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From att!compuserve.com!71750.2413 Sun Sep  8 08:21:46 EDT 1991
Date: 08 Sep 91 08:21:23 EDT
From: "Russell E. Whitaker" <>
To: <>, <>
Subject: September Scientific American

To: >INTERNET:;>INTERNET:
9 September 1991
[posting to sci.nanotech and cryonet]

The September *Scientific American* is a special issue,
"Communications, Computers, and Networks", subtitled
"How to Work, Play, and Thrive in Cyberspace".

It's an excellent "pass-along" read, with articles by
Alan Kay, Nicholas Negroponte, and Mitch Kapor, among others.

Though little is mentioned of hypertext, there's still a
wealth of information on such fundamentals as networking
and information retrieval/filtering.

Thankfully, the authors avoided the threat bundled with the
promise of the subtitle, and thereby avoided the gee-whiz
reportage that would otherwise have turned some of the
issue into a showcase for high-end VR systems, such as
VPL's DataGlove and associated hardware.

Not that I disparage such things: they excite me too.  But
here one can find discussion on such things as the
*significance* of human interaction across the networks.  Chip
Morningstar, of AMIX in Palo Alto, once pointed out that
networks and their usage are more important in cyberspace
interaction than the specific interface.

Russell E. Whitaker             
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