Virus Hunting on the Web
Cholera in Pakistan, Rift Valley fever in Kenya. news of epidemics spreas through the online "CNN of outbreaks."
MIT News: Jan/Feb 2012
TR: Nov/Dec 1998 PDF issue
Technology Review: November/December 1998
The Web´s Unelected Government
A little-known group that holds closed meetings is the closest thing the Web has to a central authority. TR, offers the first in-depth look at this crucial player in the Web´s future.
Egghead Scrambles to Virtual Retailing
Its shops are shuttered, victims of superstore competition. It´s e-commerce or bust.
Bandwidth´s New Bargaineers
Some brash startups are trading telecom capacity as if it were pork bellies.
Web Crawl: Radio Daze
A collector of vintage radios discovers the thrill of online auctions.
Welding Wounds
The science-fiction dream of laser healing is moving closer to reality.
Where the Rubber Meets the Road
A new recipe for asphalt could give highway engineers the tools to repave the world.
Nanotech: Art of the Possible
The potential is mindboggling—from wristwatch-sized reference libraries to submarines in your blood. But there´s plenty of hype, too. A Pioneer in the field sorts the feasible from the fictional.
Columns
Start the e-Bulldozers
Even with computers crawling out of every closet, we don´t seem to be working fewer hours at the office or achieving more. Where aree the "electronic bulldozers" that will free us from routine office toil?
Science-Fiction Policy
In an exaggerated response to a work of science fiction, the U.S. govenment is set to spend hundreds of millions to fight "bioterrism." Is this any way to make public policy?
End R&D "Welfare"
Misguided federal largesse has created an R&D welfare state that does little to promote innovation. It´s time for a revolution.
Viewpoint
The Sound of No Hands Tapping
The opposable thumb helps make us human, yet our technology is relegating dexterity to the sidelines. How should we handle the change?
Under the Dome
Design to Demolition
Sarah Slaughter on the chaotic collaboration of construction.
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