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Mother Earth Mother Board at Wired.com

January 23rd, 1997

Neal published an essay on telecoms, undersea cables, and early hackers in Wired’s December 1996 edition. They have a copy of it online.

The hacker tourist ventures forth across the wide and wondrous meatspace of three continents, chronicling the laying of the longest wire on Earth. [More]

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In the Kingdom of Mao Bell at Wired.com

March 25th, 1994

Neal took a trip to the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone in Chine during 1993. He wrote about those experiences, his thoughts on technology as a means of political change, hacking in different cultures, and other things in an article for Wired.

A billion Chinese are using new technology to create the fastest growing economy on the planet. But while the information wants to be free, do they? [More]

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