Cover Story
Why Software Is So Bad
For years we´ve tolerated buggy, bloated, badly organized computer programs. But soon, we´ll innovate, litigate and regulate them into reliability.
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July/August 2002
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Wind Power for Pennies
Windmills may finally be ready to compete with fossil-fuel generators. The technology trick: turn them backwards and put hinges on their blades.
Peter Fairley
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The Wireless Arcade
They don´t have fancy 3-D graphics, but video games for handheld devices stand poised to capture a huge U.S. market. Why? Because we all have to wait.
David Kushner
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Antibody Drug Revival
The human immune system is still the best resource for fighting disease. After a decade of failed promise, drugs that exploit it are finally flooding the market.
Gary Taubes
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Ghana´s Digital Dilemma
The lesson from West Africa: good computers and fast modems don´t matter if you can´t get a dial tone and the power keeps going out.
G. Pascal Zachary
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The Programmable Building
The MIT Media Lab´s Neil Gershenfeld tours the building of the future, where interchangeable power sockets, switches and appliances snap into the walls—then plug into the Internet.
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