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There are virtually no unknowns in the procedure. The Pentagon knows the type of rocket launching the target as well as the nature of the target; it knows how powerful the rocket's engine is, where it is coming from and when it is being launched. The crew launching the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Missile Impossible? | 7/10/2000 | See Source »

Another set of indicators from the Commerce Department suggests the economy, as usual, is doing just what Alan Greenspan wants it to. According to figures released Friday, personal spending, the engine of the boom, rose just 0.2 percent in May - the same level as the revised April numbers. Personal income...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy? Er, Tune in After the Fireworks | 6/30/2000 | See Source »

Or, more precisely, he's still trying to make it happen. Clark has a day job, working for a company that consults for online auctions. (He makes no money from Freenet, and since he doesn't claim to own it, he can't sell it.) He spends much of his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Infoanarchist | 6/26/2000 | See Source »

The economic destiny and prosperity of entire nations may rest on one question: Can silicon-based computer technology sustain Moore's law beyond 2020? Moore's law (see sidebar) is the engine pulling a trillion-dollar industry. It's the reason kids assume that it's their birthright to get...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Will Replace Silicon? | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

From the viewpoint of bioengineering, a silicon chip is a large and rather complex shard of glass. Inserting a silicon chip into the human brain involves a certain irreducible inelegance of scale. It's scarcely more elegant, relatively, than inserting a steam engine into the same tissue. It may be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will We Plug Chips Into Our Brains? | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

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