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Technology Review: April 2005

What Matters Most Depends On Where You Are

Technology Review looks at technological projects and problems in selected countries.

Brazil

Chile

China

United States

South Africa

Germany

Netherlands

E-Commerce Gets Smarter

By bringing new Web technologies into their stores, retailers are changing shopping in ways no one expected.

Race and Medicine

Population genomics is expanding our knowledge of human diversity. What role should race have in drug development?

Demo

Online at CentCom

U.S. Central Command Headquarters is more wired than ever. A look indide the nerve center for the Iraq War.

Megaphone

Political Networking

Political choices, as much as technological innovation, define the structure of new media.

Megascope

Engineers and Political Power

Some have it, some don’t.

Reviews

Wild Profits

The Arctic refuge may soon be in the hands of Big Oil. Will it drill clean?

Letter From Davos

The founder of Red Herring and AlwaysOn traveled to the World Economic Forum annual meeting and reported back to Technology Review’s editor, Jason Pontin.

Freeze Frame

The Polar Express was a remarkable advance in digital animation. Why didn’t audiences respond?

Briefcase

TransÉnergie: Playing Two Power Games

Laying a new transmission line under Long Island Sound was easy. Navigating the political waters wasn’t.

Sun Microsystems: Blog Heaven

Hundreds of Sun employees write web­logs about their work. Does all this chatter add up to better business?

Spalding: An Idea with Bounce

One breakthrough ball design infused a stagnant brand with new vitality.

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