Technology Review: May/June 2008
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An Electrifying Startup
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A new lithium-ion battery from A123 Systems could help electric cars and hybrids come to dominate the roads.
By Kevin Bullis
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From the Editor
- The Heroic Age
- On the natural philosophy of elementary particles.
By Jason Pontin
Letters
- Letters
- Letters from our readers.
Notebooks
- Veterans in Need
- Brain-injury survivors in the U.S. military need far better care.
By Representative Bill Pascrell
- The New Collider
- The large hadron collider may solve nature's great mysteries.
By Jerome Friedman
- Desultory D-Wave
- D-Wave may not have made a working quantum computer.
By Scott Aaronson
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Features
- Electric Cars Primer
- Hybrids, plug-ins, and extended-range electric cars are hitting the market. Use this interactive primer to learn how they work.
- Una Laptop por Niño
- The philanthropic effort dubbed the $100 laptop has not met its grand initial goals. But its first deployment, in Peru, may turn skeptics into believers.
By David Talbot
- Brain Trauma in Iraq
- Thousands of U.S. soldiers have survived powerful explosions in Iraq. Many are returning home with brain injuries that could result in long-term disabilities.
By Emily Singer
Essay
- Where Are They?
- Why the author hopes the search for extraterrestrial life finds nothing.
By Nick Bostrom
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Q&A
- Jennifer Chayes
- The director of the new Massachusetts-based Microsoft Research lab wants to use mathematics to design better search engines, recommendation systems, and online auctions.
By Erica Naone
Reviews
- Riding D-Wave
- A pioneer of quantum computing asks: Has a Canadian startup really demonstrated a commercially viable quantum computer?
By Seth Lloyd
- Recommendation Nation
- Learning to love customers like you.
By Michael Schrage
- The Telecosm, 2008
- The most notorious promoter of the 1990s telecommunications boom has been proved right.
By Mark Williams
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