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Technology Review: May 2005

10 Emerging Technologies

Of the numerous technologies now in gestation at companies and universities, we have chosen 10 that we think will make particularly big splashes. They range from bacterial factories to silicon photonics to quantum wires and any one of them could change your world.

The Infinite Library

Does Google’s plan to digitize millions of print books spell the death of libraries; or their rebirth?

Environmental Heresies

The founder of The Whole Earth Catalog believes the environmental movement will soon reverse its position on four core issues.

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Big Spenders

These six men oversee more than $120 billion in research and technology investments in the United States.

Financial Indices

British Invasion

BAE Systems and WPP Group advance.

Megaphone

Whither the Renaissance Man?

We need to save the diversity of the individual.

Megascope

The Trouble with the Meter

Why the metric system may never rule.

Reviews

How the Fed Learned to Love Technology

Alan Greenspan avoided the mistakes of his Federal Reserve predecessor.

The Economics of Brains

A collection of research papers touts the promise of neuroeconomics.

Greenhouse Gas

Michael Crichton’s new novel fingers the wrong villains in global warming.

Briefcase

Starting Up, Post-Bubble

Two search veterans want to do it again.

A Breakthrough Isn’t Enough

Transmeta was to be a market-grabbing pioneer in chips.

Research in Development

IBM builds services-based R&D.

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