Technology Review: April 1997
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Creating The People´s Computer
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One of the nation´s foremost computer scientists, exasperated by the unfriendliness of today´s computer systems, suggests what designers can do to make machines serve human needs—rather than the other way around.
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- Melding Mind and Machine
- The computer and the human brainwork differently. Instead of trying to force one to emulate the other, designers would do better to ensure complementarity.
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Features
- When the Sun Disappears and Dolphins Do Back Flips
- During total eclipses of the sun, at least one ancient culture performed mass human sacrifice to placate the gods. While our understanding of these celestial phenomena has grown, the author rediscovers the scientific curiosity they engender.
- Defusing Airline Terrorism
- A variety of high-tech bomb detectors are under study, but certification, cost, and privacy dilemmas could keep them from your local airport.
- Dividing the Water
- Water may seem to be everywhere, but for a rising portion of the world´s population, there may soon be hardly a drop to drink -or to use for growing food, supporting industries and cities, and preserving life-giving ecosystems.
- An Artist Explores the Lab
- A recent photography exhibit goes behind the closed doors of major laboratories to shed fascinating light on the research shaping modern life.
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Columns
- From Here to Eternity
- Digitized memorabilia such as home videos and family photograph albums can last forever. But they may well drown our descendents in accumulated megabytes
- Bringing High Tech to Low-Income People
- From Seattle to Newark, nonprofit community-based organizations are now teaming up with high-tech companies to reinvigorate inner-city economic life.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology