September/October, 1999

Michael Dertouzos
The People's Computer
Privacy is Not Doomed
No doubt, the technologies of information can be used to attack our privacy. But they can also be used to protect it.
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Prototype
Innovations from every area of technology
Magic Marker
Meeting hell: Someone - most likely your boss - is scribbling ideas, dates and numbers onto a whiteboard faster than you could ever copy them onto your notepad.Now comes a gadget that captures the markings made on any ordinary whiteboard in real time and stores them on a PC.
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Benchmarks Reports from the world of innovation Software: No-sweat inventing Restorations: Virtual archeology Internet: Taking back the Web? Space: A thoughful spacecraft Publishing: Open source licensing

Cover story
Computing After Silicon
How will computers be built after 2015? Read about some exciting predictions in the September/October edition of Technology Review.
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