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Bettering Ourselves Through Biotech: Greater Productivity, Sharper Memories, Hair Feathers Beefing up muscle without steroids or hormones; rejuvenating damaged skin and heart tissue; ratcheting up memory function. Therapies that promise to enhance human abilities are nearing the marketplace. Funding, however, is hard to come by these days.   |
Bio-IT World
August 13, 2002
Mark Hall |
Clusters and Candy Wrappers Our lives are shaped by those byproducts of the space race, from CAT scans and kidney dialysis to satellite communications, advanced weather forecasting, and fuel cells. The genomic research revolution will likely provide similarly widespread and unpredictable benefits. |
CIO
August 1, 2002
John Edwards |
You Talking to Me? When Nassir Navab talks to inanimate objects, they usually answer him. That's because Navab, a Siemens researcher, helped develop a system that gives industrial equipment the power to vocally answer questions posed by humans. |
PC World
July 22, 2002
Sean Captain |
Future Gear: Spielberg's Computer Many technologies from the movie Minority Report are tantalizingly close to becoming real. They just need more attention from developers. |
Salon.com
July 10, 2002
Ian Rothkerch |
Will the future really look like "Minority Report"? Jet packs? Mag-lev cars? Two of Spielberg's experts explain how they invented 2054. |
Wired
August 2002
Sonia Zjawinski |
Stepford Child She speaks when spoken to, she's a teacher's pet ... heck, she's got a photographic memory. Chips and cams and computer programs -- that's what Cindy Smart is made of. |
Reason
July 2002
Jesse Walker |
Artifact: Skin Deep Behold the VeriChip, a new device the size of a grain of rice. Once implanted in you, it stores personal information and transmits it to a voyeuristic scanner. |
Home Toys
June 2002
Galaasen & Hengl |
Robotic Technology Has Arrived With the increased use of microchips in equipment such as appliances, heating and cooling systems, entertainment systems, fire and burglar alarms and the general trend towards home automation, advanced personal robotics naturally follows. |
Fast Company
July 2002
Alison Overholt |
Technorecovery? First technology produced the boom. Then it brought the bust. Will it now lead us into another round of gizmo-led growth? Are there cool new things to spark our imagination (and jump-start the stock market)? We asked five of the smartest techies, analysts, and investors around. |
Wired
July 2002
Scott Kirsner |
Citizen Plane One of the pioneers of personal computing has a plan to reinvent aviation. Now if he can just get the future of flying off the ground. |
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