A New Net
A startup called Nicira is reinventing computer networking with an audacious goal: to make all kinds of Internet services smarter, faster, and cheaper.
By Tom Simonite
Technology Review: March/April 2012
The 50 Most Innovative Companies of 2012
Our annual list of the companies that are shaping the paths technologies are taking.
Kenya's Startup Boom
Local programmers and homegrown business models are helping to realize the vast promise of using phones to improve health care and save lives.
By David Talbot
Foundation Medicine: Personalizing Cancer Drugs
Foundation Medicine is offering a test that helps oncologists choose drugs targeted to the genetic profile of a patient's tumor cells. Has personalized cancer treatment finally arrived?
By Adrienne Burke
Alta Devices: Finding a Solar Solution
Looking to enter a highly competitive solar market, Alta Devices hopes to use a combination of technological advances and manufacturing savvy to succeed where many others have crashed and burned.
By David Rotman
The Patient of the Future
Internet pioneer Larry Smarr's quest to quantify everything about his health led him to a startling discovery, an unusual partnership with his doctor, and more control over his life.
By Jon Cohen
Letters and Comments
From the Editor
Radically Better
What the TR50 companies have in common.
By Jason Pontin
Graphiti
Small Gains
Wind and solar power are ramping up quickly, but the world's demand for electricity is growing much faster.
By Mike Orcutt
Notebooks
Be the Change
Great technology companies often begin when ambitious people create change they want to see.
By David Lee
Healthy Skepticism
Medical technologies are too rarely evaluated with scientific rigor.
By Harlan Krumholz
Frustrated Innovation
Africa's technology community will thrive only by facing up to the continent's fundamental problems.
By Ory Okolloh
Demo
Printing Muscle
Organovo's 3-D printer creates human tissues that could help speed drug discovery.
By Lauren Gravitz
Hack
To Market
Technology Commercialized
A benchtop DNA sequencer, a minuscule set-top box, high-fidelity headphones, an implant for chronic pain, and more.
Q&A
Photo Essay
The Other Side of CES
Every year, visitors swarm the tech show to see slick gadgets. Most miss the unglamorous yet fascinating scene in one corner.
Business Impact
Innovation without Age Limits
They grew up with the Web—now they’re disrupting it. In this issue, Technology Review explores the world of the twentysomethings who are redefining technology business models.
Reviews
Through a Camera, Darkly
The technology of lenses has made art richer and more meaningful for hundreds of years. A Gerhard Richter retrospective shows Germany's most famous artist responding to the camera over a lifetime of painting.
By Martin Gayford
Turing's Enduring Importance
The path computing has taken wasn't inevitable. Even today's machines rely on a seminal insight from the scientist who cracked Nazi Germany's codes.
By Simson L. Garfinkel
83 Years Ago
Putting Death Out to Pasture
One writer wondered if cows' milk was the key to human longevity.
By Timothy Maher
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