Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 20:36:22 -0500 From: Steven Cherry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Spectrum magazine - 2004 Technology Forecast & Review X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "David J. Farber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Dave, our January issue special report: "2004 Technology Forecast & Review: Win, Lose, or Grail" is available this month in its entirety. Happy holidays!
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COMMUNICATIONS Winner: Across The Great Divide By Steven M. Cherry Loser: Flying Away By Erico Guizzo Holy Grail: Fiber to the Home By Steven M. Cherry
ELECTRIC POWER Winner: The Smart Hybrid By Glenn Zorpette Loser: Recycling a Bad Idea By Jean Kumagai Holy Grail: Self-Sustaining Fusion By William Sweet
SEMICONDUCTORS Winner: The Great Gallium Nitride Gamble By Linda Geppert Loser: A Promising Lithography Gets Stuck By Linda Geppert Holy Grail: Light from Silicon By Neil Savage
TRANSPORTATION Winner: Superconductors On The High Seas By Elizabeth A. Bretz Loser: General Motors On The Hy-wire By Tekla S. Perry Holy Grail: Hypersonic Flight By Erico Guizzo
COMPUTERS Winner: A Fountain Of Knowledge By Stephen Cass Loser: A Dog Named SPOT By Harry Goldstein Holy Grail: An Infinite, And Everlasting, Archive By Harry Goldstein
BIOENGINEERING Winner: This Is Your Brain Online By Philip E. Ross Loser: Carbon-Crunching Critters By Philip E. Ross Holy Grail: Customized Medicine By Philip E. Ross
TECH TRENDS 2004 Surveying Technology Leaders By Ashton Applewhite & Jean Kumagai
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Steven Cherry
Senior Associate Editor, IEEE Spectrum
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Newsstands are awash in business magazines explaining that
optical technology makes possible communication at the speed
of light - as if the microwave radio circuits of yesteryear
propagated their signals at some lesser velocity.
-- Michael J. Riezenman, IEEE Spectrum, January 2001
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