Future Trends

Magazine articles on future trends in science.

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Reason May 2008 Ronald Bailey	'Technology Is at the Center' Entrepreneur and philanthropist Peter Thiel speaks on liberty and scientific progress.
Fast Company May 2008 Anya Kamenetz	The Power of the Prize Lo and behold, contests actually work to spur innovation. So should we use them for everything?
PC Magazine March 17, 2008 Sascha Segan	What's Our 75-Year Tech Plan? What is really going to change the way our society works in the next 75 years? Will it be biotech? Quantum computing? Let's place some long bets
Fast Company February 1, 2008 Elizabeth Svoboda	Fueling The Future The oil well of tomorrow may be in a California lab full of genetically modified, diesel-spewing bacteria.
Wired November 27, 2007 Gregory Mone	Getting a Grip: Building the Ultimate Robotic Hand To do real work in our offices and homes, to fetch our staplers or clean up our rooms, robots are going to have to master their hands.
HBS Working Knowledge November 5, 2007 Sarah Jane Gilbert	The Changing Face of American Innovation Chinese and Indian scientists and engineers have made a large contribution to U.S. technology over the last 30 years, according to research by Harvard professor William R. Kerr. But that trend may be ebbing, with potentially harmful effects on American innovation.
IEEE Spectrum November 2007 Saswato R. Das	Terraforming Mars The renewed focus on Mars has rejuvenated the idea of terraforming Mars, which once belonged to the realm of science fiction, but is becoming increasingly possible today.
Popular Mechanics November 2007 Jeff Wise	Thought Police: How Brain Scans Could Invade Your Private Life In the past decade, a wave of researchers using scans has laid bare the rough schematics of how our brains handle fear, memory, risk-taking, romantic love and other mental processes. Soon, the technology could go even further, pulling back the curtain guarding our most private selves.
Chemistry World October 19, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Building Tomorrow's Nanofactory UK scientists have been granted 2.5 million pounds to invent a nanomachine that can build materials molecule by molecule. Such a robot doesn't -- and may never -- exist, though it has been imagined for over half a century.
IEEE Spectrum October 2007 Neil Savage	Nanowire Silicon Solar Cell for Powering Small Circuits A new type of solar cell made from a nanometer-scale wire might one day provide an on-chip power source for nanoelectronic devices or run microscopic robots, say scientists.
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