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Wired December 2001 Adam L. Penenberg |
The Surveillance Society Cell phones that pinpoint your location. Cameras that track your every move. Subway cards that remember. We routinely sacrifice privacy for convenience and security. So stop worrying. And get ready for your close-up... |
Reason December 2001 Jeremy Lott |
Gas tax alternative When new technologies eliminate the need for cars to burn fossil fuels, how will governments collect tax revenues to build and maintain roads? A new study by the University of Iowa is testing an innovative and perverse solution: Bug the cars... |
PC World December 5, 2001 Peggy Watt |
Microsoft Research Offers Peek Into Future Lifelike graphics, planetary databases, and eloquent PCs are emerging from the labs, says director Rashid... |
Fast Company December 2001 Christine Canabou |
Better Than Human Futurist Christopher Dewdney imagines a future where none of us is naturally human anymore. In the future, biological lines will be defined by economics: those who can afford to manipulate their DNA and those who can't... |
CIO December 1, 2001 John Edwards |
Eyesight to the Blind A team of researchers from three universities is working on artificial vision technologies that could one day detect visual patterns as effectively as the human brain... |
CIO November 15, 2001 John Edwards |
Speak Easy Using the Web as a catalog of English... |
Wired November 2001 Cynthia Fox |
Technogenarians The pioneers of pervasive computing aren't getting any younger. One has created the world's most technologically advanced old-age home, a model of what is being termed gerontechnology. .. |
PC World November 8, 2001 Tom Spring |
Will the Web Someday Link Food, Bodies? The X Internet will link tiny, pervasive clients with common tasks, say analysts, vendors... |
PC World November 8, 2001 Douglas F. Gray |
AMD Offers a Look Down its Road Athlon XP forecast to shrink to 0.10-micron in 2003, producing fast, energy-efficient chips... |
Salon.com October 24, 2001 Douglas Cruickshank |
A Hello Kitty you can drive The future is pregnant with friendly, mood-sensitive cars. Fasten your seat belt, it's going to be a really, really cute ride... |
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