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Cover Story: Event Horizon

From The Transhuman Planet

Technology will make human beings their own ancestors

Jan 03, 2000

| Sandipan Deb Bharat Ahluwalia Arindam Mukherjee Paromita Shastri Pothik Ghosh

Crystal Ball

Weak Signals

For a long time now, observers of the American political sene have been pointing out how difficult it is to distinguish between what the Rpublican party stands for and what the Democratic party stands for.

Jan 03, 2000

| P.V. Indiresan
Crystal Ball

No Escaping The Nation-state

A nation-state is a state legitimised by the people.

Jan 03, 2000

| Mukul Kesavan
Abdul Kalam: Strategy

"India Can Become A Developed Country"

In a freewheeling interview with Shantanu Guha Ray, Dr Kalam talks of his vision for India.

Jan 03, 2000

| Shantanu Guha Ray

Vinton Cerf: The Web

"I Can See A Network For The Solar System By 2040"

He is the father of the Internet. But Vinton Cerf admits that when he, with his colleague Robert Kahn, invented TCP/IP - the computer language that gave birth to the Internet - he didn't know what he had unleashed. Currently Senior Vice-Presid

Jan 03, 2000

| Soutik Biswas
Vinod Khosla: Indianet

"You Can't Tell Computers From Humans In 50 Years"

On issues ranging from 21st century computers to the revenue model for the Net to the challenges facing the entrepreneur of tomorrow...

Jan 03, 2000

| Sandipan Deb
Tomorrow's World

Money In The Age Of The Net

Metal, parchment, bytes-the change gets easier with time

Jan 03, 2000

| Jerry Rao
Tomorrow's World

The Energy Overdrive

The auto sector will see an oligopoly of sorts

Jan 03, 2000

| Osamu Suzuki
Rajat Gupta: The Mckinsey Report

"Focus On Education, Especially In Rural India"

McKinsey managing-director Rajat Gupta is a firm believer in quality. And adds two more words - culture and meritocracy - to his life dictionary. That's the way the Indian head of the world's most respected management consultancy firm measures class

Jan 03, 2000

| Shantanu Guha Ray
- 2000 Strategy

20th Century: The Technoshaman Era - I

Jan 03, 2000

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- 20th Century: The Technoshaman Era - Time-line
Time-Lock

Down In Pitsburgh

This is Patalkot - 2,000 feet below civilisation

Jan 03, 2000

| Neeraj Mishra
Gurukool

Come To This Gurukool

The shishyas of this new-age gurukul chant Vedic hymns to a cyber tune

Jan 03, 2000

| B.R. Srikanth
Noam Chomsky: Inequality

"America Is One Of The Most Fundamentalist Cultures"

An e-mail interview with Sandipan Deb and Paromita Shastri, Noam Chomsky answers queries on the future of ideology and the polity to come.

Jan 03, 2000

| Sandipan Deb Paromita Shastri
Nicholas Negroponte: Digital Designs

"The Net Will Bring The Biggest Change In The Child Student"

He is called the Nostradamus of the digital world. Dr Nicholas Negroponte studied at MIT where as a graduate student he specialised in the then new field of computer-aided design. He joined the Institute faculty in 1966 and was also a visiting profes

Jan 03, 2000

| Mahesh Nair
All In Vein

The Making Of A Zipless Society

Will lab-created life mean the death of lust, language, Viagra?

Jan 03, 2000

| Jug Suraiya
Crystal Ball

Will We Be Hung By The Net?

Rarely do people actually want to chat, mostly they are there to pick each other up and type sex together. How do you type sex? Well, you just imagine what you would be doing if you were really together, and type it on your qwerty keyboard.

Jan 03, 2000

| Indra Sinha
Urbania

Here, There, And In Between

Buffeted by its contending spaces, Hyderabad confronts the future

Jan 03, 2000

| A.S. Panneerselvan
First Take

First Take

My advice: look forward to next Saturday but hold the frenzy. And approach the future with both hope and humility.

Jan 03, 2000

| Vinod Mehta
Relationships.Org

Anonymous, Amorous, Asinine, Available

A wo/man’s search for cyber-intimacy yields a crop of the weird and the (few) wonderful

Jan 03, 2000

| Sayoni Sen
Alternative.Com

Jan 03, 2000

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The Faceless Perils Of Cyberia

Jan 03, 2000

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Crystal Ball

The Immortality Code

The science of cryonics claims that if you can freeze a dead man at ultra-low temperatures quickly, before the essential brain structures have degenerated, it will one day be possible to bring him back to life.

Jan 03, 2000

| Sandipan Deb
Crystal Ball

A Ladder Up Into The Open Blue

A thousand years from now, for the vast majority of the human race, the Home Planet may be a world of legends, lost among the star-fields of constellations we would never recognise.

Jan 03, 2000

| Arthur C. Clarke
Crystal Ball

Will We Ever Need To Have Sex Again?

Love has been, and will remain, the only device that works in sex.

Jan 03, 2000

| Anil Dharker

Poems

Farewell Cantos

K. Satchidanandan

Jan 03, 2000

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Crystal Ball

Dog-eared Floppy Disks, Anyone?

When humankind opens a new door, it does not necessarily close all the others. All the medical triumphs of this century have not wiped out alternative medicine, instant and processed food has not taken away the pleasure of fresh food, nor have speedy

Jan 03, 2000

| Shashi Deshpande
Rabindranath Tagore: Virtually

"Rapid Communication Makes For A Better Language"

Poet, painter, writer and composer, Rabindranath Tagore (1861- 1941), is modern India's intellectual totem pole; our only Nobel laureate in literature. In a virtual interview with Ajith Pillai, the founder of Vishwa Bharati University answers questio

Jan 03, 2000

| Ajith Pillai
Mean Machines: Short Story

A Buzz In The Devil's Workshop

Some mechanical inventions for the benefit of mankind

Jan 03, 2000

| Paul Zacharia
- Some Other Mechanical Operations - A Note
Oracle: Future Days

The Palette And Easel Of Destiny

Imagination can be footloose, or a third eye into the future. How did AD 2000 seem 100 years ago? In 1899, a cigarette company asked French artist Jean Marc Cote to do a set of visuals on the third millennium. The firm went bust, and the project sank

Jan 03, 2000

| Isaac Asimov
Poetic Note

Caught In Some Morass, Dom?

Call me behind times, but technology and I never took to each other

Jan 03, 2000

| Dom Moraes
Futureshock: Short Story

Elimination Act 2040

It was terror. The best part of it was, it was all perfectly legal.

Jan 03, 2000

| Ajith Pillai
New Ideas Governing India

Mogambo, People Are Driven By Incentives

How to push the right buttons and transform the nation

Jan 03, 2000

| Aditya Jha