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Home/Magazine Archive/February 1997 (Vol. 40, No. 2)

Table of Contents

Technology in bloom: implications for the next 50 years

Larry Press
Pages 11-17

Cyberspace 2000: dealing with information overload

Hal Berghel
Pages 19-24

ACM 97: speakers corner

Nathan Myhrvold
Pages 27-28

The next 50 years

Diane Crawford
Pages 29-ff.

The body electric

Gordon Bell
Pages 30-32

Hardware, software, and infoware

Tim O'Reilly
Pages 33-34

Education and jobs in the digital world

Esther Dyson
Pages 35-36

A time of transition

Danny Hillis
Pages 37-39

Pervasive information systems

Joel Birnbaum
Pages 40-41

Garage cinema and the future of media technology

Marc Davis
Pages 42-48

How to surf the technology waves we created

Dennis Tsichritzis
Pages 49-54

The frontier between us

Jaron Lanier
Pages 55-56

World-wide computer

Tim Berners-Lee
Pages 57-58

Between hope and fear

Ben Shneiderman
Pages 59-62

Post-WIMP user interfaces

Andries van Dam
Pages 63-67

The best of all possible worlds

John Perry Barlow
Pages 68-74

Better democracy through technology

Brock N. Meeks
Pages 75-78

The digital revolution in retrospect

Bruce Sterling
Pages 79-ff.

Asleep at the keyboard

Steve Talbott
Pages 80-82

Directing policy-making beyond the Net's metaphor

Jerry Berman, Daniel J. Weitzner
Pages 83-84

The right to read

Richard Stallman
Pages 85-87

What will happen in the next 50 years?

Ted Selker
Pages 88-89

Crush and crash: logic of a terrible tomorrow

Theodor Holm Nelson
Pages 90-91

Sensors: the next wave of innovation

Paul Saffo
Pages 92-97

Looking for a humane interface: will computers ever become easy to use?

Jef Raskin
Pages 98-101

The past and future history of the Internet

Barry M. Leiner, Vinton G. Cerf, David D. Clark, Robert E. Kahn, Leonard Kleinrock, Daniel C. Lynch, Jon Postel, Lawrence G. Roberts, Stephen S. Wolff
Pages 102-108

Look in the spaces for tomorrow's innovations

Wm. A. Wulf
Pages 109-111

The microprocessor: engine of the technology revolution

Gordon E. Moore
Pages 112-114

Globalizing business, education, culture through the Internet

Nabil Adam, Baruch Awerbuch, Jacob Slonim, Peter Wegner, Yelena Yesha
Pages 115-121

My computer-related wish list for the next 50 years

Charlie Rosen
Pages 122-124

Spinning Webs into the 21st century

CORPORATE Sachem Web Slingers
Pages 125-128

Software engineering: stretching the limits of complexity

Nancy G. Leveson
Pages 129-131

A new social contract for research

Peter J. Denning
Pages 132-134

Communications technology and its impact by 2010

David J. Farber
Pages 135-138

Database research faces the information explosion

Henry F. Korth, Abraham Silberschatz
Pages 139-142

Inside risks: Hopes for fewer risks?

Peter G. Neumann
Page 170