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Technology Review: June 2002

The State of Innovation

We peek into the future from technology´s cutting edge.

The Rules of Innovation

Bringing new technology to market is a crap shoot, right? Wrong, says innovation guru Christensen. Follow his four rules to a new science of success.

Cloning Can´t Be Stopped

Controversy has surrounded the advent of every reproductive technology from artificial insemination to in vitro fertilization. Still, human cloning, like its forerunners, will happen.

Myhrvold´s Exponential Economy

Microsoft´s former technology chief is branching out. He´s looking for industries where efficiencies multiply every couple of years—in infotech, sure, but biology too.

10 Technology Disasters

What do a 17th-century Swedish warship, an opulent Chicago theater and a Kansas City hotel "skyway" have in common? All met catastrophic ends—and they have important lessons to teach today´s innovators.

Leading Edge

They Make the Future Happen

From the editor in chief

Prototype

Prototype

Straight from the lab: technology´s first draft.

Trailing Edge

For Those About to Rock, We Salute You

Lloyd Loar designed the best mandolins ever made, prized by musicians and collectors. Oh, and he built the first electric guitar.

Columns

Leaky Cyber Borders

A U.S. shield against foreign spam and hackers: national security or censorship?

Mimetic Management

Innovators sell customers on keeping up with the Joneses—or the Gateses.

Science Goes Medieval

Geneticists agree: hoarding information hurts science—and public health.

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