Technology Review: September/October 1998
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Bell Labs is Dead, Long Live Bell Labs
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Confounding the skeptics, this jewel of big-time corporate R&D has gained new luster—even in basic research—by focusing its scientific endeavors on solving real-world problems.
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Featurs
- The Next Biotech Harvest
- Now poised to move from labs to fields; genetically altered plants that could yield not only better foods but also fabrics, plastics and pharmaceuticals.
- Ted Nelson´s Big Step
- He dreamed up the idea of hypertext as a way to link all human knowledge decades before the World Wide Web—but never delivered a usable piece of software.
- Enter the Dragon
- By taking big risks—in business and in research—a husband-and-wife team of entrepreneurs has brought speech recognition to the desktop years before the experts thought it would be possible.
- Making Needles Needless
- Vaccines of the future are going to come in a remarkable array of forms: nasil sprays, nose drops, flavored liquids, skin patches, even fried food.
- That Mess on Your Web Site
- Fixing a few common design mistakes would make the Web a far more pleasant and useful place to hang out, says a guru of interactive interfaces.
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Columns
- Wire All Schools? Not So Fast...
- The jury is still out on how valuable computers are for education—so let´s not succumb to political fashion and rush to wire all our students.
- Miracles of Saint Judah
- When it comes to reporting on cancer "breakthroughs," journalists fall back on the same old myths.
- High-Tech Hubris
- Beware the high-tech hubris of a venture capitalist who doesn´t understand the political game.
Viewpoint
- Stealing Calm: An Ode to Radio
- Despite its one-lane avenue of sensory impact, radio beats television and the Web at conveying memorable information and deep feeling.
Web Crawl
- World Wide Words
- When research lab sites strut their stuff online, they leave their imagination behind.
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