Technology Review: January/February 2010
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Security in the Ether
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Information technology's next grand challenge will be to secure the cloud--and prove we can trust it.
By David Talbot
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Notebooks
- Integrating the Clouds
- The next step in cloud computing is to link different systems.
By Vinton Cerf
- Why Geoengineering?
- We should study the costs and consequences of solar radiation management.
By M. Granger Morgan
- The New News
- "Journalism" and "the media" are not synonymous.
By Jay Rosen
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Features
 Trading Shares in Milliseconds - High-speed automated buying and selling of financial shares dominates the market. Will it lead to the next financial meltdown?
By Bryant Urstadt
- The Geoengineering Gambit
- As climate policy stalls, scientists and policy experts consider desperate plans to cool the earth.
By Kevin Bullis
Q & A
- Mike Lynch
- The cofounder and CEO of Autonomy explains why Nicole Kidman is not a cosmic ball of gas.
By Jason Pontin
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Photo Essay
 The Lithium Rush - In the Bolivian Andes lies a vast salt flat that may shape the future of transportation.
By Antonio Regalado
Briefing
- Media
- We assess the technologies that are destroying old ways of doing business and look into what will be left when the dust settles.
Reviews
- Shoveling Water
- Why does it take so long to commercialize new technologies?
By David Rotman
- True Match
- How does the matching algorithm of the popular dating service suggest potential mates?
By Emily Gould
- The Future of Human Spaceflight
- Are astronauts close to extinction?
By Jeff Foust
35 Years Ago in TR
- A Change in the Weather
- Rainmaking efforts during the Vietnam War prompted an international ban.
By Matt Mahoney
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