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The Web’s Unelected Government

November/December 1998

A little-known group that holds closed meetings is the closest thing the Web has to a central authority. TR, offers the first in-depth look at this crucial player in the Web´s future.

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Features

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Virus Hunting on the Web
Chlorea in Pakistan, Rift Valley fever in Kenya. news of epidemics spreas through the online “CNN of outbreaks.”
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Egghead Scrambles to Virtual Retailing
Its shops are shuttered, victims of superstore competition. It’s e-commerce or bust.
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Bandwidth’s New Bargaineers
Some brash startups are trading telecom capacity as if it were pork bellies.
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Web Crawl: Radio Daze
A collector of vintage radios discovers the thrill of online auctions.
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Welding Wounds
The science-fiction dream of laser healing is moving closer to reality.
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Where the Rubber Meets the Road
A new recipe for asphalt could give highway engineers the tools to repave the world.
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Nanotech: Art of the Possible
The potential is mindboggling–from wristwatch-sized reference libraries to submarines in your blood. But there’s plenty of hype, too. A Pioneer in the field sorts the feasible from the fictional.

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Magazine

The Web’s Unelected Government

Features

Virus Hunting on the Web

Egghead Scrambles to Virtual Retailing

Bandwidth’s New Bargaineers

Web Crawl: Radio Daze

Welding Wounds

Where the Rubber Meets the Road

Nanotech: Art of the Possible

Ceramics Shape Up

B-2 Bridge

Radio Cuffs

Pocket Rocket

Brain Bubble

You Won’t Feel a Thing

Cheaper Fuel Cells?

The Wet Look

Sticking It to Formaldehyde

Lending Your Soul to the Big Screen(s)

Nature’s Nano-beakers

Bugged about the Future of Magnetic Storage?

Remote Calculations

Galileo Goes Digital

Semiconductor Manufacturing: No Tresspassing

A Shining New Therapy

Scientific Whitewater

The Shaman’s Vision Stone

The Soldier as Geek

Trackless and Treacherous

Pioneering Pretender

Start the e-Bulldozers

Science-Fiction Policy

End R&D "Welfare"

Design to Demolition

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