Technology Review: November/December 2006
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Philanthropy's New Prototype
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Can Nicholas Negroponte, the Andrew Carnegie of the information age, get governments to buy cheap laptops?
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Features
- The Glimmering Promise of Gene Therapy
- Despite past failures, gene therapy still holds the promise of cures for some of the most horrendous human diseases.
- Silicon and Sun
- Daniel Morse has found an unusual inspiration for cheaper, more efficient solar cells: sea sponges.
Essay
- A Failure of Intelligence
- A personal account of operational research at the British Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1943-1945.
Photo Essay
- Hungry Monkeys
- Monkeys on an extremely low-calorie diet are healthier--and hungrier.
Demo
- Finding Hidden Tumors
- Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital are using whole-body MRI to illuminate a tricky disease.
Q&A
- Danny Hillis
- Why is creating thinking machines so difficult?
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