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Can Technology Save the Economy?
The U.S. stimulus bill includes tens of billions to support energy and information technologies. It is intended both to create jobs immediately and to set the stage for long-term economic growth. So why are economists and innovation experts so skeptical?
By David Rotman
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From the Editor

A Manifesto
Newspapers and magazines won't vanish. But they will change.
By Jason Pontin

Contributors

Contributors

Notebooks

Stimulating Green Energy
How promoting renewable-energy technologies will help the economy.
By Joseph Romm
Internet Arms Race
Whether the Internet will help or hinder the spread of democracy is still uncertain.
By John Palfrey
Eschew Enhancement
Memory-boosting drugs should not be made available to the general public.
By Michael K. Ahlijanian

Features

Manipulating Memory
Drugs that alter traumatic recollections offer new hope for treating anxiety disorders. They could also change the way we think about memory.
By Emily Singer
Dissent Made Safer
How anonymity technology could save free speech on the Internet.
By David Talbot

Essay

First Life and Next Life
Synthetic biology is a new field, but it's targeting an old question: How did life begin?
By David Deamer

Q&A

The Silver Lining
Entrepreneurialism and innovation during a recession.
By Jason Pontin

Photo Essay

Hunt for Dark Matter
New detectors may finally reveal dark-matter particles.
By Katherine Bourzac

Reviews

Light, but not Lightweights
Netbooks are more than just cheap laptops.
By Simson Garfinkel
A Lifelike Prosthetic Arm
Thanks to a new surgical procedure, arm amputees can intuitively control a bionic limb for the first time.
By Michael Rosenwald
Telling
To a few human experts, our faces--and deepest emotions--are open books. Now computer technology automates those experts' abilities.
By Mark Williams

Demo

Nanotubes Come into Fashion
Textiles coated with carbon nanotubes look like ordinary cotton.
By Katherine Bourzac
Electronic Textiles Being Made

28 Years Ago in TR

The Webs We Weave
Lie detection has never been straightforward.
By Matt Mahoney

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