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The 1960s may have seemed like the golden rage for Xerox, when people like Alan Kay were busy figuring out the graphical user interface and designing icons for the Alto, [...]

Makes observations concerning the technological advances being made in the paper industry. Paper embedded with dataglyphs, microencoded digital information; How dataglyphs are similar to bar codes; How glyphs can be concealed in a logo or other graphic; How glyphs can be used in publishing and banking industries.

Reports on an experiment by soil scientist Jim Edwards that converts paper wastes into a combination of fertilizer and mulch. Use of mixture to boost crop growth and enrich the soil; Uncertainty over the economic feasibility of the plan.

Presents the winners in the `Omni' Omnigami contest, an adaptation of paper folding, or origami.

A growing genre of software makes learning fun-damental Bread and circuses, home style, doesn't have to mean pizza and The Simpsons. If you have a home computer--and kids at home--you [...]

Presents examples of modern urban folklore, photocopied or faxed cartoons, gag memos, or letters that are tacked on office bulletin boards.

Interview with Reese Jenkins, a professor of history at Rutgers University, who is documenting the creative processes of Thomas Edison in a work called `The Edison Papers.' The role of technical creativity in society; Edison's inventions'; Collaboration and friendships with other inventors.

Focuses on preserving our informational past and retaining the day-to-day bits and pieces that keep our world working. Preservationists turning to proven processes while waiting for breakthroughs in everything from computers to chemicals; Globalprogression of disintegrating books; Motion pictures and television film; Computer data and magnetic tape; Beating the acid problem by doing away with paper; Promising technologies.

Describes a series of glasswork by Massachusetts glassblower Josh Simpson, called Planets, which are first designed on paper with help of satellite photos, and range in size from two to ten inches.

Belgian artist, Pierre Cordier, 51, calls his creations chemigrams. They are created by coating light-sensitive paper with materials ranging from syrups to dry compounds, and then developing the images. The result combines qualities of printing and photography.

Presents various tricks, trivia, and optical illusions using United States paper money. Answers are provided.

Examines a number of American newspapers planning on going electronic. One of the best electronic papers is the `San Jose Mercury News,' a daily known for topnotch technology reporting; Finding Mercury Center on American Online; Other AOL papers, including the `Chicago Tribune'; Elements of electronic papers; Good sources of national and international news, sports and entertainment; Sierra's Take-A-Break! Crosswords: Volume 1 and Volume 2 for Windows and Macintosh; Details.

Reports that kudzu, a form of vine that grows at the rate of sixty feet a year, may have commercial applications as a source of pulp for paper. Details of a science project conducted by Georgia Tech students Peter Hart and Brian Brogdon.

Reports on a paper published in the January, 1994 issue of the `Psychological Bulletin,' by psychologists Daryl Bern and the late Charles Honorton, which claims to have found replicable evidence for mental telepathy. Details of their experiments, based on the `ganzfield' procedure; Skepticism from psychologist Ray Hyman.

Informs on consumer watchdog agencies that mediate disputes between consumers and department stores, auto mechanics and home improvement contractors. If all else fails you can haul the SOB into small-claims court. Importance of keeping records and establishing a paper trail; Keeping a detailed log of who you talked to, what you told them, and what took place in the conversation; Bringing in the heavy artillery if you get stonewalled; Contact points for help.

Describes the new protective coating from Dow Chemical, Midland, Michigan, that repells water, acetone and methyl ethyl ketone. Marking pens and ink can be completely wiped off of treated surfaces with a dry paper towel and spray paint can be removed with sticky tape. Comments from Dow's senior associate scientist Donald L. Schmidt.

Contends that, according to computer scientist and UFO expert Jacques Vallee, the US government is withholding information on UFOs. Vallee's new book `Forbidden Science,' tells about a memo found among the papers of UFO pioneer J. Allen Hynek in 1967 marked `SECRET--Security Information'; Criticisms of UFO skeptic Phillip J. Klass about the importance of the memo; UFO reports in the public domain; Details.

Recounts the recent annual conference of the Society for Literature and Science, where dozens of scholarly papers were presented on topics ranging from the imagery Ralph Waldo Emerson to the somatic impact of visual reality. Scholars with a passion for connecting their work with other disciplines; The traveling exhibition `The Age of the Marvelous,' at Atlanta's High Museum of Art; Comments on SLS.

Presents a humorous look at Dr. Douglass Alligood's Thomas Edison Clinic for the treatment of technoholics on Highway 84, Woodside, Calif., in the heart of the Silicon Valley. First five days at the clinic the hardest; Withdrawal period can be brutal; Relearning basic skills such as mastering the rotary phone, writing on paper with a pen, long division without a calculator; Confessions from technoholics.

Compares the Kwakiutl custom of potlatch (the redistribution of wealth within the tribe) and President George Bush's $8 million fundraising dinner to the Los Angeles residents who used a drive-by fundraiser of a riot to trickle down the wealth, by physical rather than paper-and-pencil force. Why the trickle-down theory of economics failed; Urban disturbances for economic justice; The poor treated badly by the instruments of upper-class control.

Describes the Urban Rooftop Greenhouse Project, a $450,000 project that is expected to turn food scraps, yard waste and paper into compost to support a lush urban garden. Gaia Institute director Paul Mankiewicz will shortly plant his first crop of herbs, salad greens, bulb flowers and houseplants atop New York City's Cathedral of St. John the Divine; Rooftop greenhouses could become a multibillion-dollar business capable of revitalizing urban economies.

Considers new computer software in which fun takes first place, education a back seat. Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? (IBM PC compatibles, Macintosh, Nintendo) from Broderbund; Davidson's Headline Harry and the Great Paper Chase (IBM PC compatibles, Macintosh); Super Solvers Spelldown!, from The Learning Company (IBM PC compatibles); Mammals from the National Geographic (CD-ROM disc-based).

Presents a random dot illusion from N.E. Thing Enterprises, Cambridge, Mass., created by computer graphics whiz Dan Dyckman. Using computers to make single 3-D images on paper. Address for more information and samples.

Examines the tools that will allow increasing numbers of people to print and publish without paper in the 21st century. News E-services; Custom compilations; Faxes; Books on PCs.

Explains the hybrid paper-computer role-playing games of Star Saga: One and Star Saga: Two from Cinemaware. King's Quest V from Sierra On-Line and Dynamix's Stellar 7 are also briefly discussed.

Describes several of the ways a businessperson can project himself or herself across time and space. Videoconference rooms; Videophones; Virtual reality business applications.

Looks at the negative aspects of individuals' responses to changing technologies in the workplace. Technostress; Overreliance on electronic tools; Fear of lack of information; Mind prostheses; Fragmentation and isolation; Need for psychological support systems.

You can just forget about judging the presidential candidates by how they handle the talk-show circuit or even how they cajole the House into transforming position papers into legislation. We [...]

Just when you thought your fancy white-collar job was safe I was having a bad dream. In it I whipped open the paper and saw the headline: 'High-Tech Jobs Follow [...]

Opinion. Describes a collection of humorous business machines that could become part of the Incessant Office.

I was walking the telephone wires upside-down, the sky underfoot cold and flat with a few bard bright stars sparsely scattered about it, when I thought bow it would take [...]

'Behold! Human beings living in an underground den ... Like ourselves, they see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite [...]

Depressed for weeks, worried his career was going nowhere, he mulled over a set of apparently unsolvable problems. Otherwise unemployed, Whitfield Diffie was a househusband about to cook dinner for [...]

It was the fictional Sherlock Holmes who noted that 'the game is afoot.' He didn't have UFOs in mind, obviously, but a more elusive quarry could hardly be imagined. If [...]

As star back as the Depression-haunted 1930s, the Dickson Mounds site near Lewistown, Illinois, had been a popular local tourist attraction, famous for its exhibit of over 200 exposed Indian [...]

There's an underground war being waged. But no hostages have been seized, no shots fired,. and no casualties sustained. This covert battle is over intellectual property rights, the obscure branch [...]

Her heroes were Abraham Lincoln and, Albert Einstein. Lincoln was out of the question, but with a little work I could look Einsteinesque. I grew a dark mustache. adopted wild [...]

It's hard to reconcile what I know of Daniel Dennett--unflinching philosopher of mind, tenacious and learned reasoner, challenger of our comfortable illusions--with the man in knee-length shorts greeting me from [...]

It was July 5, 1947. A day seemingly like any other in the sleepy, desert town of Roswell, New Mexico. A nurse who worked at the Roswell Army Air Field [...]

Flying saucers made their first official appearance in the summer of 1947. On June 25, Kenneth Arnold, a Boise, Idaho, rescue pilot working for the U.S. Forest Service, flew over [...]

It was back in junior high school in the small desert town of Roswell, New Mexico, that Glenn Dennis got his unusual start. 'The teacher was going around the room [...]

George: dumped now, on his way and six months too late but THREE better out of it at any cost; George like a spectroscope, that device PORTRAITS of many colors [...]

Jurassic Park could be open for business in 20 years. So says the man who first proposed cloning dinosaurs from ancient insects in amber. There was a time, about 15 [...]

IN ANY INTENSE COMPETITION, GETTING THE EDGE IS THE KEY TO WINNING. IN U.S. INDUSTRY, THE EDGE JUST MAY LIE IN THE HYPERSPACE BEING EXPLORED BY THESE TWO MEN. Finishing [...]

Fentriss sat up in his chair in the garden in the middle of a fine autumn and listened. The drink in his hand remained unsipped, his friend Black unspoken to, [...]