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Emerging Technologies: 2012

May/June 2012

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10 Emerging Technologies
They promise to change the world. But how will their development be funded?
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The Library of Utopia
Google’s ambitious book-scanning program is foundering in the courts. Now a Harvard-led group is launching its own sweeping effort to put our literary heritage online. Will the Ivy League succeed where Silicon Valley failed?
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People Power 2.0
How civilians helped win the Libyan information war.

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- Feedback
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- Bases to Bytes
  Cheap sequencing technology is flooding the world with genomic data. Can we handle the deluge?
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- Connected Conflict
  The Internet amplified but did not create the bravery that freed Libya.
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- Many Libraries
  As the world’s books go online, we must resist centralization.
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- Competing Faster
  We need to develop the deployment of advanced materials.
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- Iridescent Displays
  Qualcomm uses the mechanism that gives color to butterfly wings to make low-power, full-color e-reader displays.
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- Custom Printing
  A desktop 3-D printer builds plastic objects layer by layer
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- How Brain Imaging Could Help Predict Alzheimer’s
  The discovery could one day allow doctors to catch the disease before it’s done irreversible damage.
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- Dave Morin
  The creator of a social network for close friends and family says smart phones will make computing more intimate than PCs did.
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- Building Tesla
  At its electric-car factory in Silicon Valley, Tesla obsesses over details like making its own high-tech tools. Photographs by John Stocklin
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- Social Intelligence
  Siri may not be the smartest AI in the world, but it’s the most socially adept.
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- Can Energy Startups Be Saved?
  If small companies are to survive in the highly competitive energy business, they’ll have to work with the large companies they once hoped to replace.
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- Laser Eraser
  A beam of light removes toner from printed paper so it can be used again
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- Milestone for Personalized Medicine
  A detailed study predicts the onset of diabetes and shows that treatment works
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- Smarter Biofuel Bugs
  A molecular sensor boosts biodiesel production
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- Burning Batteries
  A DVD drive can make high-energy electrode materials
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- Books on Tape
  A group led by Harvard academics hopes to compile a library of everything. One forward thinker from 1961 might have asked: What took you so long?
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Magazine

Emerging Technologies: 2012

Letter from the editor

Features

10 Emerging Technologies

The Library of Utopia

People Power 2.0

Feedback

Bases to Bytes

Connected Conflict

Many Libraries

Competing Faster

Iridescent Displays

Custom Printing

How Brain Imaging Could Help Predict Alzheimer’s

Dave Morin

Building Tesla

Social Intelligence

Can Energy Startups Be Saved?

Laser Eraser

Milestone for Personalized Medicine

Smarter Biofuel Bugs

Burning Batteries

Books on Tape

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