WIRED MAGAZINE
Issue 10.04
April 2002

Published by : Conde Nast Publications Inc.
Copyright : 2002
ISSN : 1059-1028
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                A Prayer Before Dying
                The astonishing story of a doctor who subjected faith to the rigors of
                science - and then became a test subject herself.
                By Po Bronson

                God Is the Machine
                A mind-bending meditation on the transcendent power of digital computation.
                By Kevin Kelly

                The Ultimate Geek Gift Guide
                Wired Tools - 48 irresistible toys and gadgets for the bedroom, the home office, and the
                open road.

                Making Headlines in 10,000-Point Type
                Design whiz Ed Schlossberg is about to make bigger news than ever.
                By Brad Wieners

                The Netflix Effect
                Still waiting for video-on-demand? Forget fat pipes - watch your mailbox. Special DVD
                bonus: Watch the video rental game get shaken to its core!
                By Jeffrey M. O'Brien

                Supermicrobe Man
                Craig Venter cracked the human genome. Now he wants to sequence the ocean and save
                the world.
                By Douglas McGray

                The Very Modern Prince
                Make way for the irrepressible cybervisionary of the South Pacific!
                By Jennifer Kahn

                Solaris, Rediscovered
                Stanislaw Lem made deep science into some of the greatest science fiction you've never
                seen. Now his classic Solaris is getting the Hollywood treatment.
                By Gary Wolf

                Rebuilding Tomorrowland
                For 50 years, Disney's Imagineers have put the tech magic in the Magic Kingdom. Their
                new challenge: reimagine the future factory itself.
                By Scott Kirsner

                Departments

                Rants & Raves  Feedback.

                Start  Technology. Business. People.
                Cognitive science gets the hard sell
                Bracing for the front lines of biowar
                Seeing with your tongue
                How to keep geeks busy for hours

                PLAY  Culture. Gear. Obsessions.
                Unnatural ax with a video - live, onstage
                Head-to-head: Xbox Live vs. PS2 Online
                Copyright and the fine art of rip-offs
                Test Consumer reviews.
                Wireless keyboards, USB minidrives, active reference monitors, dive computers - and a Shopping Cart filled
                with staff raves
                Plus: Screen, Print, Reviews, and more ...

                VIEW  Opinion. Ideas. Provocations
                Grand theft audio's new worst culprit
                Hot Seat: Dave Schafer of MapQuest
                Sterling A new column!Stopping corruption via Internet
                DeLong On the Wired economy.
                Why America's productivity keeps growing - but not Europe's
 
 

                Issue 10.04 | Apr 2002
 

                Astrocop
                Get ready for the new frontier of missile defense,
                where peacekeeping space lasers battle a storm of
                rogue nukes.
                By Bruce Sterling

                Plus: Three do-or-die crisis scenarios and 13 enemy strategies.
 

                Features

                Shoot To Kill
                Two MIT rocket scientists have a dire warning for Washington: The
                Bush blueprint for national missile defense will not work. Here's one
                that will.
                By George Lewis and Theodore Postol
 

                Can This Man Save Advertising?
                After a year that pushed the ad world to the brink, WPP's Martin
                Sorrell has a plan to seize the upside of the downturn.
                By Eric Garland

                Televisionary
                A lone genius named Philo T. Farnsworth invented TV and changed the
                way we see the world. Then corporate America pushed him out of the
                picture.
                By Evan I. Schwartz

                Inside the Mind of Oliver Sacks
                He transformed modern medicine's understanding of the brain. Now he's rethinking the
                science of neurology - and re-examining his own memory.
                By Steve Silberman

                Redesigning the Driver
                Detroit spent decades creating smarter, safer cars. Today's R&D labs are setting their
                sights behind the wheel. Brace yourself.
                By Andrew Tilin

                Blown Away
                In Hawaii, they're beta testing an extreme sport called kitesurfing - one broken bone at a time.
                By Jeffrey M. O'Brien

                The Rainmaker
                How a low-cost, lightweight pump (and some Silicon Valley high design) is changing the
                economy of a nation.
                By Lisa Margonelli