111, September 12, 2000 Mark Pesce's Earth Toy Issue: NF #107, June 1, 2000 How to Put Distance between Your Child and School Issue: NF #107, June 1, 2000 An Education That Transcends Information Author: Carol Cole Issue: NF #107, June 1, 2000 Education Includes the Transmission of Attitudes Author: Klaus Rieckhoff Issue: NF #105, April 18, 2000 The Book's Weakness Is Also Its Strength Author: Wendell Piez Issue: NF #105, April 18, 2000 Education by Acronym Issue: NF #104, March 21, 2000 Making Guinea Pigs of Students Issue: NF #101, January 27, 2000 Technology Literacy Issue: NF #99, December 9, 1999 Dangerous Baby Walkers, Dangerous Software? Issue: NF #96, October 14, 1999 On Constructivism in Education Issue: NF #96, October 14, 1999 The Oral Foundations of Learning Author: David Abram Issue: NF #96, October 14, 1999 When Everything Is Computed Issue: NF #94, September 14, 1999 Schooling the Imagination Issue: NF #94, September 14, 1999 Is High School Dispensable? Issue: NF #93, August 19, 1999 Tales from the Computerized Classroom Issue: NF #89, May 4, 1999 Failure to Connect: Jane Healy on Classroom Computers Issue: NF #89, May 4, 1999 I Wonder What My Brain is Thinking? Issue: NF #89, May 4, 1999 Open Net, Padlocked Libraries Issue: NF #87, March 30, 1999 The High Stakes of Standardized Testing Author: Edward Miller Issue: NF #87, March 30, 1999 When Computers Disappear, Will Salesmen Disappear Too? Issue: NF #86, March 11, 1999 Why Johnny is a Cynic Issue: NF #86, March 11, 1999 Firestorm in a Kindergarten Author: Stuart Cohen Issue: NF #86, March 11, 1999 When Film Projectors Were Going to Redeem Education Author: Alan Winston Issue: NF #86, March 11, 1999 How to Beef Up Your Infant's Knowledge Base Issue: NF #83, January 19, 1999 Wired Schools, Broken Trust Author: Lowell Monke Issue: NF #83, January 19, 1999 Digital Diploma Mills Grinding to a Halt? Issue: NF #81, December 10, 1998 Computer-Centered Learning Author: Lowell Monke Issue: NF #81, December 10, 1998 Toddlers as Geometricians Issue: NF #80, November 24, 1998 When Childhood Should Rule Issue: NF #80, November 24, 1998 On Selling Educational Software Issue: NF #79, October 27, 1998 Why Information is Not Enough Author: Lowell Monke Issue: NF #79, October 27, 1998 College as a Cover for Grade School Failure Author: Dan Lyke Issue: NF #79, October 27, 1998 What the Objectors to Distance Education Ignore Author: Peter Denning Issue: NF #79, October 27, 1998 On Activism and the Credential Wars Author: Bruce A. Metcalf Issue: NF #79, October 27, 1998 The Value of a Real Canadian Goose Author: Stuart Cohen Issue: NF #77, October 6, 1998 Is E-trash Necessary for a Good Education? Issue: NF #76, September 15, 1998 America Screws Up Issue: NF #76, September 15, 1998 In Search of Reality Author: Gary Davis Issue: NF #76, September 15, 1998 Mixed Reactions to Participative Knowing Author: Stephen Keith Sagarin Issue: NF #76, September 15, 1998 Following up Issue: NF #75, July 30, 1998 The Teacher Is Central, but `Teaching' Is Not Issue: NF #74, July 9, 1998 What Is Balance? Issue: NF #74, July 9, 1998 Where Were the Academics When It Counted? Author: Bob Jacobson Issue: NF #73, June 18, 1998 Response to Bob Jacobson Author: Langdon Winner Issue: NF #73, June 18, 1998 Report from the Digital Diploma Mills Conference Author: Langdon Winner Issue: NF #72, June 2, 1998 The Most Powerful Tools Are Unbearably Simple Issue: NF #71, May 14, 1998 Brief Notes Issue: NF #71, May 14, 1998 Why Is the Moon Getting Farther Away? Issue: NF #70, April 30, 1998 The Computer as Teacher Issue: NF #68, March 31, 1998 The Computers That Run Our Schools Author: Lowell Monke Issue: NF #66, February 24, 1998 Problems with Drill-and-test Educational Software Author: Ed Miller Issue: NF #66, February 24, 1998 A Compulsion to Learn? Issue: NF #65, February 10, 1998 Consulting as a Respectable Business Issue: NF #64, January 20, 1998 Teaching the Three `M's in the New Millennium Author: Edward Miller Forwarded article: #1998.1 (January 15, 1998) The Bill for All Those Computer Donations Is Now Due Issue: NF #63, January 6, 1998 Computers in the Classroom: Where's the Beef? Issue: NF #62, December 16 1997 What Movies and Computers Have in Common Issue: NF #61, December 1 1997 The Threat of Computer Illiteracy among Babies Issue: NF #61, December 1 1997 These Are the Classrooms the State Has Made Issue: NF #60, November 18, 1997 Teaching Children To Stalk the Wild Information Issue: NF #59, November 4, 1997 Education As If the World Mattered Issue: NF #56, September 23, 1997 Sick Campus Networks Issue: NF #55, September 9, 1997 Education and the Net--Read and Weep Issue: NF #54, July 30, 1997 Helping Students Understand Computers Issue: NF #54, July 30, 1997 The Phantom Pursuit of Computer Literacy Issue: NF #53, July 16, 1997 Multiculturalism without People Author: Lowell Monke Issue: NF #51, June 18, 1997 What Are Classroom Computers For? Issue: NF #49, May 22, 1997 Speeding up the Classroom Issue: NF #49, May 22, 1997 The Hollowing Out of Children Issue: NF #49, May 22, 1997 Where Are the Investigative Journalists? Issue: NF #49, May 22, 1997 The Net's Deceit in Teaching Multiculturalism Author: Lowell Monke Issue: NF #49, May 22, 1997 An unfunded mandate to teach children to read Author: Lowell Monke Issue: NF #48, May 14, 1997 Getting Schools Wired--or Hooked? Author: Lowell Monke Issue: NF #47, April 30, 1997 Censorship, Kids, and the ACLU Issue: NF #46, April 18, 1997 Child, Teacher, World: Three Elements of Education Issue: NF #46, April 18, 1997 Education: Waiting for the Outcry Issue: NF #44, April 2, 1997 Education Madness: Further Reports from the Field Issue: NF #43, March 20, 1997 You Can Fire the Teachers, But You Still Need the Technicians Issue: NF #42, March 6, 1997 Privatizing Censorship Issue: NF #41, February 20, 1997 Classroom Revolutions Issue: NF #36, December 19, 1996 How Long Before Reality Sets In? Issue: NF #34, November 25, 1996 Beyond Luddism In High School In article: "Is *Wired* a New Age Journal?" Issue: NF #34, November 25, 1996 Beyond ecophobia Author: David Sobel Issue: NF #33, November 19, 1996 Editor's note Issue: NF #28, September 25, 1996 Education; Mysticism In article: "Forgetting ourselves in the age of automatons" Issue: NF #23, July 5, 1996 Computers at School: The Web and the Plow Author: Lowell Monke Issue: NF #19, May 16, 1996 Tyranny of the 21st century Issue: NF #18, April 30, 1996 The Net, or Huckleberry Finn? Issue: NF #10, March 19, 1996 Do computers benefit education? Issue: NF #10, March 19, 1996 Can the `End of Education' Be `Life on the Screen'? Author: Lowell Monke Issue: NF #9, March 11, 1996 Electronic games -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pianists and Video Game Players Issue: NF #159, December 7, 2004 The Most Powerful Tools Are Unbearably Simple Issue: NF #71, May 14, 1998 Amusing Ourselves into a Fit Issue: NF #63, January 6, 1998 Electronic mysticism -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alien Technologies That Operate on Us Issue: NF #98, November 23, 1999 Toward a Global Super-consciousness Issue: NF #63, January 6, 1998 Toward the Great Singularity (Part 3) Issue: NF #53, July 16, 1997 Toward the Great Singularity (Part 2) Issue: NF #52, July 2, 1997 Toward the Great Singularity (Part 1) Issue: NF #51, June 18, 1997 Wired As a New Age Publication In article: "Is *Wired* a New Age Journal?" Issue: NF #34, November 25, 1996 Education; Mysticism In article: "Forgetting ourselves in the age of automatons" Issue: NF #23, July 5, 1996 Masculine transcendentalism Issue: NF #19, May 16, 1996 Luciferian revolt or Electric Gaia? Author: Michel Bauwens Issue: NF #18, April 30, 1996 Email -------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Lot of Unease about Email In article: "Editor's Note" Issue: NF #124, October 30, 2001 More on Email Issue: NF #124, October 30, 2001 Still Disconnecting Issue: NF #122, September 18, 2001 Why I Have Disconnected from Email Issue: NF #121, July 27, 2001 Environmental issues -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Laying Bare the Unintended Consequences of Genetic Engineering Issue: NF #172, April 22, 2008 Medicine and the Environment Issue: NF #156, April 20, 2004 Commerce as Storytelling Issue: NF #149, August 28, 2003 Raising Hogs Unimaginatively Issue: NF #147, July 15, 2003 Are Corporations to Blame? Issue: NF #143, April 1, 2003 Barry Commoner on the De-throning of DNA Issue: NF #128, February 12, 2002 Ecological Conversation Issue: NF #127, January 10, 2002 An Entomologist's Killing Fields Issue: NF #124, October 30, 2001 Sowing Technology Author: Craig Holdrege and Steve Talbott Issue: NF #123, October 9, 2001 On Activism and an Open Mind In article: "Editor's Note" Issue: NF #118, March 1, 2001 Water, Energy, and Global Warming Author: Michael D'Aleo and Stephen Edelglass Issue: NF #118, March 1, 2001 Factory-farmed Pigs: Further Thoughts Author: Douglas Sloan Issue: NF #116, January 11, 2001 Technology, Animals, and People Issue: NF #114, November 30, 2000 The Pigs of Iowa Author: Lowell Monke Issue: NF #114, November 30, 2000 Death and the Single Cause Issue: NF #110, August 31, 2000 Mark Pesce's Earth Toy Issue: NF #107, June 1, 2000 Free Trade and Ethics Author: John Pierce Issue: NF #107, June 1, 2000 The World Trade Organization: Economics as Technology Issue: NF #106, May 9, 2000 Why Do We Celebrate Change While Refusing It? Issue: NF #104, March 21, 2000 Movements, Too, Must Be Allowed to Die Issue: NF #95, September 23, 1999 Cluttering Our Lives for Profit Issue: NF #86, March 11, 1999 The Farm in Its Landscape Author: Craig Holdrege Issue: NF #86, March 11, 1999 Communing with a Condor Issue: NF #69, April 14, 1998 Improving Productivity--with Horses Issue: NF #69, April 14, 1998 How Technology Co-opted the Good (Part 2) Issue: NF #65, February 10, 1998 Technology and Chaos Issue: NF #64, January 20, 1998 How Technology Co-opted the Good (Part 1) Issue: NF #64, January 20, 1998 Accelerated Life, Computers, and the Environment Issue: NF #54, July 30, 1997 Alice Outwater on Engineering Our Water Resources Issue: NF #52, July 2, 1997 Beyond ecophobia Author: David Sobel Issue: NF #33, November 19, 1996 Death of a gyppo Author: Robert Leo Heilman Issue: NF #24, July 23, 1996 Evolution -------------------------------------------------------------------------- A sectarian quarrel? Intelligent design and neo-Darwinism (September 12, 2013) Issue: NF #189, September 17, 2013 Genes and the Central Fallacy of Evolutionary Theory Issue: NF #186, February 28, 2013 How Biologists Lost Sight of the Meaning of Life Issue: NF #184, May 10, 2012 Evolution and the Illusion of Randomness Issue: NF #183, November 10, 2011 Form and Color in the Animal Kingdom Issue: NF #178, October 21, 2009 Evolution of consciousness -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hold a Blossom to the Light Issue: NF #141, January 28, 2003 The Evolution of Progress Issue: NF #136, September 26, 2002 Technology, Alienation, and Freedom Issue: NF #134, July 18, 2002 Ecological Conversation Issue: NF #127, January 10, 2002 Wrangling over Odysseus: An Exchange with Kevin Kelly Issue: NF #126, December 18, 2001 The Deceiving Virtues of Technology Issue: NF #125, November 15, 2001 Image Ascendent, or Descendent? Issue: NF #109, August 3, 2000 On the New Eugenics Issue: NF #102, February 16, 2000 Breaking through to Reality Issue: NF #81, December 10, 1998 The Executioner's Motto Issue: NF #55, September 9, 1997 Are Our Brains Changing? Issue: NF #54, July 30, 1997 Toward the Great Singularity (Part 3) Issue: NF #53, July 16, 1997 Surfing Ancient, Homeric Fields Issue: NF #44, April 2, 1997 The Ultimate Enclosure In article: "Paul Edwards on the Meaning of the Computer" Issue: NF #41, February 20, 1997 Fundamental deceit of technology -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Who Says Computers Are Becoming More Intuitive? Issue: NF #128, February 12, 2002 Double-edged Technologies Issue: NF #124, October 30, 2001 Can Photography Blind Us? Issue: NF #73, June 18, 1998 Ties That Bind Issue: NF #72, June 2, 1998 Toward More User-friendly Refrigerators Issue: NF #65, February 10, 1998 How Technology Co-opted the Good (Part 2) Issue: NF #65, February 10, 1998 How Technology Co-opted the Good (Part 1) Issue: NF #64, January 20, 1998 Is Technological Improvement What We Want? (Part 3) Issue: NF #48, May 14, 1997 The End of Programming? Issue: NF #41, February 20, 1997 Is Technological Improvement What We Want? (Part 2) Issue: NF #40, February 5, 1997 Is Technological Improvement What We Want? Issue: NF #38, January 16, 1997 Locking Ourselves in to Standards In article: "Editor's note" Issue: NF #32, November 10, 1996 The Fundamental Deceit of Technology Issue: NF #1, December 14, 1995 Genetics and genetic engineering -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Will the real Walter Gilbert please stand up? (August 12, 2013) Issue: NF #189, September 17, 2013 Shattering the Genome (August 2, 2013) Issue: NF #189, September 17, 2013 What If We Could See Everything Bearing on Gene Expression? Issue: NF #188, July 19, 2013 Revolution in the Making? Notes from the Biological Literature Issue: NF #187, June 20, 2013 Have Biologists Really Overcome Gene-Centered Thinking? Issue: NF #187, June 20, 2013 Genes and the Central Fallacy of Evolutionary Theory Issue: NF #186, February 28, 2013 Supplemental Articles Issue: NF #186, February 28, 2013 How Biologists Lost Sight of the Meaning of Life Issue: NF #184, May 10, 2012 What Do Organisms Mean? Issue: NF #182, February 22, 2011 The Unbearable Wholeness of Beings Issue: NF #181, December 9, 2010 Getting Over the Code Delusion: Biology's Awakening Issue: NF #179, February 18, 2010 The Mediating Dance of the Nucleosome Issue: NF #177, July 9, 2009 The Chromosome in Nuclear Space Issue: NF #176, May 28, 2009 Twilight of the Double Helix Issue: NF #175, March 12, 2009 Laying Bare the Unintended Consequences of Genetic Engineering Issue: NF #172, April 22, 2008 Can the New Science of Evo-Devo Explain the Form of Organisms? Issue: NF #171, December 13, 2007 Ghosts in the Evolutionary Machinery Issue: NF #170, July 19, 2007 Science's Forbidden Question Author: Craig Holdrege and Steve Talbott Issue: NF #166, January 16, 2007 Mystery Inheritance Issue: NF #163, May 13, 2005 Practical Reductionism Issue: NF #163, May 13, 2005 On Scrambling Genes Safely and Precisely Issue: NF #161, March 9, 2005 Logic, DNA, and Poetry Issue: NF #160, January 25, 2005 Such a Worm as I Issue: NF #153, January 6, 2004 Biotechnology, Ethics, and the Arc of Life Issue: NF #152, December 9, 2003 Adrift in the Genome Without Instructions Issue: NF #150, October 7, 2003 Perfecting the Dance, Forgetting the Dancer Issue: NF #150, October 7, 2003 Missing Weapons Issue: NF #147, July 15, 2003 Notes on Genetic Engineering Issue: NF #147, July 15, 2003 Of Factory Farms and the Master Race Issue: NF #145, May 20, 2003 Is There a Gene for Famine Relief? Issue: NF #145, May 20, 2003 Me and My Double Helixes Issue: NF #144, April 29, 2003 Should Genetically Modified Foods Be Labeled? Author: Craig Holdrege Issue: NF #135, August 29, 2002 Nature's Defective Xerox Machine Issue: NF #129, March 12, 2002 Barry Commoner on the De-throning of DNA Issue: NF #128, February 12, 2002 Sowing Technology Author: Craig Holdrege and Steve Talbott Issue: NF #123, October 9, 2001 Growing Potatoes in the Ivory Tower Issue: NF #116, January 11, 2001 Death and the Single Cause Issue: NF #110, August 31, 2000 Golden Genes and World Hunger: Let Them Eat Transgenic Rice? Issue: NF #108, July 6, 2000 Genome Hackers Issue: NF #105, April 18, 2000 We Need More Than Shocked Indignation Author: Miles Nordin Issue: NF #103, February 29, 2000 I'm Not Sure I'm Ready to Trade in My `Defective' Body Author: Russell Lear Issue: NF #103, February 29, 2000 Recognizing the Limits of Our Understanding Author: Joshua Yeidel Issue: NF #103, February 29, 2000 Tinkering with Ourselves Issue: NF #102, February 16, 2000 On the New Eugenics Issue: NF #102, February 16, 2000 Who Is on the Receiving End of the Genetic Engineer's Power? Issue: NF #100, January 6, 2000 Who Gave Away Control of the World's Germ Plasm? Issue: NF #98, November 23, 1999 Your Food is a Little Bit Safer Today Issue: NF #96, October 14, 1999 What Makes a Technology Inevitable? Issue: NF #95, September 23, 1999 A Recipe for Calamity Issue: NF #85, February 25, 1999 Imagining a Better Potato Issue: NF #83, January 19, 1999 Milk That's Good for Tumors Issue: NF #82, January 5, 1999 The Human Genome as a Book of Lies Issue: NF #81, December 10, 1998 The Tyranny of the Gene Author: Craig Holdrege Issue: NF #80, November 24, 1998 Loosing Genetic Restraints (Scene 1) Issue: NF #77, October 6, 1998 Loosing Genetic Restraints (Scene 2) Issue: NF #77, October 6, 1998 Physicians and Scientists against Genetically Engineered Food In article: "Announcements and Resources" Issue: NF #76, September 15, 1998 Is Genetic Engineering `Natural'? Issue: NF #75, July 30, 1998 Garbling the Seeds of the Future Issue: NF #74, July 9, 1998 Next: Pigs That Fly? Issue: NF #72, June 2, 1998 The Human Being as Chimpanzee Issue: NF #67, March 12, 1998 The Human Side of Cloning Author: Craig Holdrege Issue: NF #67, March 12, 1998 Cloning a Mirage Issue: NF #67, March 12, 1998 I Scrambled Your Genes (But Don't Blame Me--I Just Work Here) Issue: NF #62, December 16 1997 Pharming the Cow Author: Craig Holdrege Issue: NF #43, March 20, 1997 I and My Genes Issue: NF #38, January 16, 1997 The trouble with genetic engineering Issue: NF #31, November 5, 1996 Global village -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Barren Global Vision of Thomas Friedman Issue: NF #163, May 13, 2005 CyberTrackers: Bushmen and Information Technology Issue: NF #154, February 12, 2004 Commerce as Storytelling Issue: NF #149, August 28, 2003 Does the Future Compute? Issue: NF #142, February 25, 2003 Complexity, Trust and Terror Author: Langdon Winner Issue: NF #137, October 22, 2002 Whatever Happened to the Electronic Cottage? Author: Langdon Winner Issue: NF #121, July 27, 2001 Beyond Elite Globalization Issue: NF #120, April 24, 2001 Mark Pesce's Earth Toy Issue: NF #107, June 1, 2000 Laughing Our Way to the Global Village Issue: NF #106, May 9, 2000 The World Trade Organization: Economics as Technology Issue: NF #106, May 9, 2000 Globalism Means Living with Your Neighbor Issue: NF #89, May 4, 1999 Why Johnny is a Cynic Issue: NF #86, March 11, 1999 I'm Glad the Net `Corrodes' My Culture Author: Marcelo Rinesi Issue: NF #85, February 25, 1999 Who Are We Without Our Technologies? Author: Muktha Jost Issue: NF #85, February 25, 1999 Want to Globalize? Then Localize! Issue: NF #84, February 9, 1999 How Technology Dumbs Down Language Issue: NF #73, June 18, 1998 Move Along, Now! Issue: NF #69, April 14, 1998 Multiculturalism without People Author: Lowell Monke Issue: NF #51, June 18, 1997 The Net's Deceit in Teaching Multiculturalism Author: Lowell Monke Issue: NF #49, May 22, 1997 This Phone Call Is Brought to You by Macdonalds Issue: NF #43, March 20, 1997 Dreams of a Global Village Issue: NF #37, January 8, 1997 Networks of Convenience In article: "Editor's notes" Issue: NF #33, November 19, 1996 Health and medicine -------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Scrambling Genes Safely and Precisely Issue: NF #161, March 9, 2005 The Heart's Song Issue: NF #157, October 21, 2004 Tales of Wholeness Issue: NF #156, April 20, 2004 Medicine and the Environment Issue: NF #156, April 20, 2004 Desperate Choices Issue: NF #156, April 20, 2004 On Treating Hyperactive Children with Drugs Issue: NF #154, February 12, 2004 From Estrogen to Testosterone Issue: NF #152, December 9, 2003 Biotechnology, Ethics, and the Arc of Life Issue: NF #152, December 9, 2003 Perfecting the Dance, Forgetting the Dancer Issue: NF #150, October 7, 2003 On Being Wholehearted Issue: NF #140, December 26, 2002 From Baby Walkers to High Tech: The Anti-developmental Stance Issue: NF #135, August 29, 2002 Diagnosing Lady Hamilton's Portrait Issue: NF #119, March 27, 2001 Bill Gates' New Concerns Issue: NF #115, December 21, 2000 What Happens When You Medicalize Childbirth Issue: NF #105, April 18, 2000 The Many Voices of Destiny Issue: NF #102, February 16, 2000 Life-saving Technologies That Kill Issue: NF #98, November 23, 1999 The Distorting Potentials of Technical Capability Issue: NF #95, September 23, 1999 Fear of Healing Issue: NF #93, August 19, 1999 Can Technology Make the Handicapped Whole? Issue: NF #92, July 21, 1999 The Living and the Dead Author: Jacques Lusseyran Issue: NF #92, July 21, 1999 Notes on Health and Medicine Issue: NF #88, April 16, 1999 Ties That Bind Issue: NF #72, June 2, 1998 Neural Nets, Stethoscopes, and Patients Issue: NF #57, October 7, 1997 History of computing -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Technology Isn't What It Used To Be Issue: NF #56, September 23, 1997 What Lies Beyond Multiculturalism? Issue: NF #42, March 6, 1997 Paul Edwards on the Meaning of the Computer Issue: NF #41, February 20, 1997 Of computers, both electronic and social Issue: NF #26, August 17, 1996 Holistic science -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shattering the Genome (August 2, 2013) Issue: NF #189, September 17, 2013 What If We Could See Everything Bearing on Gene Expression? Issue: NF #188, July 19, 2013 Revolution in the Making? Notes from the Biological Literature Issue: NF #187, June 20, 2013 Have Biologists Really Overcome Gene-Centered Thinking? Issue: NF #187, June 20, 2013 What Do Organisms Mean? — A New Website Issue: NF #186, February 28, 2013 Genes and the Central Fallacy of Evolutionary Theory Issue: NF #186, February 28, 2013 Supplemental Articles Issue: NF #186, February 28, 2013 The Poverty of the Instructed Organism Issue: NF #185, June 21, 2012 How Biologists Lost Sight of the Meaning of Life Issue: NF #184, May 10, 2012 What Do Organisms Mean? Issue: NF #182, February 22, 2011 The Unbearable Wholeness of Beings Issue: NF #181, December 9, 2010 How to Manufacture the Notion of Synthetic Life Issue: NF #180, March 25, 2010 Getting Over the Code Delusion: Biology's Awakening Issue: NF #179, February 18, 2010 The Mediating Dance of the Nucleosome Issue: NF #177, July 9, 2009 The Chromosome in Nuclear Space Issue: NF #176, May 28, 2009 Twilight of the Double Helix Issue: NF #175, March 12, 2009 The Embryo's Eloquent Form Issue: NF #173, May 22, 2008 Can the New Science of Evo-Devo Explain the Form of Organisms? Issue: NF #171, December 13, 2007 The Language of Nature (Part III) Issue: NF #169, May 10, 2007 The Language of Nature (Part II) Issue: NF #168, April 13, 2007 The Language of Nature (Part I) Issue: NF #167, March 15, 2007 Can We Learn to Think Like a Plant? Issue: NF #164, July 5, 2005 Recognizing Reality Issue: NF #162, April 5, 2005 Logic, DNA, and Poetry Issue: NF #160, January 25, 2005 The Heart's Song Issue: NF #157, October 21, 2004 Desperate Choices Issue: NF #156, April 20, 2004 Do Physical Laws Make Things Happen? Issue: NF #155, March 16, 2004 From Estrogen to Testosterone Issue: NF #152, December 9, 2003 Biotechnology, Ethics, and the Arc of Life Issue: NF #152, December 9, 2003 The Vanishing World-Machine Issue: NF #151, October 30, 2003 Hold a Blossom to the Light Issue: NF #141, January 28, 2003 On Being Wholehearted Issue: NF #140, December 26, 2002 Disconnect? Author: Kevin Kelly and Steve Talbott Issue: NF #139, December 3, 2002 What Are the Right Questions? Author: Kevin Kelly and Steve Talbott Issue: NF #136, September 26, 2002 Are Machines Living Things? Author: Kevin Kelly and Steve Talbott Issue: NF #133, June 25, 2002 Sowing Technology Author: Craig Holdrege and Steve Talbott Issue: NF #123, October 9, 2001 Death and the Single Cause Issue: NF #110, August 31, 2000 Golden Genes and World Hunger: Let Them Eat Transgenic Rice? Issue: NF #108, July 6, 2000 Who Is on the Receiving End of the Genetic Engineer's Power? Issue: NF #100, January 6, 2000 Technology and the Three-toed Sloth In article: "Editor's Note" Issue: NF #97, November 3, 1999 What Does It Mean to Be a Sloth? Author: Craig Holdrege Issue: NF #97, November 3, 1999 On Constructivism in Education Issue: NF #96, October 14, 1999 Fear of Healing Issue: NF #93, August 19, 1999 Obscure Holism Author: Joshua Yeidel Issue: NF #90, May 14, 1999 Notes on Health and Medicine Issue: NF #88, April 16, 1999 What is The Nature Institute? Issue: NF #80, November 24, 1998 Finding Wholeness in a Pile of Manure Issue: NF #79, October 27, 1998 Pharming the Cow Author: Craig Holdrege Issue: NF #43, March 20, 1997 Human freedom -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Me and My Double Helixes Issue: NF #144, April 29, 2003 Complexity, Trust and Terror Author: Langdon Winner Issue: NF #137, October 22, 2002 Technology, Alienation, and Freedom Issue: NF #134, July 18, 2002 Beyond Elite Globalization Issue: NF #120, April 24, 2001 Technology and Human Responsibility Issue: NF #115, December 21, 2000 Hot Property in Leedsville: The Mumford House Up for Sale Author: Langdon Winner Issue: NF #109, August 3, 2000 Why Do We Celebrate Change While Refusing It? Issue: NF #104, March 21, 2000 Alien Technologies That Operate on Us Issue: NF #98, November 23, 1999 There is a Place for Manipulation Author: Michael Goldhaber Issue: NF #86, March 11, 1999 Consumer Manipulation Made Easy Issue: NF #85, February 25, 1999 Can Open Standards Suffocate Us? Issue: NF #82, January 5, 1999 Does the Computer Eliminate Boring Work? Issue: NF #77, October 6, 1998 Are We All Petty Bureaucrats? Issue: NF #74, July 9, 1998 Beyond the Dreams of Avarice (Part 3) Issue: NF #68, March 31, 1998 Human-computer interface -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invisible Tools, Emotionally Supportive Pals, Or...? Issue: NF #159, December 7, 2004 Who Says Computers Are Becoming More Intuitive? Issue: NF #128, February 12, 2002 Why Television is Habit-forming Issue: NF #128, February 12, 2002 Are We All Petty Bureaucrats? Issue: NF #74, July 9, 1998 Toward More User-friendly Refrigerators Issue: NF #65, February 10, 1998 You Look **Very** Nice Today Issue: NF #57, October 7, 1997 Does Your Computer Have You in Its Grip? Issue: NF #53, July 16, 1997 Information -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Poverty of the Instructed Organism Issue: NF #185, June 21, 2012 Logic, DNA, and Poetry Issue: NF #160, January 25, 2005 The CIA: Drowning in Information Issue: NF #128, February 12, 2002 Please Don't Love Me Only for My Architecture Issue: NF #84, February 9, 1999 There is No Such Thing as Information Issue: NF #84, February 9, 1999 The Great Knowledge Implosion Issue: NF #84, February 9, 1999 Here's to the Information Age: A Toast Issue: NF #81, December 10, 1998 The Human Genome as a Book of Lies Issue: NF #81, December 10, 1998 Why Information is Not Enough Author: Lowell Monke Issue: NF #79, October 27, 1998 I'll See You in Court Issue: NF #76, September 15, 1998 Exchanging the World for a Map Issue: NF #73, June 18, 1998 Next: Pigs That Fly? Issue: NF #72, June 2, 1998 Information Trumps Reality Issue: NF #68, March 31, 1998 You Just Missed It Issue: NF #58, October 22, 1997 Bruce Willis, Information Warrior Issue: NF #58, October 22, 1997 Does Information Exist? Issue: NF #58, October 22, 1997 The Vacuity of Information Issue: NF #54, July 30, 1997 Information reliability -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Information Is Cheap, Conversation Is Dear In article: "Does the Future Compute?" Issue: NF #142, February 25, 2003 When Search Engines Are No Longer Independent Author: Kevin Jones Issue: NF #74, July 9, 1998 Spreadsheet Errors Issue: NF #54, July 30, 1997 The Future of Libraries Issue: NF #51, June 18, 1997 Do Computers Kill People? Issue: NF #37, January 8, 1997 Web chaos and personal responsibility Author: Dale Lehman Issue: NF #7, February 14, 1996 Intelligent agents -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Intelligent Agents and the Economics of Meaninglessness Issue: NF #53, July 16, 1997 Intelligent Advertising Agents In article: "Is *Wired* a New Age Journal?" Issue: NF #34, November 25, 1996 Language -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Poverty of the Instructed Organism Issue: NF #185, June 21, 2012 What Do Organisms Mean? Issue: NF #182, February 22, 2011 The Language of Nature (Part III) Issue: NF #169, May 10, 2007 The Language of Nature (Part II) Issue: NF #168, April 13, 2007 The Language of Nature (Part I) Issue: NF #167, March 15, 2007 More on the Columbia Monkeys Issue: NF #156, April 20, 2004 Do Physical Laws Make Things Happen? Issue: NF #155, March 16, 2004 DNA and Voting Machines Issue: NF #150, October 7, 2003 The Surprising New Language of Mechanism Issue: NF #149, August 28, 2003 Intelligence and Its Artifacts Issue: NF #148, August 5, 2003 Please Don't Love Me Only for My Architecture Issue: NF #84, February 9, 1999 Does NETFUTURE Hold to a Masculine Standard? Author: Rebecca Lynn Eisenberg Issue: NF #83, January 19, 1999 Response to Rebecca Lynn Eisenberg Issue: NF #83, January 19, 1999 Can We Learn to Speak Again? Issue: NF #80, November 24, 1998 Emoticons Issue: NF #77, October 6, 1998 Tips for Television Watchers? Author: Francois VanSteertegem Issue: NF #77, October 6, 1998 Yes, We Can Sing Through Email Author: Bryce Muir Issue: NF #77, October 6, 1998 Would Hemingway Use Emoticons? Author: John Mihelic Issue: NF #77, October 6, 1998 Documenting Paralinguistic Practices Author: Bob Parks Issue: NF #77, October 6, 1998 Vaclav Havel and Computer Language Author: Charles Bell Issue: NF #75, July 30, 1998 Are We All Petty Bureaucrats? Issue: NF #74, July 9, 1998 How Technology Dumbs Down Language Issue: NF #73, June 18, 1998 How Gender-neutral Language Changed My Life Author: Joan Van Tassel Issue: NF #66, February 24, 1998 Why I Do Not Use `Gender-neutral' Language Issue: NF #61, December 1 1997 Does Information Exist? Issue: NF #58, October 22, 1997 The Net's Deceit in Teaching Multiculturalism Author: Lowell Monke Issue: NF #49, May 22, 1997 The Placeless, Neighborless Realm Author: Tom Jay Issue: NF #26, August 17, 1996 Living life faster -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Life as an Emergency Issue: NF #131, April 30, 2002 How Doing Faster Means Doing Less Issue: NF #131, April 30, 2002 Comments from Readers Issue: NF #128, February 12, 2002 How Can We Hold the Balance? Issue: NF #126, December 18, 2001 How to Prepare for a Frenetic World Author: Peter Denning Issue: NF #122, September 18, 2001 Quit Bashing the Media Lab Author: Amy Bruckman Issue: NF #122, September 18, 2001 Reply to Amy Bruckman Author: Langdon Winner Issue: NF #122, September 18, 2001 Whatever Happened to the Electronic Cottage? Author: Langdon Winner Issue: NF #121, July 27, 2001 On Forgetting to Wear Boots Issue: NF #117, February 1, 2001 Is Growing Pessimism about the Internet a Cause for Optimism? Issue: NF #113, October 31, 2000 The Voluntary Complexity Movement Author: Langdon Winner Issue: NF #94, September 14, 1999 Finding Ourselves in Silence Issue: NF #85, February 25, 1999 The Blessings of a Hurricane Issue: NF #85, February 25, 1999 Multitasking, or Attention Deficit Disorder? Author: John Thienes Issue: NF #76, September 15, 1998 On the Importance of Our Powers of Attention Author: Gavin Ferriby Issue: NF #76, September 15, 1998 Multitasking Ourselves to Death Issue: NF #75, July 30, 1998 Move Along, Now! Issue: NF #69, April 14, 1998 First It Was Quality Time... Issue: NF #60, November 18, 1997 The Business of Pandering Issue: NF #60, November 18, 1997 Accelerated Life, Computers, and the Environment Issue: NF #54, July 30, 1997 The Net As Womb Issue: NF #53, July 16, 1997 More on Technological Aimlessness Issue: NF #46, April 18, 1997 Technological Aimlessness Issue: NF #45, April 9, 1997 `Saving' time, money, and physical resources Author: Jeff Wright Issue: NF #18, April 30, 1996 Speeding toward meaninglessness Issue: NF #17, April 25, 1996 Mechanistic and reductionist science -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Genes and the Central Fallacy of Evolutionary Theory Issue: NF #186, February 28, 2013 The Poverty of the Instructed Organism Issue: NF #185, June 21, 2012 How Biologists Lost Sight of the Meaning of Life Issue: NF #184, May 10, 2012 What Do Organisms Mean? Issue: NF #182, February 22, 2011 The Unbearable Wholeness of Beings Issue: NF #181, December 9, 2010 How to Manufacture the Notion of Synthetic Life Issue: NF #180, March 25, 2010 Can the New Science of Evo-Devo Explain the Form of Organisms? Issue: NF #171, December 13, 2007 Ghosts in the Evolutionary Machinery Issue: NF #170, July 19, 2007 The Language of Nature (Part III) Issue: NF #169, May 10, 2007 The Language of Nature (Part II) Issue: NF #168, April 13, 2007 The Language of Nature (Part I) Issue: NF #167, March 15, 2007 Can We Learn to Think Like a Plant? Issue: NF #164, July 5, 2005 Practical Reductionism Issue: NF #163, May 13, 2005 Recognizing Reality Issue: NF #162, April 5, 2005 The Reduction Complex Issue: NF #158, November 9, 2004 Do Physical Laws Make Things Happen? Issue: NF #155, March 16, 2004 Do Plants Think? Issue: NF #154, February 12, 2004 The Limits of Predictability Issue: NF #153, January 6, 2004 The Vanishing World-Machine Issue: NF #151, October 30, 2003 DNA and Voting Machines Issue: NF #150, October 7, 2003 The Surprising New Language of Mechanism Issue: NF #149, August 28, 2003 When the Mind Dogmatizes about Itself Issue: NF #148, August 5, 2003 Notes on Genetic Engineering Issue: NF #147, July 15, 2003 Flesh and Machines: The Mere Assertions of Rodney Brooks Issue: NF #146, June 24, 2003 Disconnect? Author: Kevin Kelly and Steve Talbott Issue: NF #139, December 3, 2002 What Are the Right Questions? Author: Kevin Kelly and Steve Talbott Issue: NF #136, September 26, 2002 Are Machines Living Things? Author: Kevin Kelly and Steve Talbott Issue: NF #133, June 25, 2002 Media issues -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tales of Wholeness Issue: NF #156, April 20, 2004 Who Needs Media Regulation? Issue: NF #149, August 28, 2003 Does Television Cause Violent Behavior? Wrong Question. Issue: NF #134, July 18, 2002 Why Television is Habit-forming Issue: NF #128, February 12, 2002 Readers Strike Back Issue: NF #124, October 30, 2001 Terror on Film Issue: NF #122, September 18, 2001 The Reality of Appearances Issue: NF #119, March 27, 2001 Confronting the Culture of Disrespect Author: Langdon Winner Issue: NF #115, December 21, 2000 Bhutan and Fiji: The Elusive Influences of Television Issue: NF #93, August 19, 1999 The Columbine Shootings Issue: NF #93, August 19, 1999 The Real Millennium Bug Author: Langdon Winner Issue: NF #76, September 15, 1998 From Couch Potato to Desk Potahto Issue: NF #59, November 4, 1997 The Rhetoric of the Electrical Sublime Issue: NF #47, April 30, 1997 This Phone Call Is Brought to You by Macdonalds Issue: NF #43, March 20, 1997 Radio Cyberdays Issue: NF #37, January 8, 1997 Classroom Revolutions Issue: NF #36, December 19, 1996 Will advertising keep the Net free? Issue: NF #24, July 23, 1996 Television and the Computer In article: "Forgetting ourselves in the age of automatons" Issue: NF #23, July 5, 1996 Linking minds and machines Issue: NF #16, April 22, 1996 Miscellaneous -------------------------------------------------------------------------- High-Minded Machines Issue: NF #161, March 9, 2005 Monkeys and Computer Hygiene Issue: NF #145, May 20, 2003 Telephone Booths Issue: NF #143, April 1, 2003 Dangerous Baby Walkers, Dangerous Software? Issue: NF #96, October 14, 1999 Grounds for Optimism Issue: NF #91, June 23, 1999 Wholeness and a Society without Gender Author: Karla Tonella Issue: NF #84, February 9, 1999 Do They Have Television on Mars? Issue: NF #79, October 27, 1998 Brief Notes Issue: NF #73, June 18, 1998 Popular Superstition and Scientific Fears Issue: NF #71, May 14, 1998 Langdon Winner Introduces His New Column Issue: NF #69, April 14, 1998 Choose Your Battlefield Issue: NF #47, April 30, 1997 How NETFUTURE Happens Issue: NF #47, April 30, 1997 Escape from Email Hell Issue: NF #45, April 9, 1997 Death of a gyppo Author: Robert Leo Heilman Issue: NF #24, July 23, 1996 An antidote to computer-thinking Author: Valdemar W. Setzer Issue: NF #22, June 20, 1996 Nanotechnology -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Practical Reductionism Issue: NF #163, May 13, 2005 Science Policy and the Push for Nanotechnology Author: Langdon Winner Issue: NF #145, May 20, 2003 Orality and literacy -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Image Ascendent, or Descendent? Issue: NF #109, August 3, 2000 The Oral Foundations of Learning Author: David Abram Issue: NF #96, October 14, 1999 Surfing Ancient, Homeric Fields Issue: NF #44, April 2, 1997 Personal relationships -------------------------------------------------------------------------- More on Email Issue: NF #124, October 30, 2001 Still Disconnecting Issue: NF #122, September 18, 2001 How to Prepare for a Frenetic World Author: Peter Denning Issue: NF #122, September 18, 2001 Quit Bashing the Media Lab Author: Amy Bruckman Issue: NF #122, September 18, 2001 Reply to Amy Bruckman Author: Langdon Winner Issue: NF #122, September 18, 2001 Why I Have Disconnected from Email Issue: NF #121, July 27, 2001 Whatever Happened to the Electronic Cottage? Author: Langdon Winner Issue: NF #121, July 27, 2001 On Forgetting to Wear Boots Issue: NF #117, February 1, 2001 Confronting the Culture of Disrespect Author: Langdon Winner Issue: NF #115, December 21, 2000 The Many Voices of Destiny Issue: NF #102, February 16, 2000 On Giving a Christmas Gift to My Niece Author: Wendell Piez Issue: NF #81, December 10, 1998 Privacy and Prejudice Issue: NF #77, October 6, 1998 Trust Me Issue: NF #66, February 24, 1998 Imprisoning Criminals in Software Issue: NF #35, December 5, 1996 Privacy in an age of data (part 2) Issue: NF #29, October 17, 1996 Prejudice In article: "Forgetting ourselves in the age of automatons" Issue: NF #23, July 5, 1996 The Internet As Terminator Issue: NF #3, January 4, 1996 The Strong Pull of MUDs In article: "The Phenomenology of Computing -- Two Tales from the Net" Issue: NF #1, December 14, 1995 Physiology and electronic media -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Why Television is Habit-forming Issue: NF #128, February 12, 2002 Amusing Ourselves into a Fit Issue: NF #63, January 6, 1998 Polarity -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Editor's Note Issue: NF #84, February 9, 1999 Want to Globalize? Then Localize! Issue: NF #84, February 9, 1999 Please Don't Love Me Only for My Architecture Issue: NF #84, February 9, 1999 Freeman Dyson on the Survival of Craftsmanship Issue: NF #84, February 9, 1999 Brief Notes on Polarity Issue: NF #84, February 9, 1999 There is No Such Thing as Information Issue: NF #84, February 9, 1999 The Great Knowledge Implosion Issue: NF #84, February 9, 1999 Politics and social action -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Who Needs Media Regulation? Issue: NF #149, August 28, 2003 Science Policy and the Push for Nanotechnology Author: Langdon Winner Issue: NF #145, May 20, 2003 Are Corporations to Blame? Issue: NF #143, April 1, 2003 Information Is Cheap, Conversation Is Dear In article: "Does the Future Compute?" Issue: NF #142, February 25, 2003 Complexity, Trust and Terror Author: Langdon Winner Issue: NF #137, October 22, 2002 Should Genetically Modified Foods Be Labeled? Author: Craig Holdrege Issue: NF #135, August 29, 2002 Evil Issue: NF #129, March 12, 2002 Our Culture's Crisis of Transition In article: "Books Received" Issue: NF #128, February 12, 2002 Beyond Elite Globalization Issue: NF #120, April 24, 2001 Bill Gates' New Concerns Issue: NF #115, December 21, 2000 An Education That Transcends Information Author: Carol Cole Issue: NF #107, June 1, 2000 Will the Internet Be Bad for Democracy? Author: Eli M. Noam Issue: NF #91, June 23, 1999 Political Change In article: "How Technology Co-opted the Good (Part 2)" Issue: NF #65, February 10, 1998 How about a Moratorium on Internet Surveys? Issue: NF #63, January 6, 1998 The Digital Citizen: More Nonsense from *Wired* Issue: NF #61, December 1 1997 Computer-prompted Senate? Issue: NF #59, November 4, 1997 Sue the Bastards Issue: NF #46, April 18, 1997 How Computers Can Help You Win Over Your Senator Issue: NF #46, April 18, 1997 What Lies Beyond Multiculturalism? Issue: NF #42, March 6, 1997 Paul Edwards on the Meaning of the Computer Issue: NF #41, February 20, 1997 Chinese Cookies Issue: NF #40, February 5, 1997 A quick guide to the politics of cyberspace, pt. 5 Author: Richard Sclove Issue: NF #15, April 11, 1996 A quick guide to the politics of cyberspace, pt. 4 Author: Richard Sclove Issue: NF #10, March 19, 1996 Communes, the Net, and self-governance Issue: NF #9, March 11, 1996 A quick guide to the politics of cyberspace, pt. 3 Author: Richard Sclove Issue: NF #8, February 26, 1996 A quick guide to the politics of cyberspace, pt. 2 Author: Richard Sclove Issue: NF #7, February 14, 1996 A quick guide to the politics of cyberspace Author: Richard Sclove Issue: NF #6, February 6, 1996 The Great Crusade Against Censorship Issue: NF #2, December 21, 1995 Privacy and security -------------------------------------------------------------------------- No Place to Hide In article: "Does the Future Compute?" Issue: NF #142, February 25, 2003 Complexity, Trust and Terror Author: Langdon Winner Issue: NF #137, October 22, 2002 High Noon at the DB Corral Issue: NF #132, May 21, 2002 Technology and Human Responsibility Issue: NF #115, December 21, 2000 Don't Be Hysterical about Privacy Author: Kevin Kelly Issue: NF #78, October 15, 1998 Privacy and Prejudice Issue: NF #77, October 6, 1998 Cryptography Is Fuel on the Fire, Not a Solution Author: Don Davis Issue: NF #67, March 12, 1998 Breaking-in Is Not Hard to Do Issue: NF #66, February 24, 1998 Trust Me Issue: NF #66, February 24, 1998 If Big Brother Has Been Dismembered, Are We Safe? Issue: NF #61, December 1 1997 Big Brother in the Bathroom? Issue: NF #55, September 9, 1997 The New Money: Anonymous But Countable Issue: NF #42, March 6, 1997 Dorothy Denning on Cryptography Export Controls Issue: NF #39, January 29, 1997 Insecure Little Old Ladies Issue: NF #38, January 16, 1997 Arguing about privacy Author: Phil Agre Issue: NF #32, November 10, 1996 Response to Agre Issue: NF #32, November 10, 1996 Privacy in an age of data (part 3) Issue: NF #30, October 24, 1996 Privacy in an age of data (part 2) Issue: NF #29, October 17, 1996 Privacy in an age of data Issue: NF #28, September 25, 1996 Productivity and computers -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Who Says Computers Are Becoming More Intuitive? Issue: NF #128, February 12, 2002 The Internet and Competition Issue: NF #75, July 30, 1998 Is the Productive Computer Still AWOL? Issue: NF #55, September 9, 1997 Postscript to `The Ultimate Worker' Issue: NF #51, June 18, 1997 Financial Fictions: The View from a Bank Author: David L. Goldsteen Issue: NF #51, June 18, 1997 The Ultimate Worker Issue: NF #50, June 4, 1997 Still Looking for the Productive Computer Issue: NF #45, April 9, 1997 Looking up to Government Issue: NF #40, February 5, 1997 Things That Bite Back: Tenner on Productivity Issue: NF #37, January 8, 1997 The illusion of online efficiency Issue: NF #20, June 4, 1996 High-tech and productivity Issue: NF #19, May 16, 1996 Psychology, identity, and the Net -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Deceiving Virtues of Technology Issue: NF #125, November 15, 2001 Why Johnny is a Cynic Issue: NF #86, March 11, 1999 Trust Me: I'm Vulnerable Issue: NF #83, January 19, 1999 Multitasking, or Attention Deficit Disorder? Author: John Thienes Issue: NF #76, September 15, 1998 On the Importance of Our Powers of Attention Author: Gavin Ferriby Issue: NF #76, September 15, 1998 Multitasking Ourselves to Death Issue: NF #75, July 30, 1998 Marilyn Monroe and Our Virtuality Author: Bryce Muir Issue: NF #75, July 30, 1998 Technology as Infantilism Issue: NF #67, March 12, 1998 How Do Justice Department Prosecutors Differ from Lara Croft? Issue: NF #65, February 10, 1998 You Look **Very** Nice Today Issue: NF #57, October 7, 1997 Are Our Brains Changing? Issue: NF #54, July 30, 1997 The Market for Human Suffering Author: Mark Grundy Issue: NF #45, April 9, 1997 Surfing Ancient, Homeric Fields Issue: NF #44, April 2, 1997 What Turkle misses Author: Sue Barnes Issue: NF #14, April 2, 1996 Can the `End of Education' Be `Life on the Screen'? Author: Lowell Monke Issue: NF #9, March 11, 1996 The Internet As Terminator Issue: NF #3, January 4, 1996 Escaping the Computer's Pull through Ironic Immersion In article: "The Phenomenology of Computing -- Two Tales from the Net" Issue: NF #1, December 14, 1995 The Strong Pull of MUDs In article: "The Phenomenology of Computing -- Two Tales from the Net" Issue: NF #1, December 14, 1995 Quantitative and statistical side of computer -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CyberTrackers: Bushmen and Information Technology Issue: NF #154, February 12, 2004 Quantity and statistics -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Editor's Note Issue: NF #83, January 19, 1999 Don't Malign Complexity Author: Alex Rice Issue: NF #75, July 30, 1998 Complex, Emergent, Self-organizing Nonsense Issue: NF #74, July 9, 1998 Information Trumps Reality Issue: NF #68, March 31, 1998 Beyond the Dreams of Avarice (Part 3) Issue: NF #68, March 31, 1998 Machines Are Extensions of Us--So Stand Clear! Issue: NF #66, February 24, 1998 Neural Nets, Stethoscopes, and Patients Issue: NF #57, October 7, 1997 The Vacuity of Information Issue: NF #54, July 30, 1997 Imprisoning Criminals in Software Issue: NF #35, December 5, 1996 Scattered mind -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Where Does the User End and PowerPoint Begin? Issue: NF #153, January 6, 2004 How Can We Hold the Balance? Issue: NF #126, December 18, 2001 The ATM as Commercial Television Issue: NF #88, April 16, 1999 Cluttering Our Lives for Profit Issue: NF #86, March 11, 1999 Finding Ourselves in Silence Issue: NF #85, February 25, 1999 The Blessings of a Hurricane Issue: NF #85, February 25, 1999 Multitasking, or Attention Deficit Disorder? Author: John Thienes Issue: NF #76, September 15, 1998 On the Importance of Our Powers of Attention Author: Gavin Ferriby Issue: NF #76, September 15, 1998 Multitasking Ourselves to Death Issue: NF #75, July 30, 1998 What Price for Our Selves? Issue: NF #47, April 30, 1997 This Phone Call Is Brought to You by Macdonalds Issue: NF #43, March 20, 1997 Will advertising keep the Net free? Issue: NF #24, July 23, 1996 Sex -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sex, the Internet, and Educational Reform Issue: NF #132, May 21, 2002 Sexuality and Information In article: "Does Information Exist?" Issue: NF #58, October 22, 1997 Censorship, Kids, and the ACLU Issue: NF #46, April 18, 1997 Dreams of a Global Village Issue: NF #37, January 8, 1997 Indiscretions Author: Frank Willison Issue: NF #36, December 19, 1996 Sex on the Internet Issue: NF #35, December 5, 1996 Standards and open systems -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Education by Acronym Issue: NF #104, March 21, 2000 Can Open Standards Suffocate Us? Issue: NF #82, January 5, 1999 Who's Killing Higher Education? (Or is It Suicide?) Issue: NF #78, October 15, 1998 Locking Ourselves in to Standards In article: "Editor's note" Issue: NF #32, November 10, 1996 Technological efficiency -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Perfecting the Dance, Forgetting the Dancer Issue: NF #150, October 7, 2003 The Internet: Reflections on Our Present Discontents Issue: NF #150, October 7, 2003 Raising Hogs Unimaginatively Issue: NF #147, July 15, 2003 Who Says Computers Are Becoming More Intuitive? Issue: NF #128, February 12, 2002 An Entomologist's Killing Fields Issue: NF #124, October 30, 2001 Technology, Animals, and People Issue: NF #114, November 30, 2000 The Pigs of Iowa Author: Lowell Monke Issue: NF #114, November 30, 2000 Who's Killing Higher Education? (Or is It Suicide?) Issue: NF #78, October 15, 1998 Missing the Mark on Asimov Author: Rob Haas Issue: NF #70, April 30, 1998 When Work Disappears Issue: NF #69, April 14, 1998 Chains of Logic Issue: NF #64, January 20, 1998 Saying Nothing As Fast As Possible Issue: NF #63, January 6, 1998 The Global Economic Crunch: Is More Efficiency What We Need? Issue: NF #62, December 16 1997 How Computers Can Help You Win Over Your Senator Issue: NF #46, April 18, 1997 The New Money: Anonymous But Countable Issue: NF #42, March 6, 1997 Things That Bite Back: Tenner on Productivity Issue: NF #37, January 8, 1997 The illusion of online efficiency Issue: NF #20, June 4, 1996 Web chaos and personal responsibility Author: Dale Lehman Issue: NF #7, February 14, 1996 The Fundamental Deceit of Technology Issue: NF #1, December 14, 1995 Technological inevitability -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Does the Future Compute? Issue: NF #142, February 25, 2003 The Trouble with Ubiquitous Technology Pushers (Part 3) Issue: NF #112, October 5, 2000 Hot Property in Leedsville: The Mumford House Up for Sale Author: Langdon Winner Issue: NF #109, August 3, 2000 Automobiles: On the Road to Nowhere Issue: NF #105, April 18, 2000 Why Do We Celebrate Change While Refusing It? Issue: NF #104, March 21, 2000 Alien Technologies That Operate on Us Issue: NF #98, November 23, 1999 What Makes a Technology Inevitable? Issue: NF #95, September 23, 1999 The Fascination with Ubiquitous Control Issue: NF #95, September 23, 1999 Toward Appropriate Behavior by Objects Author: Alan Wexelblat Issue: NF #95, September 23, 1999 Response to Alan Wexelblat Author: Langdon Winner Issue: NF #95, September 23, 1999 Missing the `Old' Don Norman Author: Steve Baumgarten Issue: NF #95, September 23, 1999 The Voluntary Complexity Movement Author: Langdon Winner Issue: NF #94, September 14, 1999 Technological neutrality -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Where We Have Come To (Part 1) Issue: NF #165, October 25, 2005 Flights of Optimism Issue: NF #152, December 9, 2003 Technology Does Not Make Societies More Vulnerable Author: Michael Goldhaber Issue: NF #138, November 7, 2002 Response to Goldhaber Author: Langdon Winner Issue: NF #138, November 7, 2002 Complexity, Trust and Terror Author: Langdon Winner Issue: NF #137, October 22, 2002 Can Open Standards Suffocate Us? Issue: NF #82, January 5, 1999 Technological Zealotry: Heads I Win, Tails You Lose Issue: NF #73, June 18, 1998 Ties That Bind Issue: NF #72, June 2, 1998 Are Unintended Consequences Really Unintended? Issue: NF #71, May 14, 1998 El Nino and Technological Determinism Issue: NF #67, March 12, 1998 Machines Are Extensions of Us--So Stand Clear! Issue: NF #66, February 24, 1998 Is Technological Improvement What We Want? (Part 3) Issue: NF #48, May 14, 1997 Is Technological Improvement What We Want? (Part 2) Issue: NF #40, February 5, 1997 Is Technological Improvement What We Want? Issue: NF #38, January 16, 1997 Do Computers Kill People? Issue: NF #37, January 8, 1997 Of computers, both electronic and social Issue: NF #26, August 17, 1996 The Future of Freedom Issue: NF #22, June 20, 1996 The Character of Technology In article: "Computers at School: The Web and the Plow" Author: Lowell Monke Issue: NF #19, May 16, 1996 Stirrups and social change Author: Susan B. Barnes Issue: NF #13, March 28, 1996 Every tool is an obstacle Issue: NF #12, March 26, 1996 In (partial) defense of Peter Quince Issue: NF #9, March 11, 1996 Technological optimism -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Flights of Optimism Issue: NF #152, December 9, 2003 The Evolution of Progress Issue: NF #136, September 26, 2002 From Baby Walkers to High Tech: The Anti-developmental Stance Issue: NF #135, August 29, 2002 What Are Technology's Gifts? Author: Kevin Kelly and Steve Talbott Issue: NF #130, April 2, 2002 Technology and the Larger Picture Issue: NF #124, October 30, 2001 Double-edged Technologies Issue: NF #124, October 30, 2001 Technology and Human Responsibility Issue: NF #115, December 21, 2000 The Nasdaq as Santa Claus? Issue: NF #114, November 30, 2000 Is Growing Pessimism about the Internet a Cause for Optimism? Issue: NF #113, October 31, 2000 Of Vision Quests, Gender, and Boredom Issue: NF #109, August 3, 2000 Bill Joy's Warning from on High Issue: NF #104, March 21, 2000 On the New Eugenics Issue: NF #102, February 16, 2000 The Negativism of NETFUTURE Issue: NF #91, June 23, 1999 When Faith in Computers is Boundless Issue: NF #87, March 30, 1999 Does the Computer Eliminate Boring Work? Issue: NF #77, October 6, 1998 The Internet and Competition Issue: NF #75, July 30, 1998 Beyond The Year 2000: Taking the Long View Author: Jeff Wright Issue: NF #70, April 30, 1998 Missing the Mark on Asimov Author: Rob Haas Issue: NF #70, April 30, 1998 When Work Disappears Issue: NF #69, April 14, 1998 Disfigured Hope: Arthur Zajonc on Technology's Promise Issue: NF #62, December 16 1997 From Couch Potato to Desk Potahto Issue: NF #59, November 4, 1997 Does Technology Set Us Free? Issue: NF #59, November 4, 1997 Methuselah on Wheels Issue: NF #58, October 22, 1997 Does Technology Make Us Blind? Issue: NF #58, October 22, 1997 Toward the Great Singularity (Part 3) Issue: NF #53, July 16, 1997 Toward the Great Singularity (Part 1) Issue: NF #51, June 18, 1997 Wow! (again) Issue: NF #48, May 14, 1997 Waiting for the Revolution Issue: NF #47, April 30, 1997 The Rhetoric of the Electrical Sublime Issue: NF #47, April 30, 1997 Seeking Balance Issue: NF #42, March 6, 1997 The End of Programming? Issue: NF #41, February 20, 1997 From Universal Access To Universal Paranoia Issue: NF #39, January 29, 1997 Is Technological Improvement What We Want? Issue: NF #38, January 16, 1997 The Mystical Properties of Zero Issue: NF #37, January 8, 1997 Radio Cyberdays Issue: NF #37, January 8, 1997 Classroom Revolutions Issue: NF #36, December 19, 1996 The Net and Perdition Issue: NF #36, December 19, 1996 Gildered Dreams Issue: NF #36, December 19, 1996 The Fundamental Deceit of Technology Issue: NF #1, December 14, 1995 Ubiquitous computing -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Trouble with Ubiquitous Technology Pushers (Part 3) Issue: NF #112, October 5, 2000 The Trouble with Ubiquitous Technology Pushers (Part 2) Issue: NF #101, January 27, 2000 Criticize Out of Love, Not Resentment Author: Kevin Kelly Issue: NF #101, January 27, 2000 Toward a More Balanced View of the Media Lab Author: Amy Bruckman Issue: NF #101, January 27, 2000 Too Much Complaining Author: Bob Gaughan Issue: NF #101, January 27, 2000 An Overdue, Grace-filled Literacy Author: Tom Mahon Issue: NF #101, January 27, 2000 Of Gadgets and Real Needs Issue: NF #100, January 6, 2000 The Trouble with Ubiquitous Technology Pushers (Part 1) Issue: NF #100, January 6, 2000 What a Computer Can and Cannot Supply Author: Shyam Oberoi Issue: NF #100, January 6, 2000 Computing Should Relate to Life Author: Gail Campana Issue: NF #100, January 6, 2000 Cheap Shots at Ubiquitous Computing Author: Alan Wexelblat Issue: NF #98, November 23, 1999 We'll Get What We Choose (and I'll Choose Convenience) Author: Thomas Leavitt Issue: NF #98, November 23, 1999 Borgmann on the Wonders of the Information Age Issue: NF #96, October 14, 1999 When Living Becomes an Inconvenience Author: Phil Walsh Issue: NF #96, October 14, 1999 On Appropriate Behavior for Machines Author: Victor Grey Issue: NF #96, October 14, 1999 The Caller ID Arms Race Author: Steve Baumgarten Issue: NF #96, October 14, 1999 If Computers Behaved Like Toilets Author: David Miller Issue: NF #96, October 14, 1999 The Fascination with Ubiquitous Control Issue: NF #95, September 23, 1999 Toward Appropriate Behavior by Objects Author: Alan Wexelblat Issue: NF #95, September 23, 1999 Response to Alan Wexelblat Author: Langdon Winner Issue: NF #95, September 23, 1999 The Voluntary Complexity Movement Author: Langdon Winner Issue: NF #94, September 14, 1999 Virtual Community -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Net and Perdition Issue: NF #36, December 19, 1996 Virtual reality -------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Giving Rats a Virtual Life Issue: NF #132, May 21, 2002 Readers Strike Back Issue: NF #124, October 30, 2001 Terror on Film Issue: NF #122, September 18, 2001 The Reality of Appearances Issue: NF #119, March 27, 2001 Mark Pesce's Earth Toy Issue: NF #107, June 1, 2000 Virtuality and the Atomization of Experience Issue: NF #87, March 30, 1999 Finding Ourselves in Silence Issue: NF #85, February 25, 1999 Breaking through to Reality Issue: NF #81, December 10, 1998 Year 2000 problem -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Real Millennium Bug Author: Langdon Winner Issue: NF #76, September 15, 1998 Beyond The Year 2000: Taking the Long View Author: Jeff Wright Issue: NF #70, April 30, 1998 How Computers May Promote IRS Reform Issue: NF #69, April 14, 1998 Chains of Logic Issue: NF #64, January 20, 1998 Year 2000 Apocalypse? Issue: NF #44, April 2, 1997 Allowing the World to Change Issue: NF #44, April 2, 1997 The Mystical Properties of Zero Issue: NF #37, January 8, 1997 Software Meltdown in the Year 2000? Issue: NF #35, December 5, 1996Last revision: Sep 17, 2013Return to beginning of index Goto NETFUTURE main page