Technology Review: April 2002
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Handhelds of Tomorrow
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Think thumb keyboards and portable hard drives—not the overhyped notions of cell phone Web browsers and "pen-based computing."
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Features
- Why Missile Defense Won´t Work
- From the archives: An MIT expert on national security technology tells us why the current missile defense project won´t ever be able to do its job—and offers a better alternative (from the April, 2002 issue).
- Postol vs. the Pentagon
- Ted Postol is challenging the government´s claims about a proposed a missile defense system. He´s a prickly character, but he has a track record that´s hard to beat.
- The Virtual Cell
- With human cells distilled into digital models, testing the effectiveness of a new drug could be as simple as typing a few lines into a computer.
- Motorola´s Superchip
- Silicon is cheap; "compound semiconductors" are fast. Combining the two could yield cheaper cell phones and DVD players.
- Lord of the Robots
- The director of MIT´s Artificial Intelligence Lab says the age of smart, mobile machines is already beginning. You just have to know where to find them—say, in oil wells.
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Visualize
- Haptics
- A glove and mechanical assembly let you feel the unreal.
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