A Zero-Emissions City in the Desert
Oil-rich Abu Dhabi is building a green metropolis. Should the rest of the world care?
By Kevin Bullis
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TR: Mar/Apr 2009 PDF issue
Technology Review: March/April 2009
The 10 Emerging Technologies of 2009
Technology Review presents its annual list of 10 technologies that could change the way we live.
But Who's Counting?
No one really knows how many people visit websites. A San Francisco startup and Google are both working to change that.
By Jason Pontin
From the Editor
Technology and Optimism
Why technologists are so confident.
By Jason Pontin
Contributors
Letters
Notebooks
Global Health
Medical tests for poor countries need to be properly field-tested.
By José Miguel Trevejo.
Solving AI
Why we need a new language for artificial intelligence.
By Pedro Domingos
Green Nuclear
Nuclear power should be part of the renewable-energy portfolio.
By Andrew Kadak
Forward
TB Drug Compliance
Paper drug tests and text messaging could help thwart the most deadly strains of tuberculosis.
Nanotube Electronics
Prototypes bring practical nanotube devices closer
Buzz Meter
Data mining sheds light on what makes news.
Electric Avenue
Amid a welter of high-profile announcements, electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids will remain rare sights.
The CAPTCHA Arms Race
Researchers mull the next step in spam deterrents.
Networking Stays Connected
Communications companies buck the fourth-quarter slide.
Essay
The Family Business
Modern physics through the generations.
By Gino Segrè
Q&A
America's First CTO?
Cisco's Padmasree Warrior tells us what role a U.S CTO should play.
By David Talbot
Photo Essay
Growing Nanotube Forests
Carefully grown carbon nanotube arrays could be the basis of new energy storage devices and chip cooling systems.
By Katherine Bourzac
Reviews
Personalized Campaigning
Fattened voter databases will prove to be among the 2008 presidential race's most enduring legacies.
By David Talbot
A Hole in the Genome
A small chunk of DNA chunk may change how we think about disease.
By Emily Singer
Our Own Devices
Why we love the machines we shouldn't.
By Emily Gould
Hack
Sharing Fingerprints
Hackers can manipulate outdated algorithms to give documents the same digital signature.
By Erica Naone
Demo
Laser Show in the Surgical Suite
Lasers and a dye could supplant needles and thread.
By Lauren Gravitz
30 Years Ago in TR
A Dream in the Desert
An architect's quixotic but enduring quest to change the way we live.
By Matt Mahoney
A Dream in the Desert
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