MIT News: Jan/Feb 2012

Technology Review: January/February 2010

Security in the Ether

Information technology's next grand challenge will be to secure the cloud--and prove we can trust it.
By David Talbot

Trading Shares in Milliseconds

High-speed automated buying and selling of financial shares dominates the market. Will it lead to the next financial meltdown?
By Bryant Urstadt

The Geoengineering Gambit

As climate policy stalls, scientists and policy experts consider desperate plans to cool the earth.
By Kevin Bullis

From the Editor

On the Evolution of Technology

New technologies are missing many things, but especially their markets.
By Jason Pontin

Contributors

Contributors

Notebooks

Integrating the Clouds

The next step in cloud computing is to link different systems.
By Vinton Cerf

Why Geoengineering?

We should study the costs and consequences of solar radiation management.
By M. Granger Morgan

The New News

"Journalism" and "the media" are not synonymous.
By Jay Rosen

Q & A

Mike Lynch

The cofounder and CEO of Autonomy explains why Nicole Kidman is not a cosmic ball of gas.
By Jason Pontin

Hack

How to Photograph the Earth

Photos from near space for less than $150.
By Erica Naone

Photo Essay

The Lithium Rush

In the Bolivian Andes lies a vast salt flat that may shape the future of transportation.
By Antonio Regalado

Briefing

Media

We assess the technologies that are destroying old ways of doing business and look into what will be left when the dust settles.

Reviews

Shoveling Water

Why does it take so long to commercialize new technologies?
By David Rotman

True Match

How does the matching algorithm of the popular dating service suggest potential mates?
By Emily Gould

The Future of Human Spaceflight

Are astronauts close to extinction?
By Jeff Foust

Demo

Nervy Repair Job

Douglas Smith mechanically stretches living nerves to grow resilient transplants.
By Kristina Grifantini

How the Nerve Stretching Technique Works

35 Years Ago in TR

A Change in the Weather

Rainmaking efforts during the Vietnam War prompted an international ban.
By Matt Mahoney

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