Technology Review: March/April 1999
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God´s Eyes for Sale
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High-resolution satellite images are about to flood the marketplace. They could be good for business, but what will they do for terrorists?
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Features
- Will the Real Nanotech Please Stand Up?
- Researchers are building devices one molecule at a time. TR sorts the possible form the preposterous.
- Chips Go Nano
- Shrinking computer chips have propelled the information revolution. But chip makers are approaching unknown territory.
- Moses of the Nanoworld
- To his followers, K. Eric Drexler is the prophet of nanotechnology. Will he be left behind by the rapidly developing reality of nanoscience?
- The Gene Factory
- An exclusive peek inside the data machine built to beat the Human Genome Project.
- Wavelength Division Multiplexing
- What´s that, you ask? A new technology that´s opening vast realms of capacity in the fibers that carry phone and Internet traffic all over the world. None too soon, either.
- What are the Rules, Anyway?
- In the Alice-in-Wonderland world of the Web, things keep getting curiouser and curiouser. Before you drink that "Drink Me" hear two Berkeley economists
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Columns
- Why 2K?
- Why didn´t we see the problem coming? We didn´t think the old programs would last and we were too excited developing future applications. In other words, we blew it.
- That´s Immortality!
- Embryonic stem cells could someday work like micoscopic fountains of youth. Then again, what´s so great about immortality?
- E Pluribus Euro
- With Japan on the ropes, the chieftains of U.S. high-tech now must worry about the competitive threat from, believe it or not, Europe.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology