Technology Review: September 2002
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Digital Cinema, Take 2
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Film offers the best color and clarity, but in Hollywood´s effects houses, computers rule. Moviemakers must expertly blend both media.
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Prototype
- Prototype
- Straight from the lab: technology´s first draft
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Features
- Nanotech by the Numbers
- It´s virtual reality, writ small: atom-by-atom simulations of new materials could usher in the nanotech future sooner than anybody imagined.
- The Flight that Tamed the Skies
- Glenn Curtiss´s aeronautical innovations outlasted the Wright brothers´. But his biggest contribution to aviation was an Albany-Manhattan flight many deemed suicidal.
- The Technology of Megaterror
- A veteran presidential science advisor examines bioterrorism, dirty bombs and smuggled nukes—and details how to stop them.
- Ultrawideband Squeezes In
- A newly approved radio technology promises wireless home electronics and positioning systems accurate to the centimeter. But opponents say it could also mean dead cell phones, thwarted satellite reception—even plane wrecks.
- Cloning Cows
- With just homemade needles and some cells from an ear biopsy, Jose Cibelli of Cyagra demonstrates how to build a blue-ribbon steer.
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Columns
- Firewall Follies
- The complacency firewalls breed is ultimately more damaging than the computer pirates they keep out.
- Push-Button Innovation
- The telecom industry doesn´t need more bandwidth. It needs ways to get people to use the bandwidth they have.
- Of Oncomice and Men
- What the U.S. could learn about patenting life forms—and about civic engagement—by looking to Canada.
Upstream
- Polymer Memory
- Computer memory could soon earn the ultimate commercial validation: the cheap plastic knock-off.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology