Future Trends

Magazine articles on future trends in science.

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Wired April 2003 Kevin Kelleher	Starlight Express Nanotech's promise is out of this world. Just ask Brad Edwards, who's planning to build a carbon-nanotube elevator that goes 62,000 miles straight up.
Wired April 2003 Sonia Zjawinski	Future Fetish In 10 years of technolust, we've found plenty of gear that gets our pulse racing. But we always want more. Here's our wish list for 2013.
Wired April 2003 Fred Hapgood	Sub-Urban Renewal Thanks to new tunneling technologies, real estate trends are down. Way down.
Technology Research News February 26, 2003	Alloy lowers fuel-cell cost Scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have found a way to make fuel cells that are potentially cheaper and easier to manufacture than previous prototypes. The method is a step toward making the relatively clean energy-generating technology commercially viable.
PC World March 2003 Sean Captain	2003 and Beyond What's next? Smaller hardware, wireless everywhere, and (at long last) true convergence.
Reason February 2003 Ronald Bailey	The Battle for Your Brain Science is developing ways to boost intelligence, expand memory, and more. But will you be allowed to change your own mind?
Wired February 2003 Douglas McGray	The Marshall Plan For 40 years, the man Pentagon insiders call Yoda has foreseen the future of war -- from battlefield bots rolling off radar-proof ships to GIs popping performance pills. And that was before the war on terror.
CIO January 1, 2003 Lew McCreary	Life with Everyone Watching Dan Geer, CTO of security vendor @Stake, thinks that the expense of password-based security systems may lead to a cheaper, less-private world where everything people do is inexpensively logged and stored.
CIO January 1, 2003 Megan Santosus	Just-In-Time Mobs The most resounding effect of pervasive computing will be social changes.
CIO January 1, 2003 Tom Wailgum	Application Apparel Chances are, you've already seen someone with wearable computing gear and just not realized that beneath that geeky-looking guy's coat was the same technology you have on your desktop.
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