Technology Review: October 2003
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TR100/2003
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Technology Review presents our third class of 100 innovators 35 or younger whose technologies are poised to make a dramatic impact on our world. We report on the changes afoot in four major disciplines.
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Letters
- Letters
- Insights and opinions from our readers
Prototype
- Prototype
- Straight from the lab: technology´s first draft
Trailing Edge
- Simple Screening
- How a Greek doctor accidentally discovered one of the most effective cancer-screening tests.
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Features
- The Internet Reborn
- A grass-roots group of leading computer scientists, backed by Intel and other heavyweight industrial sponsors, is working on replacing today´s Internet with a faster, more secure, and vastly smarter network: PlanetLab.
- Revitalizing Drug Discovery
- Hoping to squeeze more products out of a sputtering drug pipeline, pharmaceutical makers are Aiming to exploit advances in molecular biology. That means changing everything from their corporate cultures to the nature of their university collaborations.
- GE Finds Its Inner Edison
- Jeffrey Immelt, a former salesman now chairman and CEO of General Electric, tells why he has a "hot button" on technological innovation-and why he´s beefing up R&D in nanotechnology, molecular imaging, hydrogen power, and more.
- Ten Technologies That Deserve to Die
- Some technologies are so blatantly obnoxious that the human race would rejoice if they were summarily executed. A humorist and science fiction writer offers some candidates.
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