| Profiling
the latest technology (and it's practical implications) |
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| How
nanotechnology will change the world (a Cnet Special Report) |
| This
very basic, Special Report by Cnet talks about the possibilities of nanotechnology,
the possible misuse and the factors that are limiting the development of
nanotechnology today. |
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| Fast
Forward |
| Darwin
magazine asked a group of business and technology visionaries what according
to them would be the needs from technology in the coming year compared to
what technology would be most likely to deliver. |
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| There
is Plenty of Room at the Bottom |
| Transcript
of the speech delivered by Reichard Feynman on December 29th 1959 at the
annual meeting of the American
Physical Society at the California
Institute of Technology. In it he introduces his views on nanotechnology
to the audience. |
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| E-commerce
and Development Report 2001 (PDF) |
| This
report by UNCTAD reviews
trends that developing countries need to be aware of as they try to position
their economies to take advantage of ICT and the Internet. It provides basic
facts and figures about electronic commerce and discusses the impact on
sectors of particular relevance to developing countries. It also suggests,
with concrete examples, ways in which developing countries can create the
necessary enabling environment for e-commerce. |
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report is available for download only for a short time. |
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| New
Media, New Value |
| The
music industry is on the cusp of a revolution - a revolution enabled by
ever changing technology. New media channels are making a dramatic impact
on traditional music distribution and retailing. Three simultaneous and
accelerating developments are already transforming the way in which consumers
buy music, listen to it and store it. They are challenging, even rupturing,
the traditional relationships between the music industry and its consumers. |
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| Happy
Machines—Making video files smaller is a tall order |
| Another
eighteen-year-old is trying to revolutionize an industry. The wunderkind
Jan Devos, president of Belgian company Happy Machines, has developed a
new way to compress and download media files in MPEG-4 format. |
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| Final
Report of the Digital Opportunity Task Force (PDF format) |
| This
report is the result of a unique international collaboration. The Digital
Opportunity Task Force (DOT Force), created by the G8 Heads of State at
their Kyushu-Okinawa Summit in July 2000, brought together forty three teams
from government, the private sector, non-profit organizations, and international
organizations, representing both developed and developing countries, in
a cooperative effort to identify ways in which the digital revolution can
benefit all the world's people, especially the poorest and most marginalized
groups. The "digital divide" is threatening to exacerbate the existing social
and economic inequalities between countries and communities, so the potential
costs of inaction are greater than ever before. |
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| Spanning
the Digital Divide: Understanding and Tackling the Issues |
| A
report on what is known, what is being done, and what is needed to tackle
digital divides around the world. |
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| Creating
a Development Dynamic: Final Report of the Digital Opportunity Initiative |
| The
report lays out a strategic framework for action that developing countries
and their partners can deploy in order to enable the former to reap the
benefits of the networked economy and an information society. |
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| War
of the Handhelds |
| 2001
is touted as the year in which palmtop computing takes off in earnest and
as with any technology on the verge of a mass market breakthrough, there
are important battles to be fought among hardware and software producers
which will determine the pace and direction of this development. The article
takes a look at the players, the imminent battles and offers a view about
the future of this emerging computing sector. |
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