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Technology Review: March/April 2000

Fiber Optics to the Home

Fiber optics has helped push the telecommunications system into hyperdrive. But only when fiber connections reach all the way into the home will the technology´s promise be fully realized.

Mind over Muscles

When two emerging technologies meet, paralyzed people can move their limbs - just by thinking about it.

High Stakes for Gene Therapy

After a decade of disappointment and a teenager´s death, this experimental treatment faces a crucial test. Can it cure hemophilia?

The Bell Labs of Biology

This chemist´s dream is to understand how the human body works - molecule by molecule.

Software Patents Tangle the Web

A profusion of new software patents on Internet business methods puts our notions of intellectual property to the biggest test yet.

Companies Squeeze the Patent Pipeline

The Technology Review Patent Scorecard shows corporations focusing more than ever on intellectual property-but with sharply contrasting strategies.

Columns

The Value of Content

The father of the MPEG says a wired world needs a way to acquire-and pay for-content online.

E-mail: Freedom or Jail?

Are you ready to send and receive ten times as much e-mail as you do today? Probably not. We all need to adopt e-mail survival strategies: birth control and euthanasia.

Strategic Patience

Bob Swanson, the founder of Genentech, embodied virtues that today´s venture capitalists are badly in need of.

Not Com

Am I old-fashioned? It offends me that Mary Meeker, "Queen of the Internet," earned $15 million last year.

Viewpoint

Digital Land Grab

Media corporations are stealing our cultural heritage. Can we take it back?

Mixed Media

Flashing the Web

An elegant animation technique is sowing delight-and confusion.

Hey, Mr. MP3 Man
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