Index
FUTUREMEDIA
22 Introducing future Media
by Taylor Barcroft & Allan Lundell
22 News Briefs: 32-bit Color, Virtual RAM, and more
by Taylor Barcroft
25 "Cray on a Chip": Micro Supercomputing Arrives
by Taylor Barcroft
26 Hyperwebs: 21st Century Media
by Wes Thomas
28 DTV---DeskTop Video: A Special future Media Report
by Allan Lundell
34 The Picture Phone Camcorder Connection
by Allan Lundell & Taylor Barcroft
35i U-force Takes Controlol of Nintendo
by Allan Lundell
51 Music of the Double Helix
by Jas. Morgan & Cathy Moe Murphy
FRONTIER TECH
16 Is it Live or is it Autodesk? Cyberspace Rising!
18 A man & His Dog: Cryonics Today
19 3-D Real Time X-Rays wiith the Digiray Reverse Geometry System
MIRRORSHADES AND MANIFESTOS
52 Leary on Gibson: Here Come the Quarks
Evangelist Leary proclaims Gibson "Quark of the Decade."
58 High Tech High Life---William Gibson & Timothy Leary in conversation
Cyberpunk mainman meets cyberdelic godfather. "That was no interview---that was a drunken business meeting!"
67 Rise & fall of Max Headroom: a conversation with Peter Wagg and Steve Roberts
by Michael Synergy
Creators of the original British Max Headroom had more in mind than selling Coca-Cola.
74 Mutations in the 4th Dimension: a conversation with Rudy Rucker
by Faustin Bray
Rudy Rucker, mathemutation,hangs ten on the edge. "How fast are you? How dense?"
88 Call it Revolutionary Parasitism: a conversation with John Shrley
by Jude Milhon
Cyberpunk point man, John Shirley, on cyberpolitics & techno-subversion.
98 Coming in under the Radar: a conversation with Bruce Sterling
by Jude Milhon
Schismatrix author and Mirrorshades editor winces at the "cyber-word."
114 Hurtling Towards the Singularity: a conversation with Vernor Vinge
by Michael Synergy
Vernor Vinge, the computer underground's favorite SF writer on the post-human future.
HACKERS AND CRACKERS
50 Some Good Things to Say about Computer Viruses
by Allan Lundell
Let's evesdrop on a few hackers at Hacker Haven in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
86 The Sermon on the Monitor: a conversation with St. Silicon
by Allan Lundell
The head quantiff of the Church of Heuristic Information Processing holds forth.
94 The Last of the Hackhers: a conversation with Richard Stallman
by R. U. Sirius
Richard Stallman of the free Software Foundation describes the original hacker ethic.
102 Beyond Hacker Machismo: a conversation with Todd Rundgren
by Jas. Morgan, Morgan Russell & Steve Ananda
Todd's become a major figure in software development. Here he talks about the philosophy behind his work.
105 Extensions of Reality
by Todd Rundgren
Edited by Jude Milhon and Jas. Morgan
The evolution of computer technology. Todd Rundgren at a Thursday colloquium at Autodesk.
108 Designer Beings: a conversation with Durk Pearson & Sandy Shaw
by Jude Milhon
Saving one's skin and intelligence increase agents.
120 Virusgate: The Spook in the Machine
by Lady Ada Lovelace
Was the Internet Virus a cyberpunk prank or a National Security Agency experiment?
124 From Here To Alternity: John Lilly & Jeffrey Mishlove in conversation
Revealing reconnaissance notes from semeone who's been out there.
134 Terminal Disorders
by Morgan Russell
Account-ability in the Cyber Age
136 ATM's & The Rise of the Hacker Leisure Class
by Morgan Russell
A literary excursion into the high tech demimonde.
152 Have I Missed the Revolution?
by Lee Felsenstein
Original hacker spouts off.
MONDO ART & KULTUR
20 George Coates Takes SMARTS "Through the Looking Glass"
80 Micro Chic: Artificial Intelligence To Wear
by Zena Kruzick
What makes jewelry sharp? And bawdy-wear intelligent?
84 On the importance of Being Andy
by R. U. Sirius & Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol was the first comedian of virtual realities. Including excerpts from his infamous "The Philosphy"
118 Light Monks On Hope: the Gyuto Monks
Mickey Hart interviewed by Faustin Bray
Tibetan chant and sound sculpting.
142 Bet on it: Cyber Video Punk Performance
by Brooks Landon
Why cyberpunk Science Fiction can't survive the cyberpunk age.
REVIEWS
149 Re/Search: "Incredibly Strange Films" and "Pranks"
by John Shirley
151 "Valis" by Todd Machover and "Daydream Nation" by Sonic Youth
by Gracie Zarkov
COLUMNS
36 Fringe Science: Radio Shack Meets Star Trek--An Artificial Awareness Module
by Nick Herbert
A call for the realization of self-conscious robots and PK-operated household appliances.
40 Strange Loops: Cyber Evolution Montage
by Robert Anton Wilson
Mind-tickling evidence from the illuminated master of conspiracy theories.
46 Input Output: The Roots of Personal Computing
by David Bunnell
How scruffy rock and roll hippies started the information revolution.
48 Psychopharmacognosticon: The Cognitive Agent as Cyberpunk Godfather
by Therence McKenna
The contradictions of Marshall McLuhan, visionary philosopher and conservative man.
146 Better Brains Through Electricity: Ted Alsup--Mind Machine Hacker
interview by R. U. Sirius
DEPARTMENTS
12 Letters
158 Contributor's Profiles
160 Abbie Hoffman's Last Words
