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How Wikipedia Became the Hyperaddictive Library of the Future
Information Age

How Wikipedia Became the Hyperaddictive Library of the Future

Daniel H. Pink
Revenge of the Right Brain
Conceptual Age

Revenge of the Right Brain

Daniel H. Pink
The Long Tail
Revolution

The Long Tail

Chris Anderson
Douglas Adams' Mac IIfx
Galaxy Quest

Douglas Adams' Mac IIfx

WIRED Staff
You've Got Smell!
Nose Candy

You've Got Smell!

Charles Platt
The Inner Jeff Bezos
Out of the Box

The Inner Jeff Bezos

Chip Bayers
Murder by Internet
Catch Me If You Can

Murder by Internet

Scott Kirsner
The New Economy Doesn’t Want Your Money—Just Your Attention
Attention Shoppers!

The New Economy Doesn’t Want Your Money—Just Your Attention

Michael H. Goldhaber
Spoiler Alert

The Long Boom: A History of the Future, 1980–2020

Peter Schwartz and Peter Leyden
The Saga of The Well, the Web's Most Influential Community
Cyberspace

The Saga of The Well, the Web's Most Influential Community

Katie Hafner
You Can Kiss Your Web Browser Goodbye
Push!

You Can Kiss Your Web Browser Goodbye

Kevin Kelly and Gary Wolf
You Are Cyborg
Machine Learning

You Are Cyborg

Hari Kunzru
Mother Earth Mother Board
Cable News

Mother Earth Mother Board

Neal Stephenson
Greetings From Burning Man!
Twilight Zone

Greetings From Burning Man!

Bruce Sterling
The Electronic Scriptorium
Collective Memory

The Electronic Scriptorium

Heather Millar
Magazine

Aum's Shoko Asahara and the Cult at the End of the World

David E. Kaplan and Andrew Marshall