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Is software that replies to customers automatically the key to success in e-commerce? Ask the doctor.
If biologists can learn to use devices only a few billionths of a meter across, they could get a far better view of life´s processes. They may even find ways to tinker with the machinery of life, death and disease. Welcome to the world of "nanomedicine."
Minuscule "smart bombs" that find cancer cells, kill them with the help of lasers and report the kills. Sound crazy? Guess again. That treatment scenario may be less than a decade away.
Almost forgotten today, J.C.R. Licklider mentored the generation that created computing as we know it.
Leading Japan´s best-known consumer electronics company into the new world of "convergence" is a very small, very un-Japanese research lab based on an illustrious model: Xerox PARC.
Tired of your too, too solid flesh? Mild-mannered inventor Ray Kurzweil tells you how to scan your mind into a computer and live forever.
From the editor in chief
Almon Strowger let us do our own dialing.
The last millennium saw humanity split among reason, humanism and faith. In this millennium, let´s reunite these essential human activities.
An experimental gene-therapy treatment kills an eighteen-year-old volunteer in a clinical trial. Is this the final blow for a much-beleaguered technology?
Just as chip manufacturers reach the limits of silicon´s abilities, nanotechnology will save the day with self-assembling "molecular computers." Sound too good to be true? It is.
The stock market loves the New Economy. But does our retreat from manufacturing in favor of e-commerce spell economic disaster?
This near-magical laser technology has become trinketware, and only one artist has really exploited its potential.
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