Future Trends

Magazine articles on future trends in science.

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Bio-IT World September 2006 John Russell	Informatics Cornucopia Predictive Informatics, the hopeful title of a session at last month's Drug Discovery Technology & Development World Congress, remains an enticing but mostly elusive goal. Asked what systems biology would look in five years and what will constitute success, panelists offered the following.
Fast Company September 2006 Tracy Staedter	Good Vibrations Take a step, and you generate 6 to 8 watts of energy -- which then dissipates into thin air. But now an architectural firm in London is looking at ways to capture that energy on a mass scale and turn it into electricity.
IEEE Spectrum September 2006 Gorbis & Pescovitz	Bursting Tech Bubbles Before They Balloon IEEE Fellows take a hard-nosed look at what technology is -- and isn't -- on the horizon. Computer Science... Telecommunications... Electronics... Physics... etc.
Scientific American August 2006 Mihail C. Roco	Nanotechnology's Future Over the next two decades, this new field for controlling the properties of matter will rise to prominence through four evolutionary stages.
National Defense July 2006 Stew Magnuson	Wars Giving Boost To Cutting Edge Technologies If history is any indication, some of the military funded innovations will not only live, but make a positive impact on society as a whole and drive the U.S. economy throughout the coming decades.
PC Magazine June 15, 2006 Sebastian Rupley	Beyond The Brain Entrepreneur Ray Kurzweil believes the hardware and software necessary for computers to operate at a human level is in the near future.
Geotimes June 2006 Stephen L. Gillett	A Nanotechnology Revolution for the Geosciences Wastewater streams, acid-mine drainage, seawater, concentrated natural brines such as those in oilfields or saline lakes -- sometimes viewed now as problems -- all could become potential sources of materials with the help of nanotechnology.
IEEE Spectrum June 2006 Rao R. Tummala	Moore's Law Meets Its Match By 2010, the "More Than Moore's Law" movement -- which focuses on system integration rather than transistor density -- will lead to revolutionary megafunction electronics.
Bio-IT World May 2006 John Russell	Kurzweil: Life Is the Fast Lane Inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil's opening keynote at the Bio-IT World Life Sciences Conference + Expo painted an optimistic vision of a world governed by growing information technologies that will transform what it means to be human.
Bio-IT World May 2006 Kevin Davies	Microsoft's 2020 Vision for Science The Microsoft Research report Towards 2020 is considered the first report to articulate a comprehensive vision of science towards 2020, particularly the impact of the convergence of computer science and the other sciences.
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