Technology Review: January/February 2001
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Trailing Edge
- Tiny Bubbles
- Desktop printing was revolutionized by a misplaced soldering iron.
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Features
- What New Economy?
- "I resist the idea that there is a new economy-something that is separate and distinct from some other economy."
- Kurzweil vs. Dertouzos
- Two of technology´s deepest thinkers in a dialogue on the future of humanity.
- Ten Passed Technologies
- New isn´t necessarily better. The attic of discarded technologies contains objects whose simplicity and elegance have never been replaced.
- Where Have All the Computers Gone?
- Historical analysis from 2020 explains how computers emerged-and then disappeared.
- Computing Goes Everywhere
- The dream of "ubiquitous computing" has been around for a while. Now it´s serious enough that a company like IBM is willing to throw $500 million at it.
- Nanotech Goes to Work
- Nanoscale machinery could deliver denser computer memories and faster heart attack diagnosis.
- Medicine Gets Personal
- Drug designers will soon be able to tailor medications to the patient´s unique genetic makeup, doing more good and less harm.
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Columns
- Handheld Heaven
- They´re not just for to-do lists: Handhelds are becoming the platform for ubiquitous computing.
- Khmer Kids Link to the Future
- Beginning to wonder were the real payoff of digital technology is? One answer: Cambodia.
- The Kids Are All Right Online
- The Web offers many teens a refuge. Adult attempts to make this haven "safer" will diminish its value.
- Populist Power Tools
- Purveyors of "content" take heed: Knowledge will not remain a shrink-wrapped commodity.
Reviews
- Customers as Innovators
- Michael Schrage reviews A Nation Transformed by Information edited by Alfred D. Chandler Jr. and James W. Cortada and Systems, Experts and Computers edited by Agatha C. Hughes and Thomas P. Hughes
Visualize
- DNA Chips
- They can analyze thousands of genes at a time. Here´s how.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology