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Newsweek magazine, dated February 27, 1995 (Volume CXXV, No. 9). Special issue on "TechnoMania."

Cover Image by Cha Jiempreecha, R/GA Digital Studios Inc.: a (white, male) hand, raised, palm presentation. As if to signal, "Halt." The three largest fingers obscure the Newsweek logo. Middle finger reaches to the banner headline "TechnoMania" -- as if the magazine has been (temporarily) renamed, and we are meant to notice.

The hand is quantized into color regions like a topographic map, and overlaid with green wire-frame lines, as in a computer-graphic simulation. The wire lines are dotted with circular "nodes" as in a stylized circuit diagram. These "circuit lines" are traversed by three "pulses" delineating the center of the palm.

Surrounding the hand is a list (ostensibly) of features in this special issue. Clockwise from lower left: Cyberdemocracy, Intelligent Agents, 50 People to Watch, Tracking a Hacker, Online Sex, Interactive Movies and Music, Virtual Surgery.

Immediately above the thumb, the sub-head: The Future Isn't What You Think.

Cover price: $2.95 U.S.

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