Technology Review: March/April 2008
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From the Editor
- How to Stay Young
- The easy part is understanding a new technology; what's harder is to think creatively about it.
By Jason Pontin
Letters
- Letters
- Letters from our readers.
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Features
- A Technology Surges
- In Iraq, soldiers conducting frontline street patrols finally get software tools that let them share findings and plan missions.
By David Talbot
- Microsoft's Shiny New Toy
- Photosynth is an application that's still a work in progress. It's dazzling, but what is it for?
By Jeffrey MacIntyre
Essay
- Art Games
- Digital artists are using game technologies to create bold new works.
By Christiane Paul
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Q&A
- Walter Bender
- One Laptop per Child's president for software and content explains why the program's strategy has changed.
By Larry Hardesty
Visualization
- Between Friends
- Sites like Facebook are proving the potential value of the "social graph." Here's what it looks like.
By Erica Naone
Reviews
- Android Calling
- Does Google want to free your phone--or own it?
By Simson Garfinkel
- The Mess of Mandated Markets
- New federal biofuel standards will distort the development of innovative energy technologies.
By David Rotman
- The Digital Utility
- Nicholas Carr's new book examines the implications of cloud computing.
By Mark Williams
Hack
- Amazon Kindle
- With Amazon selling a digital reader, e-paper has gone mass-market.
By Daniel Turner
7 Years Ago in TR
- The Power of Thought
- Research in neural-implant technology has made gains.
By Michael Patrick Gibson
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology