Big step
toward molecular electronics
A Hewlett-Packard research team has created the first molecular-electronic
memory chip, which
achieved a storage density 10 times that of conventional silicon
electronics. The chip's memory was non-volatile and was combined
with logic elements, both advantages over silicon-based random
access memories–Eric J. Lerner
Building
the nanofuture with carbon tubes
Following the attacks in Carbon nanotubes have hundreds of properties
and each property is a business. Some producers of nanostructured
carbon materials are gearing up to produce multiton quantities.
But nanotubes may also be the most expensive material in the world,
so progress depends on cheap mass production–Jennifer Ouellette
Buying
patterns in e-commerce
E-commerce brings us closer to the idea of a perfect market. But
cultural, linguistic, and political differences in the U.S., Europe,
and Asia mean that people's responses to e-commerce vary widely–Zita
Zoltay Paprika
Will innovation
flourish in the future?
In modern industrial nations, quantum mechanics contributed to
the Internet, computers, lasers, atomic clocks, the Global Positioning
System, and superconductors. But who is going to do the basic
research that will form the basis for the next technology revolutions?–Jerome
I. Friedman
