The Chinese Solar Machine
Chinese manufacturers have dominated the international market for conventional solar panels by building bigger factories faster. Now they will need to innovate to maintain their lead.
By Kevin Bullis
Technology Review: January/February 2012
Can We Build Tomorrow's Breakthroughs?
Manufacturing in the United States is in trouble. That's bad news not just for the country's economy but for the future of innovation.
By David Rotman
Layer by Layer
With 3-D printing, manufacturers can make existing products more efficiently—and create ones that weren't possible before.
By David H. Freedman
Fire in the Library
Once, we stored our photos and other mementos in shoeboxes in the attic; now we keep them online. That puts our stuff at the mercy of companies that could decide to throw it away—unless Jason Scott and the Archive Team can get there first.
By Matt Schwartz, with reporting by Eva Talmadge
The Mystery Behind Anesthesia
Mapping how our neural circuits change under the influence of anesthesia could shed light on one of neuroscience's most perplexing riddles: consciousness.
By Courtney Humphries
Letters and Comments
From the Editor
Building the Future
Tomorrow's breakthroughs will demand the revival of American manufacturing.
By Jason Pontin
Graphiti
Information's Social Highways
A startup studies the paths taken by viral messages
By Mike Orcutt
Notebooks
Defining Experience
A better definition of consciousness will help with tough ethical choices.
By Morten Overgaard
Net Worth
Efforts to preserve the Web should make use of the powerful, distributed collaboration it allows.
By Kris Carpenter Negulescu
Making Revolution
The U.S. can compete with China if it gives factory workers smarter tools.
By Rodney Brooks
Demo
Nanotech Goes Big
Large sheets made from carbon nanotubes could lead to lighter aircraft and more resilient space probes.
Hack
Eye Ball
A globe studded with cameras captures a panorama if you throw it in the air.
To Market
Technology Commercialized
Smart thermostat, blur-proof camera, GPS shoes, melanoma monitor, energy-sipping servers, Wi-Fi phones, and more.
Q&A
Prith Banerjee
The head of research at Hewlett-Packard talks about the disruptive technologies that could ensure HP's survival.
By Tom Simonite
Photo Essay
Ghosts in the Machines
Bethlehem Steel, once a symbol of American industry, went bankrupt in 2001. These photos help us imagine its glory days.
Photographs by Jeremy Blakeslee
Business Impact
Disruptive Innovation
Disruptive technologies reshape industries, creating new winners and losers. Technology Review explores the innovation strategies of large and small businesses confronting rapid technological change.
Reviews
"Tectonic Shifts" in Employment
Information technology is reducing the need for certain jobs faster than new ones are being created.
By David Talbot
Technological Healing
A leading researcher says digital technologies are about to make health care more effective. But is so much data really beneficial?
By Sharon Begley
The Law of Online Sharing
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg will eventually have to deal with the fact that all growth has limits.
By Paul Boutin
72 Years Ago in TR
Keeping Up with the Despots
One columnist wondered whether democracy was nimble enough to compete with tyranny.
By Timothy Maher
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