This month, Technology Review introduces a new design, our first since 1998. Maybe no one besides editors and art directors is very interested in the details of magazine design: I will postpone a description of our new clothes until the end of this column. But a redesign is also an opportunity for the editors to reconsider the contents of their publication. Technology Review will be a different magazine --and our readers and advertisers may be interested in learning what we have changed and why we changed it.

Here’s one thing that will not change: our subject matter. Since Technology Review’s founding in 1899, we have described emerging technologies and explained their impact. But with this redesign, we hope to do more.