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Technology Review: March 2005

Follow the Money

If you want to predict the future of emerging technologies, track whos spending what.

Introducing the Technology Review Index

Keeping an eye on business.

The Ascent of the Robotic Attack Jet

Building the planes is easy. Making them autonomous, and constructing airborne communications networks, is not.

Implanting Hope

For the first time, a paralyzed patient has operated a prosthetic arm using just his mind.

Demo

The Art of Interfaces

Artistic, functional devices from MIT’s Media Lab, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year.

Megaphone

The Darwinian Interlude

Biotechnology will do away with species. Good: cultural evolution is better than natural selection.

Megascope

Kalashnikov’s Gun

The AK-47 and Russian engineering.

Reviews

Hack License

Recent books struggle to define hacking and its economic and social legitimacy.

Chronic Pain

Why we still need a strong, healthy FDA.

The Password Is Fayleyure

Today’s password schemes are unworkable and offer little security for users.

Briefcase

Genetic Savings and Clone: No Pet Project

Can it cash in on cloned cats?

Cycorp: The Cost of Common Sense

How do you survive when it could take decades to build your product?

Microsoft: Getting from "R" to "D"

The software giant’s Beijing lab is spearheading a new way to turn research into products.

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