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Dr. E-mail Will See You Now
Is software that replies to customers automatically the key to success in e-commerce? Ask the doctor.
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January/February 2000
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Quantum Dot Com
If biologists can learn to use devices only a few billionths of a meter across, they could get a far better view of life´s processes. They may even find ways to tinker with the machinery of life, death and disease. Welcome to the world of “nanomedicine.”
David Rotman
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Nanomedicine Nears the Clinic
Minuscule “smart bombs” that find cancer cells, kill them with the help of lasers and report the kills. Sound crazy? Guess again. That treatment scenario may be less than a decade away.
David Voss
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Computing´s Johnny Appleseed
Almost forgotten today, J.C.R. Licklider mentored the generation that created computing as we know it.
M. Mitchell Waldrop
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California Dreamin´ Sony Style
Leading Japan´s best-known consumer electronics company into the new world of “convergence” is a very small, very un-Japanese research lab based on an illustrious model: Xerox PARC.
Bob Johnstone
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The Story of the 21st Century
Tired of your too, too solid flesh? Mild-mannered inventor Ray Kurzweil tells you how to scan your mind into a computer and live forever.
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Leading Edge
Boundary Effects
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Prototype
Slick Surgery
Explosive Data Storage
Two-Tone Laser
Organics Onscreen
Brain Drain
Dark Vision
Krazy Keys
Nanofresh Water
Fiber in Your Tank
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Benchmarks
G-Commerce
Sorting Out Life
Satellites, Silicon, a Startup
Every Word a Link
Gifts that Keep Giving: Patents
Digital Wireless
Sugar-coated Medicine
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Software Frontier
Lunar Thrills
Time, in Brief
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Trailing Edge
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