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...five visionaries on our panel are--in addition to Kurzweil--Paul Horn, IBM senior vice president for research; Sandeep Malhotra, vice president for nanotechnology at Ardesta, an Ann Arbor, Mich., venture-capital firm and industry incubator; Chris Meyer, director of Cap Gemini Ernst & Young's Center for Business Innovation in Cambridge, Mass.; and Melanie Mitchell, a research professor at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico. They offer a glimpse of technologies--most of them already in use--that will reshape the way businesses are run and profits are made in the years ahead...
...that energy, by binding individual cells into what is known as a "stack," could mean efficient, continuous and clean electricity for everything from long-lasting cell-phone batteries to industrial power generators. And although fuel cells have generated buzz at least since astronauts took a prototype into space on Gemini 5 in 1965, it is only in recent years that a technology suitable for commercially viable hydrogen power has emerged: proton-exchange membrane fuel cells...
Tony Eldridge, 40, a senior manager with consultants Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, taught himself to adapt to this changing landscape. "Before, it was all about what you as an individual could achieve and get credit for. Now you have to give up personal ownership--which goes against all my education in business school. But sometimes you have to put down that voice in the back of your head screaming 'Me! Me! Me!' and ask, 'O.K., if I get the recognition, what will be the cost to me?'" The cost is high, Eldridge says, because co-workers get turned...
...People argued at the time that it would be crazy to rely on computers because they might fail," recalls Mountain, whose Gemini telescopes in Hawaii and Chile were built on the European model. "But when you think about it, planes are controlled by onboard computers, and those computers essentially never fail...
Even with these limitations, astronomers at both the Keck and Gemini have taken pictures that are every bit as clear as the Hubble's. Clearer, in fact, because a large telescope's images are inherently sharper than a small one's. Indeed, Ghez's latest and sharpest Keck images of the galactic center have been made with the adaptive optics...