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...patients. A short time later, four research teams zeroed in on the gene that encodes the recipe for making the protein. To their great surprise, they discovered that beta amyloid was a fragment of a much larger protein, which came to be known as the amyloid-precursor protein, or APP for short...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Science of Alzheimer's | 7/17/2000 | See Source »

...institution, should remember that not all entrepreneurs become captains of industry. Entrepreneurship and non-profit ventures also deserve strong encouragement, and any promotion of entrepreneurship should take non-profit efforts into account. The experience of operating a non-profit can be just as valid as finding the next "killer app"; the College must ensure that the hope of future donations from Internet billionaires does not push its preferences away from the public good...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Technology and Education | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

...what's the killer app for tele-immersion? "It's not so much a matter of particular applications," says Lanier. "It will just become part of life. It will be used by teenage girls to gossip, by business people to cut deals, by doctors to consult." And presumably by people who want to do long-distance lunch. Of course, there won't be any point in saying "Pass the squash," but otherwise it will be a normal mealtime conversation. Eating online...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will We Ever Log Off? | 2/21/2000 | See Source »

...pace that is dizzying for us, perhaps turtle footed for you. This year the automobile industry produced a vehicle powered by liquid hydrogen; Detroit plans to have fuel-cell cars on the roads in 2004. (I assume yours run on carrots.) The computer industry comes up with a "killer app" every 18 months. With silicon chips reaching their limit, the industry announces "molecular computing"--shrinking computer circuits to the size of molecules. Soon we will have flexible transistors and bendable screens, easy to fold, like a newspaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter To The Year 2100 | 1/1/2000 | See Source »

...capital and a snazzy Trump Place apartment and office suite on Manhattan's West Side. They also have Gooey, an innovative Web application that allows visitors to any website to chat with other Gooey users at the same site. Zilberman and Blachman will tell you it's a killer app, one that will turn the whole Internet into a billion-voice AOL chat room. So how much is Hypernix, their company, charging for this product...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Web: Giving Away The E-Store | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

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