10. MITīs Technology Review

Sample Table of Contents: MIT´s TECHNOLOGY REVIEW

20	COVER STORY CREATING THE PEOPLE'S COMPUTER By Michael Dertouzos Like the frustrated TV anchorman in Network, the author is mad as hell and he's not going to take it anymore-in this case, the myriad ways in which the computer is misdesigned and misued. But Dertouzos, the head of MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science, proposes to do something about it. In an article adapted from his new book What Will Be: How the New World of Information Will Change Our Lives, he suggests ways in which designers can fulfill the technology's perennial promise of making humans more creative and productive.
32	WHEN THE SUN DISAPPEARS AND DOLPHINS DO BACK FLIPS By Steve Mirsky The ancients feared total eclipses of the sun, with at least one culture performing mass human sacrifice during such extraordinary events in order to placate the gods. While our understanding of these celestial phenomena has grown, the author rediscovered firsthand the wonder they can still evoke-as well as the scientific curiosity they engender-and urges others to go out of their way to observe the total eclipse occurring early next year.
38	DEFUSING AIRLINE TERRORISM By Mark Fischetti The push is on to install sophisticated new technologies for detecting explosives at airports. But the required speed and accuracy are proving difficult to attain, and these costly systems raise difficult questions about invasion of personal privacy and the dollar value of a human life.
47	AN ARTIST EXPLORES THE LAB By Cornelia Homburg Photographer Catherine Wager has created stark and compellingly beautiful images of the instruments found in major research labs. Herewith a sampling from an upcoming exhibit of her work, which helps bridge the distance between art, science, and everyday life.
54	DIVIDING THE WATERS By Sandra Postel Images of earth from space-of a world abundant with water-are as deceptive as a desert mirage. The actual amount of freshwater available on a sustainable basis to meet human needs is rapidly dwindling as population soars. Because techniques for boosting supply are prohibitively expensive, pursuing a range of water-conserving options has become essential.
	DEPARTMENTS
5	FIRST LINE: THE MEDIUM IS ONLY HALF THE MESSAGE
6	LETTERS
10	MIT REPORTER Hearing What We Want to Hear
14	TRENDS Brave New Bacterial World; Artificial Societies; Hunting the Wild Neutrino
29	FORUM Donald A. Norman The computer and the human brain work differently. Instead of trying to force one to emulate the other, designers would do better to ensure complementarity.
63	THE HUMANE ENGINEER Samuel P. Florman Digitized memorabilia such as home videos and family photograph albums can last forever. But they may well drown our descendants in accumulated megabytes.
64	THE ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE Bennett Harrison From Seattle to Newark, nonprofit community-based organizations are now teaming up with high-tech companies to reinvigorate inner-city economic life.
65	REVIEWS Ellen Spertus on Escape Velocity by Mark Dery. Robert Crawford on Hubble Vision by Caroline C. Peferdon and John C. Brandt.
69	PHENOMENA: WAITING FOR UNCLE BILL
70	TECHNOLOGY REVIEW CAREERS

MIT´s TECHNOLOGY REVIEW

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2. Hoover's Handbooks
3. Standard & Poor's
4. Robert Morris Associates' Annual Statement Studies
5. FASB Accounting Standards
6. The Wall Street Journal
7. Occupational Outlook Handbook
8. Harvard Business Review
9. Who's Who in America
10. MIT's Technology Review
11. Small Business Sourcebook
12. Peterson's Guide to Four-Year Colleges
13. American Heritage
14. The Worldly Philosophers

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