Shock Wave (Anti) Warrior From Future Shock to The Third Wave to his new book War and Anti-War, Alvin Toffler has been shocking us with his descriptions of the future. By Peter Schwartz

Features Binary Beat Three musicians are proving that computer music is no longer an oxymoron. By Robert Neuwirth

Emigre The "Typographic Garbage Factory" is Ten Years Old. By John Plunkett

House Organ Computer graphic artist Masayoshi Obata has a thing for organs.... By Kevin Kelly

Iridium What does it take to create a satellite-based phone system? Money, diplomacy, and more money. Big business doesn't get any bigger than this. By Joe Flower

Kids Connecting You've heard it before, but this time it's true: online technology can reform our schools. By Jacques Leslie

The Luckiest Nerds in the World Someone's got to make sure the Enterprise really works. By Jeff Greenwald

The Medium is the Mission Ponton Media Lab plans to drive a stake through the scleric heart of that 50 year old bloodsucker, television. By Jules Marshall

Total Immersion Douglas Trumball's big budget VR debuts (where else?) in Las Vegas. By Howard Rheingold

Release Some have called Esther Dyson the most powerful woman in computing. But is her fascination with Eastern Europe leading to eclipse on her home turf? By Paulina Borsook