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Wired
May 2001
Frank Rose |
Telechasm Can we get to the future from here? First we have to get telecom out of the Stone Age...   |
Wired
April 2001
David Ewing Duncan |
The Protein Hunters Step One: Crack the genome. Step Two: Unlock the molecular structure of amino acids. Step Three: Get ready for the robo-fast, custom-drug future... |
Wired
April 2001 |
Personal Fabrication on Demand Desktop manufacturing from easily transmitted hi-res digital files - think the MP3 explosion, in 3-D. Rapid prototyping, aka RP, has already made its way from industrial proof-of-concept to production uses... |
Wired
April 2001 |
The Plague Years Our global society offers germs a frequent-flier upgrade, even as indiscriminate apps of antibiotics put bad bugs on a strength-and-conditioning program. We've been warned but we're not acting fast enough - so we're about to get our butts kicked... |
Wired
April 2001 |
Debugging Democracy Antique voting gear disappears from polls by the 2008 election. The workhorse voter system of tomorrow is part high tech, part low: It looks like an ATM that spits out a correctly marked, machine-readable piece of paper that can also be counted and definitively checked by human eyes... |
Wired
April 2001 |
The 24/7 Global Marketplace Within five years you will be able to trade the largest 500 multinationals in your local currency on a planetwide, round-the-clock network... |
Wired
April 2001 |
Micropower Goes Macro Businesspeople and homeowners alike are learning that generating their own electricity is cheaper - and more reliable - than buying it from centralized power plants... |
Wired
April 2001 |
Turn on the Light Optical networking will explode, and the way we connect to everything will never be the same... |
Wired
April 2001
Paul Boutin |
Kurzweil's Law Change is accelerating. And so is the acceleration. Say good-bye to the future as we know it... |
Wired
May 2001
Charles Platt |
The Future Will Be Fast But Not Free You want broadband. You'll get it. You'll pay for it. You'll like it. The free ride online is over, but the ride ahead will more than compensate for anything we've lost... |
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