Technology Review: November/December 2007
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The Blow-Up
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This summer, as a meltdown in the subprime credit market spilled over into other markets, all eyes were on the mathematically trained financial engineers known as "quants." Who are these guys? By Bryant Urstadt
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Features
- What Is He Doing?
- Twitter is at the heart of the phenomenon called microblogging. Meet its founder, Evan Williams. By Kate Greene
- Measuring the Polar Meltdown
- At a remote outpost in northern Greenland, scientists are attempting to resolve the central mystery of global warming. By David Talbot
Fiction
- Steve Fever
- Countless tiny machines hijack the living, borrowing their hands, eyes, and ears, as the machines strive to resurrect just one man. By Greg Egan
- The Interoperation
- Architecture had given way to software management. So he turned buildings into construction programs. By Bruce Sterling
Hack
- Google Earth
- How Google maps the world. By Simson Garfinkel
Q&A
- William Hurlbut
- How to make embryonic stem cells without embryos. By Michael Fitzgerald
Notebooks
- On Quants
- Financial engineers merely keep the markets running. By Daniel W. Stroock
- Friend Spam
- The founder of Friendster looks at the revolution he started. By Jonathan Abrams
- Sea-Level Riddle
- Determining how fast ice sheets are melting is critical to future policy. By Richard Alley
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Demo
- Virus-Built Electronics
- A new way to fabricate nanomaterials could mean batteries and solar cells woven into clothes. By Kevin Bullis
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