Light Signals Direct
Telecommunications: Local optical networks skip the fibers.
Story Archive
Medical Records, Inc.
Biotechnology: Firm set to mine Framingham Heart Study.
Lying With Pixels
Seeing is no longer believing. The image you see on the evening news could well be a fake - a fabrication of fast new video-manipulation technology.
Silicon Handcuffs
At 45, Bill Gates may be unable to remove the silicon handcuffs of his past success.
Quantum Computing
Computers that tap the bizarre properties of subatomic particles might calculate with awesome speed-cracking codes that stymie conventional machines.
Life in the Fourth Millennium
Science and technology could transform our world-if it weren't for human nature.
Computing Before Silicon
The differential analyzer showed the world machines could compute.
Freedom-Or Copyright?
By legalizing the copying of e-books, we can turn copyright back into the industrial regulation it once was.
Molecular Computing
Imagine computers orders of magnitude more powerful and far cheaper than today's machines. That's one promise of a field that uses individual molecules as microscopic switches.
DNA Computing
DNA-based PCs? Doubtful. But DNA might do some computing-while assembling nanostructures.
