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...shocked that the secret's out. We're a pretty perceptive bunch around here, and we're onto you. Why else would you agree to be Captain Copyright, safeguarding fair Harvard's blessed name from evil infringement perpetrators everywhere? Why let yourself be saddled with that info-tech sinkhole Project ADAPT? Why squeeze into a frilly ballgown alongside Jeremy Knowles, prancing around at a Radcliffe gala? (True story. The Crimson has pictures.) Admit it. You're gunning for the corner office...
FANTASTIC VOYAGE Looking inside the intestine to diagnose, say, colon cancer isn't easy. But now, as if in a sci-fi flick, doctors have developed a tiny camera in a capsule that patients swallow and send on a painless info-gathering voyage through the gut. As contractions move it along, the mini-endoscope transmits detailed color images to a belt worn by the patient; then they're downloaded to a computer. Downside? Doctors can't maneuver the capsule to get a closer look. And FDA approval isn't expected for years...
Localization is the ability of a hand-held wireless to give you info geared specifically to where you happen to be. Some handhelds can do it now--by GPS or other technologies--but many more will be able to do it soon. Prompted by emergency-response concerns, the FCC is requiring all cellular carriers by late next year to be able to locate all their subscribers within...
...more info about Sony's new machine, go to www.playstation.com To pick a fight with Chris, e-mail him at cdt@well.com
...heading into the second, or growth, quarter, when hot new industries appear, much as semiconductors and software did in the second quarter of the info economy. Thus biotech will pave the way for the bioec era. During the next two decades, organic biotech will overlap with inorganic silicon infotech and inorganic composite materials and nanotechnologies...