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Technology Review: September 2003

Boeing´s Flight for Survival

The 7E7 could set new efficiency standards, thanks to lightweight materials, smarter sensors, and a streamlined design process. But can it pull Boeing out of a market nosedive and revitalize struggling airlines?

WhereWare

Soon, hardware and software that track your location will be providing directions, offering shopping discounts, and aiding rescue workers-services that promise a windfall for ailing telecom carriers.

Reinventing the Transistor

Hewlett-Packard is betting that it can build computers whose functionality rests on the workings of individual molecules. It´s blue-sky research, but if it works, it will push computing far beyond the limits of silicon.

A Sharper Picture of Health

Powerful new imaging technologies pinpoint the molecular events involved in diseases, promising a safer alternative to biopsies.

O.R. of the Future

Massachusetts General Hospital doctors lead a tour of what they hope will be the world´s most efficient operating room.

Letters

Letters

Insights and opinions from our readers.

Prototype

Prototype

Straight from the Lab: Technology´s First Draft

Trailing Edge

From Bulletin Boards to Blogs

Online communities thrived long before the advent of Web logs.

Columns

Kill the Operating System!

When designing computers, companies could take a lesson from Hollywood.

The Customer as Enemy

Why constrain customers instead of creating
greater choices for them?

Full of (Soy) Beans

A worrisome Monsanto patent claims exclusive rights over all genetically engineered soybeans.

Point of Impact

Technology Can´t Tame Terror

Former El Al security head Isaac Yeffet on how technology fails air safety.

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Wireless Fidelity

How Wi-Fi works.

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