The Next Level: Sega's Plans for World Domination Now that it's a $3.6 billion business with a firm grip on your TV, Sega wants to own the entire interactive entertainment industry. By John Battelle with Bob Johnstone

Features !Santo Mio! With digital manipulation, Pedro Meyer brings into his pictures what he saw, even if it wasn't there. By Amy Howorth and Jessie Scanlon

Big Brother Wants to Look in your Bank Account The US government is constructing a system to track all financial transactions in real-time - ostensibly to catch criminals. Does that leave you with the warm fuzzies - or scare you out of your wits? By Anthony L. Kimery

Mission To Planet Earth The most comprehensive program ever undertaken to monitor the Earth as an ecosystem will allow you to examine terabytes of data generated daily by nineteen Earth- orbiting satellites - in real-time, and with full-color graphics. By Garrett Culhane

Nanotech: Engines of Hyperbole? You know the hype: Teensy-weensy little robots will someday push atoms around and build whole new cities, eat pollution, make us immortal. But really, is any of this even remotely possible? By Charles Platt

The Sheer Force of Attitude If television can be a religious experience, then Citytv is the temple of ultra-hip. By Jennifer Cowan

The Spirit of the Brush Ron Thornton's startling, Emmy award-winning graphics for the upcoming sci-fi series, Babylon 5. By Sandy Sandfort

This Is Not Your Father's Prodigy After losing a billion dollars, alienating sophisticated users, and failing to reach its ad sales targets, the sleeping giant of online services may finally be waking up. But will it fall into a new trap called Prodigy TV? By Robert D. Shapiro

WIRED Wonders Rhodes Had Its Colossus. We Have our old folks. By Jeff Greenwald, ed.