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The Internet Is Broken

December 2005

The Net’s basic flaws cost billions, impede innovation, and threaten national security. It’s time for a clean-slate approach.

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Features

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The Great Chinese Experiment
China is betting its economic health on becoming a world leader in the sciences. But will it succeed?
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MRI: A Window on the Brain
Advances in brain imaging could lead to improved diagnosis of psychiatric ailments, better drugs, and earlier help for learning disorders.

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- Letters
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- Cooler on a Chip
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- Refrigeration Unplugged
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- Ceasing Amniocentesis
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- A Helping Arm
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- CT Scan to Go
  First portable CT scanner for heads could fit in an emergency room.
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- Detecting Blood Loss
  A simple finger-clip device is able to monitor blood loss accurately – without the need for more invasive or expensive procedures.
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- Wee Walker
  A wobbly new molecule called DTA is moving in a straight line toward nanomanufacturing.
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- Game Boy Rock
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- Nano Antenna
  Gold nanospheres show a path to all-optical computing.
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- Virtual Economics
  A Q&A with Philip Rosedale, founder and CEO of Linden Lab, a virtual market-driven community.
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- Changeable Fingerprint
  If someone steals your fingerprint, “cancelable biometrics” software from IBM can issue a new one.
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- Photo Essay: Dirty Oil
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- Demo: Sensing Success
  MIT’s Scott Manalis shows off his ultrasensitive biomolecule detector.
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- Q&A: Leonard Guarente
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- In Google We Trust
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- The Small Screen
  Wireless phone companies, broadcast networks, and software makers are in a cautious, cutthroat dance to bring mobile TV to U.S. cell-phone users.
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- A Tangle of Wires
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