In September 1999, I was blogging about

• What makes a play worth seeing twice, according to Tom Stoppard
• The then-unrealistic expectations of voice-recognition software
• A critique of the “information wants to be free” mantra
• A Microsoft exec who predicted that digital publication would eclipse print publication within a decade
• How marketers are pushing your buttons with the help of technology and semiotic theory
• The storytelling genius and embedded racism of Edgar Rice Burroughs