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Technology Review: September/October 1998

Bell Labs is Dead, Long Live Bell Labs
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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Leading Edge

Matters of Size
From The Editor In Chief

Trailing Edge

The Original Duplicator
Lessons from Innovations Past

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.

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.

Under the Dome

A Rare Sight
MIT´s Best and Brightest

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