Technology Review: February 2005
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Do You Want to Live Forever?
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Aubrey de Grey thinks he knows how to defeat aging. He’s brilliant, but is he nuts?
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Trailing Edge
- Life Vest
- Lester Shubin and Nicholas Montanarelli turned Kevlar into lifesaving armor.
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Features
- Unnatural Selection
- Machines using genetic algorithms are better than humans at designing other machines.
- Terror’s Server
- Fraud, gruesome propaganda, terror planning: the Net enables it all. The online industry can help fix it.
- Dr. Nanotech vs. Cancer
- James Heath has a better way to fight cancer: tiny silicon wires that could sniff out early signs of the disease.
Demo
- Me, Myself, and Eye
- Anil Jain at Michigan State University seeks to improve security by integrating various types of biometrics.
Megascope
- Keeping Tabs
- The history of an Information Age metaphor.
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Reviews
- The Unobservable Mind
- One of Britain’s leading philosophers is skeptical that neurobiology can tell us anything about self-consciousness.
- The End of Oil?
- here are good signs that worldwide oil production is declining. Best hold on tight.
- How Lucent Lost It
- The telecommunications manufacturer was a Potemkin village.
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