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April 1997
Creating The People´s Computer
One of the nation´s foremost computer scientists, exasperated by the unfriendliness of today´s computer systems, suggests what designers can do to make machines serve human needs—rather than the other way around.
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Sustainable Energy

When the Sun Disappears and Dolphins Do Back Flips

During total eclipses of the sun, at least one ancient culture performed mass human sacrifice to placate the gods. While our understanding of these celestial phenomena has grown, the author rediscovers the scientific curiosity they engender.
Rewriting Life
Defusing Airline Terrorism
Intelligent Machines
Dividing the Water
Business Impact
An Artist Explores the Lab

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Hearing What We Want to Hear

An inside look at research at MIT.

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Artifical Societies

Sustainable Energy

Hunting the Wild Nutrinos

Intelligent Machines

Melding Mind and Machine

The computer and the human brainwork differently. Instead of trying to force one to emulate the other, designers would do better to ensure complementarity.

Waiting for Uncle Bill

From Here to Eternity

Digitized memorabilia such as home videos and family photograph albums can last forever. But they may well drown our descendents in accumulated megabytes

Rewriting Life

Bringing High Tech to Low-Income People

From Seattle to Newark, nonprofit community-based organizations are now teaming up with high-tech companies to reinvigorate inner-city economic life.

Review

Lost in Cyberspace

Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century

Business Impact

The Value of Hubble

Hubble Vision: Astronomy with the Hubble Telescope

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