Technology Review: November/December 2008
|
-
Sun + Water = Fuel
-
With catalysts created by an MIT chemist, sunlight can turn water into hydrogen gas. If the process can scale up, it could make solar power a dominant source of energy.
By Kevin Bullis
|
Subscribe to Technology Review
|
|
|
|
Features
- Upwardly Mobile
- An Indian startup thinks that the right software can make cheap phones a financial lifeline to millions.
By David Talbot
- The Flaw at the Heart of the Internet
- Dan Kaminsky got people to fix a fundamental security problem in the Internet. We were lucky this time.
By Erica Naone
Fiction
- Glass
- An experimental drug makes people who lack empathy take a hard look in the mirror.
By Daryl Gregory
- The Distant Sound of Engines
- In a rural hospital, Lenny hears a message of staggering importance from the man in the next bed. Will he get it?
By Algis Budrys
|
Photo Essay
- The Brain Unveiled
- A new imaging method offers a novel view of neural structures.
By Emily Singer
Reviews
- The Alien Novelist
- The science fiction of Algis Budrys, who died in June at the age of 77, showed that the genre can produce literary art.
By Mark Williams
- Wikipedia and the Meaning of Truth
- Why the online encyclopedia's epistemology should worry those who care about traditional notions of accuracy.
By Simpson L. Garfinkel
- iTube
- Why 23,201 people care that Justine Ezarik just ate a cookie.
By Emily Gould
Demo
- Fuel-Cell Power-Up
- A new membrane increases the output of methanol fuel cells by 50 percent.
By Kristina Grifantini
|
|
Massachusetts Institute of Technology