◎contnents 1. the soul-catcher chip 2. the ancient mystery of human knowledge 3. wiring the planet 4. the chip,master logician 5. but are computers like us? the rise and fall of artificial intelligence 6. creating cyberspace : multimedia and the internet 7. looking for results : computers and economic progress 8. back to the real world : digital technologies of tomorrow 9. who are we in the digital age? epilogue further reading index