Technology Review: July/August 2009
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Search Me
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Inside the launch of Stephen Wolfram's new "computational knowledge engine."
By David Talbot
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From the Editor
- On Answers
- Four kinds of search engines.
By Jason Pontin
Notebooks
- Potemkin Trading
- Cap-and-trade alone won't curb emissions.
By David Victor
- Cell Fate
- Why we can't abandon embryonic stem cells.
By Jeanne Loring
- To Search, Ask
- Library science will improve online search.
By Daniel Tunkelang
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Features
- Chasing the Sun
- The federal government is about to spend billions of dollars on renewable energy. In Part II of our series on the federal
stimulus bill, we look at the impact the spending will have on the future of solar power.
By David Rotman
- Medicine's New Toolbox
- An alternative way to make stem cells could open a window on human disease.
By Lauren Gravitz
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Briefing
- Cloud Computing
- Cloud computing has changed how software is developed and used, creating a host of new online services for businesses and consumers.
Reviews
- Carbon Trading on the Cheap
- If the United States wants to build a market-based approach to reducing carbon dioxide emissions, it should learn from Europe's failures.
By Peter Fairley
- A Pound of Cure
- The federal government is about to spend big on health-care IT. Too bad the medical industry has a vested interest in inefficiency.
By Andy Kessler
74 Year Ago in TR
- A Hard Sell
- The Great Depression occasioned a battle over federal funding of science.
By Matt Mahoney
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Fusion Reactions Using Massive Lasers
Massachusetts Institute of Technology