MIT News: Jan/Feb 2012

TR: Dec 05/Jan 06 PDF issue

Technology Review: December 2005/January 2006

The Internet Is Broken

The Net’s basic flaws cost billions, impede innovation, and threaten national security. It’s time for a clean-slate approach.

The Great Chinese Experiment

China is betting its economic health on becoming a world leader in the sciences. But will it succeed?

MRI: A Window on the Brain

Advances in brain imaging could lead to improved diagnosis of psychiatric ailments, better drugs, and earlier help for learning disorders.

Photo Essay

Dirty Oil

Oil companies are, to the chagrin of environmentalists, mining a rich source of bitumen in Canada.

Demo

Sensing Success

MIT’s Scott Manalis shows off his ultrasensitive biomolecule detector.

Hack

The iPod Nano

We voided the warranty so you don’t have to. A look inside Apple’s flashy new toy.

Q&A

Leonard Guarente

The skinny on the fountain of youth

Reviews

In Google We Trust

Internet users should think carefully before relying on Gmail.

The Small Screen

Mobile TV is a new technology with an old business model.

A Tangle of Wires

Could Washington’s approach to cybersecurity be worse? Possibly, if it had an approach.

Notebooks

Newer Math?

A new high-school mathematics might someday model complex adaptive systems.

Molecularly Driven

A physicist becomes an entrepreneur -- and combines her interests in biosensors, biomedicine, and nanotechnology.

Material Alert

Two MIT scientists are designing clothes for soldiers that can "see" colors and "feel" heat and cold.

10 Years Ago in TR

Click "Oh yeah?"

How the Web’s inventor viewed security issues a decade ago.

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