IT鈥橲 the single most powerful driving force for change. In the space of a
century we鈥檝e seen the rise of Orville and Wilbur鈥檚 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 New 杏吧原创鈥檚 stock-in-trade. And
starting this week, there鈥檚 something extra. On p 20 you鈥檒l find Frontiers, a
section that will bring you the hot new ideas as they emerge from labs around
the globe.
Week on week, Frontiers aims to be first to carry news about these ideas,
their potential and the science that drives them. Some will turn out to be
disruptive technologies that obliterate existing products and change our lives
at a stroke. Others will be chosen for their simplicity and power鈥攚hat
David Gelernter of Yale calls 鈥渕achine beauty鈥濃�攐r simply because they are
just too ingenious to ignore.
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Frontiers will expose trends and reveal the directions technology is taking.
Read it every week for a glimpse of the future.