The two existing departments are "Pages," our book review section, capably written by MIT alumnus Wade Roush, and "Viewpoint," an essay contributed by a rotating group of freelance writers. In this issue the essay is by Daniel Akst, a novelist who lives in upstate New York. He takes on the charged subject of "Selective Luddism"-why we embrace some technologies and fear others, for not very good reasons. The final piece of the new "Culture Zone" puzzle is a new department we're calling "Mixed Media." Replacing the column we called "Web Crawl," "Mixed Media" will provide reviews, not just of Web sites, but of products in many media-movies, software, CD-ROMs, museum exhibits, radio programs and almost any other vehicle for communication.

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