As the sun rose on September 11, we were already in mourning in our new offices at One Main Street in Cambridge. A dear friend and supporter of Technology Review had just died, suddenly and shockingly. Michael Dertouzos was the director of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science and a pioneer in the development of computing technology. The LCS, as it's called around here, was the place where time-sharing was invented, along with the spreadsheet and many other innovations in information technology. Dertouzos was widely mourned in the computing community and the world at large, but his loss was felt particularly keenly in our office, since he had supported the new Technology Review from its inception.

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