NetFuture Information

The NetFuture email newsletter, begun in 1995, is fully archived here. These archives contain a vast range of commentary on many aspects of science, technology, and society. You will find convenient access to all these contents via the topical index , as well as the other routes listed under Guide to the Site below. See what others have said about Netfuture . New material is not currently being posted or indexed here on the NetFuture website. All articles since June 2013 are available via the Rediscovering Life web page, which is a portal for The Nature Institutes Biology Worthy of Life Project . You can access this material in any of the following ways: Take out a (free) email subscription to NetFuture. You will then receive email alerts very roughly, about one per month notifying you of new postings. These email alerts are simple text messages with links and brief article descriptions, and are not archived anywhere. Simply aim your browser at the Rediscovering Life page and check out the current and past articles directly, whenever you feel the urge. In addition, there is a comprehensive overview of the Biology Worthy of Life project , and also a detailed index to all the project content. What is the new content about? NetFuture was for many years focused on technology and its social implications. Newer writings are directed more toward the problems of a science influenced by visions of technology, as when biologists conceive organisms on the model of the machine. In particular, most articles are currently dealing with issues in genetics, molecular biology, evolution, and the nature of the organism. The aim is to overcome the limitations of the nave nineteenth-century materialism that still dominates biological thinking. The aim, in other words, is to find a more living approach to the dynamism, plasticity, and intentionality of the organism. Organisms are creatures of directed striving agents pursuing their own meaningful ways of being and their activity is a kind of speaking. But while these central ...