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  Quantum Dot Com

  If biologists can learn to use devices only a few billionths of a meter across, they could get a far better view of life’s processes. They may even find ways to tinker with the machinery of life, death and disease. Welcome to the world of “nanomedicine.”
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  Nanomedicine Nears the Clinic

  Minuscule “smart bombs” that find cancer cells, kill them with the help of lasers and report the kills. Sound crazy? Guess again. That treatment scenario may be less than a decade away.
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  Computing’s Johnny Appleseed

  Almost forgotten today, J.C.R. Licklider mentored the generation that created computing as we know it.
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  California Dreamin’ Sony Style

  Leading Japan’s best-known consumer electronics company into the new world of “convergence” is a very small, very un-Japanese research lab based on an illustrious model: Xerox PARC.
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  The Story of the 21st Century

  Tired of your too, too solid flesh? Mild-mannered inventor Ray Kurzweil tells you how to scan your mind into a computer and live forever.