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Technology Review: July 2005

Intel’s Breakthrough

Its silicon laser could mean a solution to one of the great challenges facing the semiconductor industry: how to move data fast enough to keep up with tomorrow’s ultrafast computers.

The Fading Memory of the State

The National Archives struggle to save endangered electronic records.

MIT’s DSpace Explained

Electronic repositories stretch to meet scholars’ needs.

Wired to Eat

Overweight Micronesians could help explain the genetics of obesity.

Demo

Art by Numbers

John Maeda leads techno-artists who are pushing the boundaries between computer programming and design.

Datamine

Digital Media Make Their Mark

ore than 50 percent of all U.S. households now have a DVD player, wireless phone, and Internet access. But only 25 percent have broadband.

Financial Indices

Investors Tire of Energy, Think Chips Are Fab

Energy stocks performed poorly; semiconductor stocks did well.

Megascope

Plain Technology

With their creative uses for hydraulic-powered machines, 12-volt conversion technology, fiberglass, and even herbicides, the Amish have a lot to teach the rest of America. By Ed Tenner

Reviews

The Myth of Jonas Salk

It was Albert Sabin’s vaccine, not Salk’s, that truly defeated polio.

Wishful Medicine

The placebo effect is real, but what is it?

On Display: the Unthinkable

A museum tries to make sense of the bomb.

Briefcase

The Willing Partner

Research in Motion’s stock has climbed 800 percent in three years, thanks to a strategy of licensing its hugely successful BlackBerry email software to Nokia and Motorola.

One Decision

By creating its own customized Internet retailing system, coffee distributor Pura Vida has increased sales from $100,000 in 1999 to a projected $4 million in 2005.

Carbon Dioxide for Sale

Dakota Gasification Company was once a defunct coal mine. Now it’s a thriving CO2 recycling plant.

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