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October 1997
Beam It Down
The sky will soon fill with low-orbiting satellites providing communications links to every point on earth. We should press these fleets into double duty as solar energy collectors that relay uninterrupted beams of nonpolluting electrical power to earth.
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Intelligent Machines

A Study in Complexity

A pioneer inn the field of complexity theory and creator of the software program Mathematica, Steven Wolfram now claims his secret, after-hours computer experiments will reinvent the field of physics. His colleagues think he just might pull it off.
Intelligent Machines
New Hope in the Minefields
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Recycling is Not Garbage

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Rewriting Life

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Sustainable Energy

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Harnessing Brownian Motion

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Campaigns, Commercials, and Computers

Television has helped turn politics into a money game. The path toward righteousness may lie through another technology.

Intelligent Machines

Life in the Fast-Growth Lane

With the productivity benefits of information technology finally starting to kick in, we can afford to pursue rapid economic growth.

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