Technology Review: January/February 2000
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Features
- Quantum Dot Com
- If biologists can learn to use devices only a few billionths of a meter across, they could get a far better view of life´s processes. They may even find ways to tinker with the machinery of life, death and disease. Welcome to the world of "nanomedicine."
- Nanomedicine Nears the Clinic
- Minuscule "smart bombs" that find cancer cells, kill them with the help of lasers and report the kills. Sound crazy? Guess again. That treatment scenario may be less than a decade away.
- Computing´s Johnny Appleseed
- Almost forgotten today, J.C.R. Licklider mentored the generation that created computing as we know it.
- California Dreamin´ Sony Style
- Leading Japan´s best-known consumer electronics company into the new world of "convergence" is a very small, very un-Japanese research lab based on an illustrious model: Xerox PARC.
- The Story of the 21st Century
- Tired of your too, too solid flesh? Mild-mannered inventor Ray Kurzweil tells you how to scan your mind into a computer and live forever.
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Columns
- The Enlightenment Bug
- The last millennium saw humanity split among reason, humanism and faith. In this millennium, let´s reunite these essential human activities.
- A Death in Philadelphia
- An experimental gene-therapy treatment kills an eighteen-year-old volunteer in a clinical trial. Is this the final blow for a much-beleaguered technology?
- Nano-Hype
- Just as chip manufacturers reach the limits of silicon´s abilities, nanotechnology will save the day with self-assembling "molecular computers." Sound too good to be true? It is.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology