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David Talbot
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I’m MIT Technology Review's chief correspondent, keeping an eye most often on the world of information and communication technologies—and asking my kids when I don’t understand what’s going on. Recent projects have taken me to Kenya to write about mobile-phone-based health initiatives, and Germany to explore how they’ll ramp up renewable power while closing down nuclear plants. My 2008 feature on the Obama campaign’s social-networking operation was selected for The Best Technology Writing 2009.
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The Great German Energy Experiment
Germany has decided to pursue ambitious greenhouse-gas reductions—while closing down its nuclear plants. Can a heavily industrialized country power its economy with wind turbines and solar panels?
Battle of the Electronic Wallets
Mobile-phone carriers are seeking a beachhead in phone-based payments. Only problem? Google got there first.
The Comeback of Xerox PARC
Infamous for failing to commercialize the technologies it invented, Xerox's R&D subsidiary has a new strategy for innovation: make money.
Security Researchers Rain on Amazon's Cloud
Experts find way to modify controls within Amazon's cloud service, but the hole is quickly plugged.
Chasing the African Cloud
Safaricom launches what it calls Africa's largest cloud service to help fuel a Kenyan IT boom.
How IT Costs More Jobs than It Creates
A new book challenges the standard view that technological advances are always good for employment.
A Federal Jump-start for Health IT
Farzad Mostashari leads push to improve health-care IT with billions in stimulus funds.
New Technology Brings Offshoring to Villages
The Xerox CTO describes research that allows manufacturing and office workers to avoid commuting to traffic-choked Indian cities.
New Technology Brings Offshoring to Villages
The Xerox CTO describes research that allows manufacturing and office workers to avoid commuting to traffic-choked Indian cities.
