Upwardly Mobile
An Indian startup thinks that the right software can make cheap phones a financial lifeline to millions.
By David Talbot
MIT News: Jan/Feb 2012
TR: Nov/Dec 2008 PDF issue
Technology Review: November/December 2008
Sun + Water = Fuel
With catalysts created by an MIT chemist, sunlight can turn water into hydrogen gas. If the process can scale up, it could make solar power a dominant source of energy.
By Kevin Bullis
The Flaw at the Heart of the Internet
Dan Kaminsky got people to fix a fundamental security problem in the Internet. We were lucky this time.
By Erica Naone
From the Editor
Dear Mr. President
By Jason Pontin
Contributors
Letters
Notebooks
Dear Mr. President
Three experts suggest technology policies for the new president.
Managing Power
We need a portfolio of proven low-carbon energy technologies, says Ernest Moniz.
Digitizing Health Care
We need new incentives For electronic record keeping, says John Halamka.
Reasserting Competitiveness
Invest in education, research, and innovation, says Charles Vest.
Forward
What Does Apple Want?
Programmers bemoan the fickleness of the iPhone's gatekeepers.
New Nukes
Could safer reactor designs end decades of stagnation?
Hard Road for Medical Treatments
Promising studies are often refuted later.
Waves of Electrons
Surface plasmons could improve solar cells and wireless devices.
Genetic Geography
Genomic analysis reveals Europeans' places of origin.
The Video Web
Three startups let users layer new content onto online video.
Essay
Nuclear Deterrence in the Age of Nuclear Terrorism
Better detection technologies and an international alliance could prevent an attack on a large city.
By Graham Allison
Fiction
Glass
An experimental drug makes people who lack empathy take a hard look in the mirror.
By Daryl Gregory
The Distant Sound of Engines
In a rural hospital, Lenny hears a message of staggering importance from the man in the next bed. Will he get it?
By Algis Budrys
Q&A
Linda Avey and Anne Wojcicki
The founders of 23andMe want to know your genome.
By Emily Singer
Photo Essay
The Brain Unveiled
A new imaging method offers a novel view of neural structures.
By Emily Singer
Reviews
The Alien Novelist
The science fiction of Algis Budrys, who died in June at the age of 77, showed that the genre can produce literary art.
By Mark Williams
Wikipedia and the Meaning of Truth
Why the online encyclopedia's epistemology should worry those who care about traditional notions of accuracy.
By Simpson L. Garfinkel
iTube
Why 23,201 people care that Justine Ezarik just ate a cookie.
By Emily Gould
Hack
How Smart Is a Smart Card?
A smart card's RFID chip reveals the algorithms that control it.
By Erica Naone
Demo
Fuel-Cell Power-Up
A new membrane increases the output of methanol fuel cells by 50 percent.
By Kristina Grifantini
52 Years Ago in TR
The Privilege of Being Wrong
Then and now, we face the problem of determining what is true.
By Matt Mahoney
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