No. 269 / July 1995
The Future
2025 - How was it for you?
Editor's
letter
- Whose future?
The future is being colonized, argues Vanessa Baird. Can we reclaim it? - The right to dream
Cars will be run-over by dogs in the topsy-turvy ideal world of 2025, according to Uruguayan writer and historian Eduardo Galeano. - The Box and I
Irish writer Evelyn Conlan evokes an ordered society - and its spirited rebels. - How wrong can you be?
- Choose your movie
By P.J. Polyp. (Gif 145k) - The Future Imperfect
The "new man" of 2025 faces the powers that be. A raunchy and iconoclastic satire on sexism and fundamentalism by Manjula Padmanabhan. - THE FUTURE - THE FACTS
(This file contains large gifs) - An Ecosterian conundrum
Ecosteries are the monasteries of 2025. But even they are under threat. A parable by Kirkpatrick Sale. - The will to live
Nawal El Saadawi on her turbulent life and times and her dreams for 2025. - When the lion
Lions talk to monkeys in cyberspace. A multicultural fable by Suniti Namjoshi. - Techno-passion
Phobic or philic, technology can arouse strong passions. But will it provide solutions for the future? - A history of amnesia
Jamal Mahjoub's lyrical account of what happened to time, power and information in the years leading up to 2025. - Worth reading
- Letters
- Letter from Ingushetia
- Update
- The NI Interview with Bruce Harris
- Reviews: plus Lewis Mumford classic
- Curiosities
- Endpiece by Rakiya Omaar and Alex de Waal
- Country profile: Afghanistan
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FRONT COVER CONCEPT BY PHIL WARR
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