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Technology Review: February 2003

10 Emerging Technologies That Will Change the World

Technology Review identifies the developments that will dramatically affect the way we live and work-and profiles the leading innovators behind them.

Creating a Culture of Ideas

Nicholas Negroponte says expertise is overrated. To build a nation of innovators, we should focus on youth, diversity, and collaboration.

Supercomputing Resurrected

Last year, Japan fired up an ultrafast computer that puts its closest competitors to shame. What will it take for the United States to catch up?

Personalized Medicine´s Bitter Pill

Drugs tailored to an individual´s genetic makeup promise to be safer and more effective, but they raise tricky economic and ethical questions.

Robot Sky Patrol

Unmanned aerial vehicles could help tame wildfires, unsnarl traffic jams, and even find a better cup of joe.

Leading Edge

To Congress: Let´s Get Physical

From the editor.

Letters

Letters

Insights and opinions from our readers.

Prototype

Prototype

Straight from the lab: technology´s first draft.

Trailing Edge

No P-N Intended

A cracked crystal launched the silicon revolution.

Columns

The Free-Software Imperative

For human rights groups, commercial software could be fatal.

The Weight of Innovation

Want people to use an innovation? First make it worth the effort.

The Weakening Links

U.S. law is disturbingly supportive of Internet censorship.

Point of Impact

Choosing Our Children´s Genetic Futures

Bioethicist Gregory Stock on the inevitability of designer babies.

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The Smart Antenna

How a smart antenna works.

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