Hello,everybody.

This image was taken just few minutes ago using ordinary VHS videocamera. I am here in my office in a small grapchig design agency. Among usual page lay-out we do some web-page design also. Behind me you can see my experimental server running in my laptop.

I'm part of it. Wold is changing faster than ever and at least somehow I will follow. I can understand Kristoffer Kolumbus or Vasco da Gama, how they felt, what is it to find new worlds. I do it every day in net. And I don't mean only new web pages or messages in newsgroups etc. They are just tools to explore and discover new poit of wiews, tools to think in different ways. The amount of information (and bullsihit) is enormous, all in my fingetips. Who needs any chemical drugs any more?
But soon these wonderful days of pioneering will be over, and Net (or something that will follow) will be as usual as telephone. Agent software are seeking things that intersts us and we go to local pub every now and then as we used to do before. But world isn't the same any more. It is smaller and people thinking the same way has found each other no matter were in the world their pub physically happens to be.
When I get old, my children are wondering how we could survive without cyberspace. Hope after 40 years or so my grandchildren are sitting somewere (maybe in the other side of the world) and listening grandfather telling about those strange old times when you had to use strange macihe called "telefax" to send pictures to your frends.

Send my best to all you wireheads around the world-willage!

Lauri Alku
lauri@grafiscreen.fi
Helsinki, Finland