Technology Review: December/January 2003
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The Web´s New Currency
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A new generation of e-payment companies makes it easy to "pay as you go" for inexpensive Web content, portending big profits for online businesses.
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Letters
- Letters
- Insights and opinions from our readers
Trailing Edge
- Hovercrafter
- It wasn´t always smooth sailing for the inventor of the hovercraft.
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Features
- Big-Picture Biotech
- Systems biology aims to provide a clearer picture of how diseases work-and how to prevent them.
- 7 Hot Projects
- These seven technologies are about to make their way out of the lab, onto the market-and into our lives.
- Our Innovation Backlog
- The flow of innovations is as strong as ever, but the U.S. is slipping in its ability to commercialize them.
- The Corporate R&D Scorecard 2003
- The R&D spending of 300 top technology companies.
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Columns
- Lunch Is on Me
- Can a thermodynamic engineer convince people to drink purified sewage?
- Stop! ID Thief!
- Identity theft is common-but keeping a watchful eye on your credit card accounts is now easy.
- Medicine Goes to the Dogs
- Pampered pets provide loopholes for biomedical entrepreneurs.
Point of Impact
- Race in Medicine
- Sociologist Troy Duster on the role of race in medicine.
Launch Pad
- Online Meeting
- SightSpeed´s technology enables delay-free video Web conferences.
Visualize
- Bomb Scanners
- How current airport bomb detectors operate-plus a look at the next generation of scanning technologies.
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