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Arthur C. Clarke Colombo, Sri Lanka...
...investment advisers still believe that genetic engineering has a good long-range potential. The first new products, including human insulin and a vaccine for newborn calves and pigs, are expected to appear on the market soon. Big profits, however, are still years away. A study released this month by SRI International, a California think tank, found that miracle drugs like interferon, which may be used to treat cancer, will not be available in commercial quantities until 1990. Development of agricultural products that could be used to increase food production may take even longer. Thus the investment payoff from such wonder...
...success selling encryption devices to companies. Some of Datotek's best customers are oil firms, which fear that competitors will steal the results of oilfield tests that reveal promising drilling sites. Computer-security specialists predict that the demand for electronic scramblers will soon explode. Says Donn Parker of SRI International, a California research firm: "Encryption is the control of the future. During the '80s it will become very important...
...around computers, astute crooks are just as busy finding ways to break them down. Research into computer security, now going on at numerous companies and universities, has become almost as supersecret as nuclear-weapons development or germ-warfare studies. Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley and at SRI International are studying a frightening flaw in the programming of many computer systems that could allow criminals who find it to get around standard security measures. For obvious reasons, the investigators refuse to disclose the nature of this chink in a computer's armor until companies have...
...free-flowing nature of the sessions does have certain drawbacks. Corporate clients have sometimes been reluctant to adopt the group's recommendations, complaining that the topics themselves are often banal or irrelevant. Even so, SRI can point to some impressive successes. SRI's brainstorming technique zeroed in early on the nationwide trend toward home health care and quickly held seminars on the subject. In addition, TEAM sessions in the spring of 1980 focused on the rightward political lurch in the U.S. and the growth of religious fundamentalism...