Future Trends

Magazine articles on future trends in science.

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Knowledge@Wharton	From R2D2 to Spirit and Beyond: What's in Store for Intelligent Robots? While we tend to imagine robots in terms of sci-fi adventures and movies, or as legions of automatons replacing human workers in the job force, the truth may be more mundane and less sinister.
InternetNews January 23, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	ZigBee Key to Jetsons-style Living Two-way, low-data-rate chips will be central to the connected home of the future, say analysts.
BusinessWeek February 2, 2004	Microvision Puts A Scanner On Your Cap Microvision, a leader in scanners, keeps luring big customers. CEO Richard Rutkowski has signed up Honda Motor, Boeing, Stryker, and the U.S. Army. Microvision makes Nomad, an enhanced-vision system mounted on a baseball cap. It uses a scanning mirror and a beam of light to project images on the user's retina.
InternetNews January 16, 2004 Jim Wagner	Cyberspace, The Next Battlefield Is World Cyber War I somewhere on the horizon? A new report shows the increased popularity of converged networks like VoIP makes it more likely.
Popular Mechanics January 2004 Christopher Allbritton	The Home Network Chances are you have a computer at home connected to the Internet. Are you ready for a refrigerator that's also connected? And how about an entire network of home appliances, all accessible over the Net, and all talking to each other when you're not at home.
Reason January 2004 Mike Godwin	Cybergreen An interview with novelist Bruce Sterling on media, design, fiction, and the future
PC Magazine December 24, 2003 John R. Quain	Homeland Security Gets Small Ultimately, fighting the war on terrorism may have less to do with giant aircraft carriers and more to do with atomic-scale detection and prevention systems.
Technology Research News December 17, 2003 Kimberly Patch	PDA translates speech Handheld computers are getting powerful enough, and speech recognition software accurate enough, that travelers, soldiers and aid workers in foreign countries could soon have automatic speech translation in hand. A prototype Arabic-English medical translator is a significant milestone.
PC Magazine December 4, 2003	Mining for Meaning The days of translation and natural-language software insisting on spewing amusingly idiotic interpretations may be headed for the history books.
Reason December 2003 Ronald Bailey	The Smaller the Better The limitless promise of nanotechnology -- and the growing peril of a moratorium.
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