Technology Review: March/April 2000
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Fiber Optics to the Home
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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.
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Features
- 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.
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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?
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology