Our annual list of 10 technologies that could change the world. This year: Light-field photography. Solar microgrids. Crowdfunding. Facebook's Timeline. And more...
Google's ambitious book-scanning program is foundering in the courts. Now a Harvard-led group is launching its own sweeping effort to put our literary heritage online. Will the Ivy League succeed where Silicon Valley failed?
By Nicholas Carr
They promise to change the world. But how will their development be funded?
By Jason Pontin
Cheap sequencing technology is flooding the world with genomic data. Can we handle the deluge?
By Mike Orcutt
The Internet amplified but did not create the bravery that freed Libya.
By Moez Zeiton
As the world's books go online, we must resist centralization.
By Brewster Kahle and Rick Prelinger
We need to develop the deployment of advanced materials.
By Cyrus Wadia
Qualcomm uses the mechanism that gives color to butterfly wings to make low-power, full-color e-reader displays.
By Tom Simonite
A superbright, low-power LED, a robot soldier, a home health center, a wearable 3-D display, a pen for your laptop, and an upgrade for touch-based games.
The creator of a social network for close friends and family says smart phones will make computing more intimate than PCs did.
By Tom Simonite
At its electric-car factory in Silicon Valley, Tesla obsesses over details like making its own high-tech tools.
Photographs by John Stocklin
By Timothy Maher
Information technology could be the best way to save energy, or even create more of it.
Siri may not be the smartest AI in the world, but it's the most socially adept.
By Will Knight
If small companies are to survive in the highly competitive energy business, they'll have to work with the large companies they once hoped to replace.
By David Rotman
A group led by Harvard academics hopes to compile a library of everything. One forward thinker from 1961 might have asked: What took you so long?
By Timothy Maher
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