Reuter Information Service, “Newspaper executives see online services as prime competitor,” carried by _The NandO Times_, June 9, 1995. Footnote 4.33: David Streitfeld, “Cyberstrokes: For authors, e-mail offers some novel reader feedback,” _Washington Post_, June 9,1995, page B1. Chapter 5—Wired Knowledge: When They Let a Murderer Loose on the Internet Footnote 5.1: Ronnie Crocker, “Executed killer lives as computer image,” _Houston Chronicle_, December 18, 1994, page A1. Footnote 5.2: To be technical, these weren’t true physical slices, just images taken of the remaining surface as researchers ground down Jernigan. Footnote 5.3: From an essay that Chris Gazunis wrote in a 1994 contest sponsored by the National Center for Education Statistics, the NASA K-12 Internet Project, and the National Science Foundation. Footnote 5.4: Randy Hammer was another contestant in the competition that Chris Gazunis entered. Footnote 5.5: Peter West, “Wired for the future,” _Education Week_, January 11, 1995. The senior analyst quoted was Kathleen Fulton. Footnote 5.6: The University of Colorado got a great package deal. While I couldn’t rate Helen according to her medical knowledge, she appeared to know her computer imaging cold. Footnote 5.7: Not to confuse detachment with callousness. In Pelster’s place—working with the cadaver day after day, not just writing about him—I’d have coped the same way. Footnote 5.8: The Associated Press quoted Oxford and Nelson. Chapter 6—Governments and the Net: Making Sure Orwell Was Wrong Footnote 6.1: Encryption is the scrambling of messages into codes. Footnote 6.2: Simson Garfinkel, _Wired_, March 1995, page 44. Footnote 6.3: To simplify a bit, cryptography is the study, or the technique, of making secret messages. Footnote 6.4: Peter Huber, _Orwell’s Revenge: The 1984 Palimpsest_ (New York: The Free Press, 1994). Footnote 6.5: Sandy Sandford, “The intelligent island?” _Wired_, September/October 1993. Footnote 6.6: Rosalind Resnick, “Cyberbiz” column of July 3, 1995, published in the _Miami Herald_, on the Knight-Ridder wire and her Web site, http://www.netcreations.com. One of the best sites on the whole Net. Drop by! Footnote 6.7: Exon has announced plans not to run again—his term ends in 1997. But who knows what can happen in the meantime? Footnote 6.8: My favorite observation on the passion for censorship comes from Phil Kirby, a former editorial writer for the _Los Angeles Times_, by way of Nat Hentoff, in the book _Free Speech for Me, But Not for Thee_. “Censorship,” Kirby said, “is the strongest drive in human nature; sex is a weak second.” Thanks to Rob Chatelle of the National Writers Union for bringing this gem to my attention. Footnote 6.9: