Technology Review: September/October 2000
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The Great Gene Grab
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Will the frenzy of gene patenting drive innovation-or stifle medical advances?
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Features
- LEDs Light the Future
- Roll over, Tom Edison. Drawing on new semiconductor technology, muscular offshoots of those dainty colored dots could shine bright white light that illuminates the world.
- The Case for Gene Patents
- Drug development cannot thrive without them, argues the CEO of Human Genome Sciences
- The Media Lab at a Crossroads
- Fierce competition, radical expansion, a dubious funding model and maybe even a new director spell the end of an era. Can a trailblazing enterprise survive and thrive?
- Toward Sharing the Genome
- Here are five ways to achieve balance between public and private access to the human genome.
- Internet Everywhere
- Handheld devices are taking computers from personal to intimate. A new generation of wireless network is coming that could keep everyone connected all the time.
- Who Really Invented Television?
- Revisionist history says RCA, but in truth it was a Mormon farm boy named Farnsworth. His struggles presaged the battle between Bill Gates and Netscape.
- Akamai´s Algorithms
- Tom Leighton has the formula for going from MIT math professor to Internet gazillionaire.
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Columns
- Not By Reason Alone
- Should we stop computer science research to prevent the evolution of intelligent machines that might someday surpass humanity? Absolutely not.
- Botstein´s Caveat
- Scientists have declared the human genome completely decoded. But a look back at the beginnings of their quest reveals how far we still have to go.
- Digital Rules Needed
- From e-tail taxes to limits on MP3, government regulation of information technologies is not only justified-it´s necessary.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology