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Great Expectations

  • October 2004
  • By Michael Schrage

Successful innovators don't believe hypebut they don't ignore it, either.

   

"The computer of the future: if Stan Williams of HP has his way, it will be a computer that assembles itself -- in a beaker." "Mining the Genome for New Drugs." "Micromachines -- The Next Big Thing."

Intrigued? Actually, these are all five-year-old stories, featured on the cover of the September/October 1999 issue of Technology Review.

 

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