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Postcards from the cutting edge

10 February 2001

IT’S the single most powerful driving force for change. In the space of a
century we’ve seen the rise of Orville and Wilbur’s engine with wings, the atom
bomb, space travel, the Internet and now robots that sequence DNA at lightning
speed. When it comes to changing our lives and world, nothing comes close to
technology.

How technologies work, the dilemmas they present to society and what happens
when they go wrong are already Âé¶¹´«Ã½’s stock-in-trade. And
starting this week, there’s something extra. On p 20 you’ll find Frontiers, a
section that will bring you the hot new ideas…

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