Technology Review: April 2003
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Surveillance Nation
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Webcams, tracking devices, and interlinked databases are leading to the elimination of unmonitored public space. Are we prepared for the consequences of the intelligence-gathering network we´re unintentionally building?
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- The bar code: reading between the lines.
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Features
- Countdown for Rocket Planes
- Planes powered by cheap reusable rockets could be the future of space transportation. But don´t look to NASA: the initiative is coming from a group of small, maverick companies.
- Life Made to Order
- Efforts to create custom-made organisms-one DNA letter at a time-could yield new sources of energy or novel drugs.
- Paperless Medicine
- Doctors use surprisingly low tech ways to keep track of patient information-sometimes with fatal results. Despite high costs and cultural barriers, electronic record keeping is starting to bring medicine into the digital age.
- The Observant Computer
- Carnegie Mellon´s Alex Waibel aims to turn computers into astute observers that sense our needs-and even our emotions.
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Columns
- Class Struggle
- High tech and higher learning aren´t always a match made in heaven.
- The Best Segue for Segway
- To be a success, the famous balancing motor scooter will need more than state-of-the-art engineering.
- Big Ivory Takes License
- Universities should take a lesson from IBM´s nonexclusive patenting practice.
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