Fantastic Light
From the editor in chief
Communications
The Microphotonics Revolution
Get ready for optical switching in the telecommunications network backbone, then an all-optical Internet, and finally optical integrated circuits. The amount of data we can get almost anywhere will skyrocket.
Canada Gets Private
Legislation: Federal law aims to protect personal information.
Light Signals Direct
Telecommunications: Local optical networks skip the fibers.
Life in the Fourth Millennium
Science and technology could transform our world-if it weren't for human nature.
Freedom-Or Copyright?
By legalizing the copying of e-books, we can turn copyright back into the industrial regulation it once was.
Benevolent Microsoft?
Winners, Losers, and Microsoft: Competition and Antitrust in High Technology
