Adventures in artificial intelligence and artificial life! Articles in this directory include information about the philosophy, technology and social issues surrounding humanity's attempt to create life.

    What does it mean to think and how are our views of self and other affected by the profound forces of Cyberia/Third Wave/Information Era? This directory explores our understanding of the mind, consciousness, personality, identity, etc...

    This directory includes criticisms of Information Era society and general warnings about how not to overexagerate the utopian possibilities of a wired globe.

    "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel" - William Gibson. What will society be like in the near future? This directory focuses on one genre of futurists, the Cyberpunks, who present a particularly dystopic version of information society.

    "Given the rate of change of biological evolution, and the fact that homo sapiens began appearing around 500,000 years ago, we're about due for some sort've evolutionary shift" - Selena Sol. This directory focusses on how technology infiltrates the body and what changes that process invokes in humanity.

    How will the division between info haves and have-nots be affected by traditional racial/ethnic lines? And how can we mold our future in ways that discontinue previous mistakes and evils? This directory deals with race, ethnicity and culture, in Cyberia, and includes information about how cyberian societies will manage diveristy and conflict.

    Including directories like Games, Hoaxes, Humor, Chain Letters, Art, Flaming, and Spam, this directory attempts to survey the newly developing folklore of the net.

    How are the traditional issues relating to gender affected by the new social media? This directory covers such issues as gender swapping on the net, gendered linguistics in computer mediated communication, and gender issues in technology or technological disciplines.

    The net is by nature a global creature. It is a sorry mistake to conceive of it legally, philosophically, or politically in terms of national, bordered states. This directory explores online jurisdiction and sovereignty issues, and the deterioration of the nation- state in cyberspace, as well as the policy and historical changes that such a transformation promotes. Also includes material about the development of networking around the world.

    "Mentor was a hacker zealot who regarded computer intrusion as something close to a moral duty" - Bruce Sterling. This directory is devoted to thge anthropology of hackers, phreaks, crackers and their emerging culture. Hackers are to information as the underground railroad was to the slaves. Information wants to be free.

    Directory of information relating to online access for the handicapped/disabled.

    This directory includes all the wonderful (but questionably practical) visions of Information Era Paradise.

    Computer mediated.communication creates wholly new ways for humans to speak. Both empowering and limited as a form of communication, CMC, includes :) abilities and :( problems. This directory includes information on the effects of CMC on human communiation and the emerging linguistic rules and customs. "The discovery of the alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls" - Aristotle.

    This directory is devoted to the anthropology of Intenet Relay Chat, Multi- User Domains, and other real-time online inter- personal communication.

    Miscellaneous unsorted information

    Basic Internet technical and introductory information

   

This directory deals with the postmodern philosophy and how it relates to the living experiences of cyberians.

    Sex, Drugs, and Dance in Cyberia.

    This directory includes all the statistics that we've been able to gather. Because oif the decentralized nature of the net, gathering statistics is particularly difficult and begins to show how Newtonian concepts of information management break down in the new era. Statistics become limited, if not useless, in a truly complex adaptive systems!

    A general catch-all directory for things having to to with "virtual reality", including technical as well as philosophical and editorial discussions of VR.

    How are virtual communities different than communities IRL? This directory focuses on the virtual community, the problems they face and the power of connectivity they grant.