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TECHNOLOGY INDEX

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The Absurd Behavior of Electrons. Ceci Lumley. Computers and consciousness.
Amenhotep: A Wounded Sonnet. Denise Hawkins.
Architectural Conundrum. Robert L. Tufford on our antediluvian structures.
ARSE (Akashic Records Search Engine). Breakthrough technology from Bangladesh.
Astronomical Pornography. Marcel P. Snapfinger et al. (with midi).
AUDACITIES. Cultural one-liner. Slideshow with music (1:12).
Blue Red. Three wee sentences to help with today's synamptic re-wiring. You're welcome.
Cars & Crystal Balls. Pedkop Bumbera. Reading the future by looking at cars.
Cars & Crystal Balls: Update. Pedkop Bumbera rethinks his vision of the future.
Caveat Cyberpunk! Joel Fluker glimpses a not-so-pretty probable future.
cc: God. John Mimbres gets optically gushy about WinAmp and its visualizations.***
Chronic Chronism. Rean Rhyne and the linguistic never/everland of quantum physics.
Coming in on a Wing and a Prayer. 7 photos celebrating the Wright Brothers' centenary.
The Crib Makers. J.P. Astraeu. Finding hope in the failure of SETI.***
C U B E. Summing it all, or at least a lot of it, up in one image and a midi (4:55).
Dr. Strangelove Redux. Cassandra & the Bomb(s).
Dwarfs, Giants, and the 21st Century. Jason Twinhaft on the dangers of predicting the world of 2100.
The D-words. What happens when Chike Boggus stops for food on I-10.
Ear Manna from the Heavens. Sawyer Brown gets carried away by satellite radio.
Experiment with Time. A tribute to J.W. Dunne.
Future Plot. The rising curve of patents issued.
Future Tensed. Joel Fluker on prophecies past, present, and future.
The Ghost in the Machine, Part II. Edward Hothi shivers as he thinks about the emergence of computer consciousness.
Global Computer Usage. Insight into the SETI@home stats.
A Glimpse of Futures Past. Rean Rhyne. What 1969 thought a 2001 airport would look like.
God's Big Acre. Gazdagy Alamance's modest take on the Internet.
The Golden Age of the Internet. Sawyer Brown. Is THIS the digital good old days?
The Good Old Days. Choice quotations from the halcyon days of the "New Economy."
The Great Fallacy. Harriet Lobdell. Why both toys and ideas leave us with empty hearts.
Happy Birthday, Martin Waldseemuller!
Headlights in the Darkness. Pedkop Bumbera finds two reasons for hope in current car design.
The Healing of America. US and wilderness.
Hearing Is Believing. Douglas Milburn on Alexander Sokurov's The Russian Ark.
Here Comes Ugly. Pedkop Bumbera is really worried about next year's cars.
Home PC Ownership Statistics in the USA.
Huang's Law. Douglas Huang. At last, the truth about the Information Age, in one sentence.
Inferences. Added to The Chiliastic Hideon.
Interfaces. Angus Verspeeten on the world after McLuhan (that means us).
Interior Trends. Happy with your cubicle? No? Find out why.
It's the Ontogeny Recapitulating the Phylogeny, Stupid!
Lest We Forget. Moore's Law in action: A page from the cyber-past.
Lethe Lite. Cassandra. What's really wrong with television.
Lightning: 2 Questions. Bloce Kaibob on NASA's global map of lightning strikes.
A Little Thought Experiment for the Rich & Powerful. Chardo Blue Plains gigs 'em again.
Mars II: The Bill and George Show. Doc Cuddy on the Gates and Bush reading habits.
M.U.L.E. The Humanity and Elegance of an Antique Computer Game. John Mimbres.
Les naivités dangereuses. Rean Rhyne. The dangerous misuse, and death, of words.
Milburn's Razor. An addendum to Occam's Razor, for the new millennium.
More Galaxies Than You Can Shake a Telescope At. Slideshow of Hubble Space Telescope photos, with midi (6:47).
The New Frankenstein. Piongo Pisgah. Hidden digital dangers.
The New Olduvai Theory. Cassandra's introduction and link to an overlooked keynote speech at a recent geologists' meeting.
On Disappearance. Reppy Duart tries to ponder the Really Big Question.
One Library to Go, Please. Rean Rhyne explains how to make your own audio books, cheap.
Page Rage. Doc Cuddy. Why digital books are so slow in coming.
The Physics Question of the 21st Century.
Pong et seq. Douglas Milburn. Videogames and the origins of consciousness.
Potholes on the Infobahn. Robert L. Tufford. Surfer's lament.
Practitioners. A few words to the wise concerning kultural kwiksand.
PS, I Love You! In Praise of Photoshop. Jason Twinhaft.
Reader's Delight. Our most-used links for keeping up.
Really BIG Mo. Doc Cuddy. Tomorrow's out-of-date before it gets here.
Rules of Human Cultural History. A photograph. Of a wall. With words.
Satellite Radio One More Time. Sawyer Brown tries again to explain his enthusaism.
Sillinesses. Revered smartpants get their comeuppance (sort of).
Technological Utopians of the World, Unite! Rean Rhyne argues for a full global stomach.
Ten Miles to School, Twenty Feet of Snow. Computer user's lament.
There's No Substitute for Cubic Decibels. Rean Rhyne on satellite radio.
Thinking the Unthinkable. Herman Kahn's "escalation ladder."
Tip for Would-be Paradigm Shifters.
To F--- or to Be F---ed, That Is the 21st-Century Question. Angus Verspeeting on what to buy with $3,000.
21st Century Mandala. A little graphic hint of global-warming things to come.
The Ultimate Gadget. Rean Rhyne. In The Chiliastic Hideon.
What's Going on Here? Hope for the hopeless, thanks to Albrecht Altdorfer, with a little help from his friends at Magellan's Log.
Writing Funny About Cars. In Praise of Tom McCahill, John Phillips, and Jeremy Clarkson (Among Others). Pedkop Bumbera.
Writ in Stone. Seven marmoreal tablets from a mythical city.

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