Technology Review: March 2001
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An End to Alzheimer's?
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Isolation of key genes at the heart of Alzheimer's disease has set off a frenzied race to find a drug to stop this cruel affliction in its tracks.
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Trailing Edge
- Simple Simon
- The first PC? Set the Wayback Machine to 1950.
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Features
- Electronic Paper Turns the Page
- Guttenberg’s printing press needed paper to make a revolution just as the e-book needs e-paper.
- Beyond the Bar Code
- High-tech tags are great for logistics but could become a privacy nightmare.
- Wires of Wonder
- Nobelist Smalley explains how "carbon nanotubes" will affect everything, from living cells to electrical transmission.
- The Digital Sky
- Tired of sitting on the runway? UPS is testing a satellite-based data communications system that could unclog the skies.
- Flying Made Easy
- New digital technologies could enable you to fly yourself to a community "smartport" in an idiotproof miniplane.
- The Five-Minute Pilot
- When an aviation expert boasted that new gear makes it possible for any 12-year-old to fly a plane, TR’s correspondent put his own son at the controls.
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Columns
- Internet on a Chip
- A new chip helps connect coffeepots and other dumb appliances to the Net. But are we ready?
- A Picture of Health
- Sensors that monitor vital signs will turn our "sick-care" system into one that preserves wellness.
- The Director Next Door
- New filmmaking technologies and Web-based distribution of movies could turn today´s teenagers into a generation of auteurs.
- IP´s Bleak House
- Absurdly broad patents are channeling resources from innovation into lawyers´ pockets.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology