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What’s Next for Google

Running the Web’s best search engine isn’t enough: Google wants to organize all digital information. That means war with Microsoft.

The Problematical Dr. Huang Hongyun

Can an experimental technique using transplanted fetal cells help paralyzed patients? Probably not. But a doctor in China is forging ahead anyway.

The Future of Books

Jason Epstein was a publisher for more than 40 years. Now in retirement, he wants to replace Gutenberg with a digital press.

What We Can Learn from Robots

For Japan’s Mitsuo Kawato, robotics is important because it explains how the human brain works, not because it could yield artificial humanoids.

Demo

Cure for a Broken Heart

SynCardia Systems of Tucson, AZ, has built a bridge for patients awaiting transplants.

Megaphone

A New Idea for Publishing

Smart Web ads could restore the balance between publishers, their audience, and advertisers.

Megascope

Digital Dandies

To understand the market for gadgets, you need to understand fashion.

Reviews

Technology and Happiness

Why getting more gadgets won’t necessarily increase our well-being.

Toward a New Vision of Manned Spaceflight

President Bush wants to give NASA a second life. Good.

The Zen of Airport Kiosks

Technology’s gift of mindlessness and painlessness.

Briefcase

Amazon: Giving Away the Store

Sometimes it makes sense to give away your core assets.

Mitsubishi: Out Front in Nanotech

Advance diplomacy may help the Japanese giant sidestep opposition to nanoparticle manufacturing.

Military Vaccine Studies: On Trial

Critics say the U.S. military is wasting millions on a doomed AIDS-vaccine trial in Thailand.

Obituary

The Third Man
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