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Spectrum magazine - 2004 Technology Forecast & Review
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 23:01:03 -0500
Delivered-To: dfarber+ () ux13 sp cs cmu edu Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 20:36:22 -0500 From: Steven Cherry <s.cherry () ieee org> Subject: Spectrum magazine - 2004 Technology Forecast & Review X-Sender: steven () pop panix com To: "David J. Farber" <dave () farber net>Dave, our January issue special report: "2004 Technology Forecast & Review: Win, Lose, or Grail" is available this month in its entirety. Happy holidays!
<http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/> COMMUNICATIONS Winner: Across The Great Divide By Steven M. Cherry Loser: Flying Away By Erico Guizzo Holy Grail: Fiber to the Home By Steven M. Cherry ELECTRIC POWER Winner: The Smart Hybrid By Glenn Zorpette Loser: Recycling a Bad Idea By Jean Kumagai Holy Grail: Self-Sustaining Fusion By William Sweet SEMICONDUCTORS Winner: The Great Gallium Nitride Gamble By Linda Geppert Loser: A Promising Lithography Gets Stuck By Linda Geppert Holy Grail: Light from Silicon By Neil Savage TRANSPORTATION Winner: Superconductors On The High Seas By Elizabeth A. Bretz Loser: General Motors On The Hy-wire By Tekla S. Perry Holy Grail: Hypersonic Flight By Erico Guizzo COMPUTERS Winner: A Fountain Of Knowledge By Stephen Cass Loser: A Dog Named SPOT By Harry Goldstein Holy Grail: An Infinite, And Everlasting, Archive By Harry Goldstein BIOENGINEERING Winner: This Is Your Brain Online By Philip E. Ross Loser: Carbon-Crunching Critters By Philip E. Ross Holy Grail: Customized Medicine By Philip E. Ross TECH TRENDS 2004 Surveying Technology Leaders By Ashton Applewhite & Jean Kumagai -- Steven Cherry Senior Associate Editor, IEEE Spectrum -- <s.cherry () ieee org> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Newsstands are awash in business magazines explaining that optical technology makes possible communication at the speed of light - as if the microwave radio circuits of yesteryear propagated their signals at some lesser velocity. -- Michael J. Riezenman, IEEE Spectrum, January 2001 ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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