Technology Review: July/August 2007
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Second Earth
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The World Wide Web will soon be absorbed into the World Wide Sim: an immersive, 3-D visual environment that combines elements of social virtual worlds such as Second Life and mapping applications such as Google Earth. What happens when the virtual and real worlds collide? By Wade Roush
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From the Editor
- A Virtually New Web
- The collision of virtual reality and mapping brings excitement to cyberspace.
Letters
- Letters
- Letters from our readers.
Photo Essay
- NASA's Next Telescope
- Hubble's successor will use a batch of new technologies. By Brittany Sauser
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Hack
- The Nintendo Wii
- A game console with underwhelming graphics wins with neat controllers. By Daniel Turner
Q&A
- George Whitesides
- The Harvard chemistry professor and nanotech pioneer turns to energy. By Kevin Bullis
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Reviews
- Iris Scanning, Now at JFK
- Registered-traveler programs offer a quicker and more convenient journey, at a cost in privacy. By Bryant Urstadt
- Artificial Societies and Virtual Violence
- How modeling societies in silico can help us understand human inequality, revolution, and genocide. By Mark Williams
- Brain Boosters
- Our reporter enters the new world of neuroenhancers. Smart move? By David Ewing Duncan
22 Years Ago in TR
- Web 0.1
- Before the Internet came videotex. By Micael Patrick Gibson
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