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Technology Review: November 2003

Special Report: Software Goes Extreme

PC legends Charles Simonyi´s and Mitch Kapor´s upstart ventures aim to create software that does what you want it to do and never crashes. Our exclusive report brings you to the front lines of the new software revolution.

Everyone’s a Programmer

Software is collapsing under the weight of its own complexity, but Charles Simonyi’s has a simple solution.

Trash Your Desktop

Mitch Kapor’s new, more intuitive computer interface puts all the information we need to manage our digital lives at our fingertips.

From Artificial Intelligence to Artificial Biology?

The ultimate goal for programming: software that heals itself.

Extreme Programming: The Zero G Experience

How a software company saved itself.

Stopping Pain

Insights into the neuroscience behind pain are spawning a new generation of drugs.

Instant Manufacturing

Machines that create products directly from digital files are efficient and cost effective.

Demo

Demo: Waterproof Anything

MIT professor Karen Gleason can waterproof just about anything by coating it with an ultrathin layer of Teflon.

Columns

Toward a Brain-Internet Link

Surfing the Web via chips implanted in your brain isn´t as far-fetched as you might think.

Apple-Picking Time in PC Land

Apple´s recent advances in compatibility make Macs network with PCs better than PCs do.

Little Bang for the RFID Buck

Radio frequency identification tags flounder as innovators figure out how to best use them.

Point of Impact

Radio Freedom

Next-generation-wireless-networks researcher David P. Reed on radio spectrum allocation.

Launch Pad

The RNA Cure?

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals is poised to commercialize drugs made from RNA molecules.

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