Technology Review: May/June 2009
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Can Technology Save the Economy?
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The U.S. stimulus bill includes tens of billions to support energy and information technologies. It is intended both to create jobs immediately and to set the stage for long-term economic growth. So why are economists and innovation experts so skeptical?
By David Rotman
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From the Editor
- A Manifesto
- Newspapers and magazines won't vanish. But they will change.
By Jason Pontin
Notebooks
- Stimulating Green Energy
- How promoting renewable-energy technologies will help the economy.
By Joseph Romm
- Internet Arms Race
- Whether the Internet will help or hinder the spread of democracy is still uncertain.
By John Palfrey
- Eschew Enhancement
- Memory-boosting drugs should not be made available to the general public.
By Michael K. Ahlijanian
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Features
- Manipulating Memory
- Drugs that alter traumatic recollections offer new hope for treating anxiety disorders. They could also change the way we think about memory.
By Emily Singer
- Dissent Made Safer
- How anonymity technology could save free speech on the Internet.
By David Talbot
Essay
- First Life and Next Life
- Synthetic biology is a new field, but it's targeting an old question: How did life begin?
By David Deamer
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Q&A
- The Silver Lining
- Entrepreneurialism and innovation during a recession.
By Jason Pontin
Photo Essay
 Hunt for Dark Matter- New detectors may finally reveal dark-matter particles.
By Katherine Bourzac
Reviews
- Light, but not Lightweights
- Netbooks are more than just cheap laptops.
By Simson Garfinkel
- A Lifelike Prosthetic Arm
- Thanks to a new surgical procedure, arm amputees can intuitively control a bionic limb for the first time.
By Michael Rosenwald
- Telling
- To a few human experts, our faces--and deepest emotions--are open books. Now computer technology automates those experts' abilities.
By Mark Williams
28 Years Ago in TR
- The Webs We Weave
- Lie detection has never been straightforward.
By Matt Mahoney
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology