Cover Story
The Web´s Unelected Government
A little-known group that holds closed meetings is the closest thing the Web has to a central authority. TR, offers the first in-depth look at this crucial player in the Web´s future.
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November/December 1998
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Featured Story
Virus Hunting on the Web
Cholera in Pakistan, Rift Valley fever in Kenya. news of epidemics spreas through the online “CNN of outbreaks.”
Gary Taubes
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Egghead Scrambles to Virtual Retailing
Its shops are shuttered, victims of superstore competition. It´s e-commerce or bust.
Steve Ditlea
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Bandwidth´s New Bargaineers
Some brash startups are trading telecom capacity as if it were pork bellies.
Katherine Goncharoff
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Web Crawl: Radio Daze
A collector of vintage radios discovers the thrill of online auctions.
Jeff Kennedy
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Welding Wounds
The science-fiction dream of laser healing is moving closer to reality.
Rebecca Zacks
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Where the Rubber Meets the Road
A new recipe for asphalt could give highway engineers the tools to repave the world.
Jill Hect
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Nanotech: Art of the Possible
The potential is mindboggling—from wristwatch-sized reference libraries to submarines in your blood. But there´s plenty of hype, too. A Pioneer in the field sorts the feasible from the fictional.
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Prototype
Ceramics Shape Up
B-2 Bridge
Radio Cuffs
Pocket Rocket
Brain Bubble
You Won´t Feel a Thing
Cheaper Fuel Cells?
The Wet Look
Sticking It to Formaldehyde
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Benchmarks
Lending Your Soul to the Big Screen(s)
Nature´s Nano-beakers
Bugged about the Future of Magnetic Storage?
Remote Calculations
Galileo Goes Digital
Semiconductor Manufacturing: No Tresspassing
A Shining New Therapy
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Pages
Scientific Whitewater
The Shaman´s Vision Stone
The Soldier as Geek
Trackless and Treacherous
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Trailing Edge
Pioneering Pretender
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Columns
Start the e-Bulldozers
Science-Fiction Policy
End R&D “Welfare”
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Viewpoint
The Sound of No Hands Tapping
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Under the Dome
Design to Demolition
