June 2000 Archives

Technology in 2010

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The New York Times has a large section on different technologies we can expect in the future: 'The Blind Date Who Is Your Destiny,' 'The Genetic Report Card That Will Tell You If Your Embryo Will Get Prostate Cancer,' 'The Mind That Moves Objects' and 29 more. From a quick glance there seems to be little about global issues of any kind, methods of environmental improvement being a noticeable omission. Maybe that's just not sexy. (via Slashdot)

The future of computers

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A series of Technology Review articles about the possibilities for the future: molecular, quantum, biological and DNA computing and more. (via Slashdot)

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