*the network >> life inside the universal machine
by ira nayman

"The seeming paradox is that digital communications facilitates both international and local action. It only appears to be a paradox, though: look a little deeper, and you find that in both cases, communication facilitates organization. Scale is irrelevant. "

   *the image >> lights, camera, action! rolling... by kimberley may maurice

*trends >> motion zapping megatrends
by jacob Ørsted nielsen

"Perhaps my writing only demonstrates a consciousness misled. It demonstrates a motion zapping megatrend. A trend within the trend."

   *behind blown eyes >> interview with the kid by john shirley

   *education >> sweet perspiration: summer study by ron heacock

   *vocabulary >> thought crimes and the first words that represent them by viki reed

*time >> march of time
by gail kavanagh

"I am certain one day people will look back on our enlightened age and conclude that we were an ignorant and deluded bunch of savages--much as we look back on the Middle Ages today."

   *ten seconds >> the first ten seconds by g.j. lau

*religion >> eternal? perception
by chris jenkins

"Probably the most volatile of these perceptions is our understanding of God. This perception has divided more people since the beginning of time than any other."

*bill joy's future >> sex: technology's trojan horse
by thomas j. sanders

"I wish to issue a warning concerning the real route our machines will take to manage their complete merger with mankind. I think it is likely to be a merger rather than an annihilation."

   *comics >> making a mini-comic by austin english

   *jungs aion >> the faint light in the darkness by john fraim

   *music >> who's buying the music? by stephen van esch

"the clash of ideas brings forth the spark of truth"