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Calling Dr. Internet
The Wall Street Journal has a piece penned by Benjamin Brewer, M.D., about the effect that the online availability of medical information – and specifically, diagnostic information – is having on traditional Western medicine. The essence of the piece is…
How the Net Was Won
The United Nations is debating the future of the Internet now, and the prevailing thought, at least according to this BBC account, is that the world isn’t too happy about the United States’ decision to keep control over much of…
DHS Elevates Cyber-Security Post
The Washington Post reports that the Department of Homeland Security has elevated the post of cyber-security director. Previously, the position was five organizational rungs below the DHS Secretary; now it will be just two rungs below the secretary….
Do We "Get" the Social Impact of Tech?
Michael Zimmer, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Culture and Communication at New York University, has posted an interesting critique of our August 2005 issue. That issue was devoted to describing the social impact of some new technologies -…
Help Me Write About Mesh Networks
I’ve decided that my column for the October print edition of Technology Review will be about mesh networks. I will blog some of my initial thoughts soon - I will be trusting to you, my readers, to help me refine…
Misguided Greenpeace
The international environmental organization Greenpeace is against ITER, the recently agreed-upon nuclear fusion reactor that will reside in France. (See the recent Technologyreview.com article on the reactor.) It’s too expensive, they say (about $15 billion dollars), and the money could…
'Social Machines' Enters the Blogosphere
The ideas in our "Social Machines" feature (Technology Review version, blog version) are starting to provoke responses here and there on the Web. It seems that the story’s timing was about right. Of course, we were far from the first…
Lift Off...or, the Thrill is Gone
Rain may delay today’s shuttle launch (kudos to one of our interns, Heather, and her connections at NASA). However, the long-awaited launch of the shuttle may still happen today at 3:53 Eastern, and I’m excited. Like others of my generation,…
Death Penalty for Virus Writers?
John Tierney has an interesting Op-Ed piece in yesterday’s New York Times in which he discusses the 21-month suspended sentence given to the author of the dreaded Sasser worm, which closed businesses, halted trains, and grounded airplanes, to quote Tierney….
The Death of Print? Not Yet.
I made some informal remarks at the IMAG Magazine Leadership Conference in Atlanta, Georgia recently; the theme of my speech was the growth and significance of electronic media. The purpose of my remarks was to educate an audience of print…
