Future Trends

Magazine articles on future trends in science.

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BusinessWeek August 4, 2003 Joan O'C. Hamilton	Who Wants to Be a 150-Year-Old? A modern band of Ponce de Leons comes to life in the intensely researched and well-written Merchants of Immortality: Chasing the Dream of Human Life Extension by ace science writer Stephen S. Hall.
Wired August 2003 Brendan I. Koerner	8 Super Powers Forget Science Fiction. Here's the Science.
Wired August 2003 Clive Thompson	The Antigravity Underground The fantastic floating device called a lifter has no moving parts, no onboard fuel, and no shortage of wide-eyed admirers. Even inside NASA.
Wired August 2003 Wil McCarthy	Being Invisible Next-gen optical camouflage is busting out of defense labs and into the street. This is technology you have to see to believe.
Wired July 2003 Gregg Easterbrook	We're All Gonna Die! But it won't be from germ warfare, runaway nanobots, or shifting magnetic poles. A skeptical guide to Doomsday.
PC World July 2003 Andrew Brandt	Privacy Watch: Tracked by the Shirt on Your Back? Radio frequency technology has the potential to identify us all.
Industrial Physicist Konstantin Likharev	Hybrid Semiconductor-Molecular Nanoelectronics Many physicists and engineers believe that the impending crisis due to limitations in CMOS technology may be resolved only by a radical paradigm shift from purely CMOS technology to hybrid semiconductor-molecular circuits.
Technology Research News May 21, 2003 Eric Smalley	Hydrogen storage eased The discovery of metal-organic frameworks promises to remove the principal stumbling block to hydrogen-powered cars, and the method could be ready for production use within five years.
Wired June 2003 Luc Steels	Roam Free: How Space Perception Seperates Man From Machine Combining sensory perception and spatial reasoning remains elusive, which explains why robots lack a true sense of space.
Wired June 2003 Larry Smarr	Microcosmos The new space race is the battle for more and more control over less and less.
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