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Social Machines

August 2005

Computing means connecting.

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Letter from the editor

From the Editor: The Hundred-Dollar Laptop

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Your Genomic Diet
Your genetic profile could be the key to staying healthy and eating right.
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Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise?
The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan wants to show that modernization can be enlightened.

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- Home Smart Home
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- Global Wind Power
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- Cosmic Competition
  For fresh ideas, NASA is turning to students, hobbyists, and hackers.
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- Prototype
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- Web Dynasty
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- Can Small Be Big Again?
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- Computing Is a Trip
  Finding and funding the dreamers
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- Putting the Fun Back in Tech
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- Wireless Nonstop
  Continuous computing now makes it easy to share your life.
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- Dealflow: Funding of Innovative Startups
  Caspian Networks and Quorum Systems
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- From the Lab: Information Technology
  Digital lighting after movie-shooting, a more-intelligent Web searching tool, and audio ‘thumbnails’ to find online music faster
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- From the Lab: Biotechnology
  Engineered E. coli bacteria signal environmental changes and dividing cells could mend tissue after heart attacks.
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- From the Lab: Nanotechnology
  A new lens allows optical microscopy down to 60 nanometers and faster plastic electronics – using an ink-jet printer.
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- Socialized Computing
  The founder of craigslist is obsessed with customer service.
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- Machine in Motion
  MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab pushes the limits of today’s robotic technology.
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- Online Recreation
  From news-gathering and shopping to dating and gambling – a look at what we do on the Web
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- Up, up, and…which way? East.
  Some Asian tech stocks look cheap.
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- Hypermotivational Syndrome
  Many young people are using drugs not to drop out but to get ahead.
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- Summer Stuff
  Technology Review empties its beach bag of gadgets, gizmos, and other entertainments.
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- The Dream of a Lifetime
  Doug Engelbart and augmenting human intellect.
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- Abused Substances
  The “stepfather of ecstasy” believes psychedelics are unfairly anathematized.
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- The Business of Blogging
  Could it make money?
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- One Decision
  Why Microsoft delayed releasing the sequel to its most successful videogame for a year.
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- The Digital Pit Boss
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- Geek Activity Page: Web Libs
  Build a content filter that rewrites the Web – your way, Mad Lib style!
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Magazine

Social Machines

Letter from the editor

Features

Your Genomic Diet

Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise?

Letters

Home Smart Home

Global Wind Power

Cosmic Competition

Prototype

Web Dynasty

Can Small Be Big Again?

And More…

Double-Helix Diet

Computing Is a Trip

Putting the Fun Back in Tech

Wireless Nonstop

Dealflow: Funding of Innovative Startups

From the Lab: Information Technology

From the Lab: Biotechnology

From the Lab: Nanotechnology

Socialized Computing

Machine in Motion

Online Recreation

Up, up, and…which way? East.

Hypermotivational Syndrome

Summer Stuff

The Dream of a Lifetime

Abused Substances

The Business of Blogging

One Decision

The Digital Pit Boss

Geek Activity Page: Web Libs

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