Technology Review: March 2002
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The Nanotube Computer
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The nano future is emerging through the haze of hype: the road to terabit memory and cheap flat-screen displays will be paved with carbon nanotubes.
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Prototype
- Prototype
- Straight from the lab: technology´s first draft.
Trailing Edge
- Video Game Odyssey
- The start of a worldwide obsession: white dots on a TV screen.
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- A.I. Reboots
- "Artificial intelligence" used to mean robots that think like people; now it means software for rejecting junk e-mail. Low expectations could yield better applications, sooner.
- Merck´s Mission: An AIDS Vaccine
- With a hugely ambitious new research program, the pharmaceutical giant has revived the hunt for a vaccine to prevent AIDS. Will others follow?
- From PlayStation to PC
- Whether you play them or not, video games are good for you. These exercises in interactivity are spurring advances in interfaces and 3-D graphics that will benefit all computer users.
- Digital Railroad
- Forget "content" and "branding." For freight railroads, information technology spells better ways to haul coal, lay steel and pour crushed stone.
- Planet Internet
- Achievements to date: Internet backbone, Web browser. So when Larry Smarr takes the reins of a new $400 million institute and starts talking about intelligent highways and digital genomics, people listen.
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Upstream
- Systems Biology
- The map of the genome is just the rule book; "systems biology" is the ball game.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology