Technology Review: September/October 1999
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Computing After Silicon
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How will computers be built after 2015? Hewlett-Packard´s Stan Williams thinks he has a good recipe. It´s not perfect-but that´s the beauty of it.
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Trailing Edge
- Got A Light?
- English inventor John Walker brought the power of Prometheus to our fingertips.
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Features
- Delayed Takeoff
- Five years ago, the FAA set out to revolutionize air traffic control. Their comprehensive plan failed to attain airspeed-will an incremental approach fly before aerial gridlock sets in?
- Mining the Genome
- The Human Genome Project piles up Everests of data. But getting new drugs out of it will require sophisticated software for sniffing out patterns—one of the most crucial tasks of the hot field known as bioinformatics.
- Rewriting the Bible in 0´s and 1´s
- Since the 1960s, Donald Knuth has been writing the sacred text of computer programming. He´s a little behind schedule, but he has an excuse: he took time out to reinvent digitial typography.
- May the Micro Force Be With You
- After a decade of hype, microscopic mechanical systems are poised to make major changes in the size of our cell phones, the reliability of our communications systems-even the way "Star Wars" is shown.
- The Knowledge Lab
- Launched by NCR—famed for cash registers and ATMs—this showy lab in London hopes to define e-commerce. But some say it´s more PR than R&D.
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Columns
- Privacy Is Not Doomed
- We can solve the electronic privacy problem, if we can just agree on how much privacy we really want.
- This Is No Fish Story
- The tale of Centocor is the latest reminder that the road to biotech success is seldom straight. Despite the best business plans, something keeps getting in the way. It´s called biology.
- Net? Nyet!
- E-commerce will not conquer all. On the Web, as in real life, the rich will get richer.
Viewpoint
- Money Goes Downmarket
- In an era of information abundance, the road to financial ruin has become a superhighway.
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