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]

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]