Wired 2003 - Abstracts

Wired 2003
TitleSubjectAuthors
2,193 mph.(Fastest Men in the Air: Al Joerz and George Morgan )(Speed Demons: The Fastest Humans and Machines Anywhere, From Sprinters to Supercomputers)(Cover Story)Sociology and social workJoseph Portera
28,547 mph.(Fastest Men Anywhere: Tom Stafford, John Young, and Gene Cernan)(Speed Demons: The Fastest Humans and Machines Anywhere, From Sprinters to Supercomputers)(Cover Story)Sociology and social workMark Robinson
38,518 mph.(Fastest Man-Made Object: Voyager 1 )(Speed Demons: The Fastest Humans and Machines Anywhere, From Sprinters to Supercomputers)(Cover Story)Sociology and social workAlix Berger
8-bit punk.(a new underground sound called "chip music" )Sociology and social workMalcolm McClaren
Almost paradise .(Sex Space: When the Exotic Imitates the Everyday, What's Left to Fantasize About? )(The New World: 30 Spaces for the 21st Century )(Cover Story)Sociology and social workKyoichi Tsuzuki
Always a dull moment: the hottest game in the sky is simulating a holding pattern. .(the Virtual Air Traffic Simulation Network, or Vatsim )Sociology and social workJohn Galvin
America's most toxic: the biohazards under federal lockdown -- and why they're a threat.Sociology and social workRebecca Harper
A microbe enters the Matrix; how model bacteria will transform biology.Sociology and social workFred Hapgood
A piece of the action: Larry DeMar is making millions in Vegas. Here's his secret: 55-year-old women want the same thing as 17-year-old boys.(Larry DeMar's company, Leading Edge Design, creates patented gaming machines for casinos)Sociology and social workMichael Kaplan
A user's guide to time travel: all it takes is a grasp of theoretical physics, control of the space-time continuum, and maybe a ball of cosmic string .(includes related articles titled "Thorne Plates," "Gott Loop," "Gott Shell," "Van Stokum Cylinder," and "Kerr Ring" )(Wired: The Super Power Issue )(Cover Story)Sociology and social workMichio Kaku
Avalanche.(snow science)(Natural Disasters)Sociology and social workMarc Spiegler
Being invisible: next-gen optical camouflage is busting out of defense labs and into the street. This is technology you have to see to believe .(Wired: The Super Power Issue)(Cover Story)Sociology and social workWil McCarthy
Being Michel Gondry: the best director you've never heard of is going big-time .(Play: Screen)Sociology and social workLisa Delgado
Best-laid plan.(the Chandigarh Capitol Complex in northern India)(Public Space: Somewhere Between Success and Failure)(The New World: 30 Spaces for the 21st Century)(Cover Story)Sociology and social workDominique Gonzalez-Forester
Beyond the wall: infrared surveillance cams. Seismic field sensors. Real-time data maps. Welcome to the new US Border Patrol .(the border that separates the U.S. and Mexico )Sociology and social workMichael Mechanic
Breathtaking views.(three DLP televisions)(digital light processing )(high-definintion television, or HDTV )(Hardware Review)(Product/Service Evaluation)Sociology and social workPeter Suciu
Building the nuke wall: radiation detectors are already in place all over America. No one will say where.Sociology and social workCharles Graeber
Change of heart .(Thomas Starzl Pioneered the Use of Toxic Drugs to Keep Transplant Patients Alive .... )Sociology and social workAlicia Ault
Cloudy, with a chance of theft: now we can forecast criminal activity just like the weather. No precogs needed.(View: Opinion-Ideas-Provocations)(Column)Sociology and social workWilpen Gorr
CodeFellas.(Bet-processing system hacking)Sociology and social workSimson Garfinkel
Combine and conquer.(Euro Space: A State of Mind)(The New World: 30 Spaces for the 21st Century)(Cover Story)Sociology and social workMark Leonard
Confessions of a baggage screener: I used the CTX 5500 to keep bombs off your plane. I also got elbows-deep in your underwear.(Airport Security )Sociology and social workBeth Pinsker
Copy protection is a crime ... against humanity. Society is based on bending the rules.(View: Opinion-Ideas-Provocations)(Column)Sociology and social workDavid Weinberger
Darpa's gambling man.(United States. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; Robin Hanson)Sociology and social workSpencer Reiss
Death by GPS.(use of the Global Positioning System for purposes of conservation in the Galapagos Islands )Sociology and social workMatthew Yeomans
DNA superstars: the 15 hottest genomes -- and why they matter .Sociology and social workKen Howard
Don't worry about deflation: demand for computer products is up. We should be celebrating .(On the Wired Economy: DeLong)(Industry Overview)(Column)Sociology and social workBradford J. DeLong
Do-or-die at Yucca Mountain; the regulatory tug-of-war over Nevada's nuclear waste dump has dragged on for decades. Meanwhile, temporary sites across the country are overflowing with nuclear fuel rods -- making them perfect targets for terror.(includes related article titled "4 Deadly Scenarios" )Sociology and social workDavid Ewing Duncan
Driver's little helper.(Navigation Systems: Alpine PowerNav; Garmin Street Pilot III; and Magellan 750M)(Hardware Review)(Product/Service Evaluation)Sociology and social workMarty Katz
Duck! It's a low-flying gigaplane.(the Pelican Ultra Large Transport Aircraft)(Start: Aerospace)Sociology and social workTom Mcnichol
Exploring Myst's brave new world.(Rand Miller's new game, Uru: Ages Beyond Myst)Sociology and social workSuzanne Ashe
Extreme makeover .('casemodding,' or custom altering a personal computer's exterior )Sociology and social workCory Doctorow
Farewell to film.(DSLR Cameras)(three digital single-lens reflex cameras)(Hardware Review)(Product/Service Evaluation)Sociology and social workMarty Katz
Fiber to the people.Sociology and social workLawrence Lessig
Future fetish .(a technology wish list for 2013)(Life in 2013: A Special WIRED Report)(Cover Story)Sociology and social workSonia Zjawinski
Futurism is dead.Sociology and social workHope Cristol
Go deep! The US needs a NASA for exploring the oceans .(View: Opinion-Ideas-Provocations)Sociology and social workGraham S. Hawkes
Going wide.(flat-panel plasma TVs: Sharp's PZ-43HV2U; Hitachi's 42HDT20; and Gateway's 42-inch Plasma TV)(Hardware Review)(Product/Service Evaluation)Sociology and social workPeter Suciu
Go, skid racer, go!(the car-racing technique known as "drifting" )Sociology and social workCharles Graeber
Hacking the Matrix.(Shiny Entertainment's Enter the Matrix video game)Sociology and social workJohn Gaudiosi
Hating Hilary.(Hilary Rosen, chair of the Recording Industry Association of America)(includes related articles titled "Under Cover: Meet the Stealth Firms Doing the Industry's Covert Ops," and "Dirty Dozen: 12 Ways the Record Labels Fight Back")(Interview)(Cover Story)Sociology and social workMatt Bal
High-score education: games, not school, are teaching kids to think.(videogames)(View: Opinions-Ideas-Provocations)(Column)Sociology and social workJames Paul Gee
Hitting the sweet spot: it's got full flavor at one-third the calories. It's safe for teeth and diabetics. And its all natural. The long, strange search for the ultimate sugar substitute.(tagatose)Sociology and social workEvan Ratliff
Hope is a lousy defense.(Interview)Sociology and social workSpencer Reiss
Household germ warfare: antibacterial and antibiotic agents are everywhere. Now the bugs are fighting back.Sociology and social workJennifer Weaver
How antispam software works.(includes related article titled "Words to Avoid")(Start: Cheat Sheet)Sociology and social workSeth Kaplan
How brown gets around .(UPS)Sociology and social workJesse Freund
how hydrogen can save America.(Life in 2013: A Special WIRED Report)(Industry Overview)(Cover Story)Sociology and social workPeter Schwartz, Doug Randall
How to keep your number forever.Sociology and social workDaniel McGinn
Inside out.(Body Space: Fashion Continues to Outline the Female Body)(The New World: 30 Spaces for the 21st Century)(Cover Story)Sociology and social workMiuccia Prada
Inside the soul of the Web: 24 hours watching the world look for answers at Google.(Search Engines)Sociology and social workMichael S. Malone
In the driver's seat.(computer games: Empire Interactive's Big Mutha Truckers and Sega's King of Route 66)(Product/Service Evaluation)Sociology and social workSuzanne Ashe
It's not easy being green.(Ang Lee's new movie, The Hulk)(Interview)Sociology and social workJennifer Hillner
I want my TIA; Total Information Awareness will consign Google to the Stone Age.(View: Opinion-Ideas-Provocations)Sociology and social workHoward Bloom
Join the club .(golf courses)(Golf Space: The New Town Square Has 18 Holes )(The New World: 30 Spaces for the 21st Century)(Cover Story)Sociology and social workR.E. Somol
Keeping a lid on Pyongyang; the best military strategy for the Korean Peninsula: tech supremacy.(Start: Technology-Business-People)Sociology and social workBruce Berkowitz
Leader of the free world: how Linus Torvalds became benevolent dictator of Planet Linux, the biggest collaborative project in history.(the Linux operating system)(includes related article titled "The Rise of Linux")(Interview)(Cover Story)Sociology and social workGary Rivlin
Learning to love PowerPoint .(Microsoft's PowerPoint presentation software )Sociology and social workDavid Byrne
Live free or die.(breaking out of gallery space)(Art Space: Building Bastions of Creative Freedom )(The New World: 30 Spaces for the 21st Century )(Cover Story)Sociology and social workHans Ulrich Obrist
Making babies: in vitro fertilization is booming, even at $20,000 a shot -- but a third of those who deliver get two kids for the price of one. .Sociology and social workPatrick Di Justo
Martha Stewart is editing your life (that includes you, Bill Gates).(Home Space: Your Home, the New Public Plaza)(The New World: 30 Spaces for the 21st Century )(Interview)(Cover Story)Sociology and social workRem Koolhaas, Beatriz Colomina
Matrix revelations: the Wachowski brothers FAQ.(Joel Silver, producer of the Matrix trilogy )(Interview)Sociology and social workMark Miller
Maximum overdrive.(overclocking to increase a PC's processing speed)(Cover Story)Sociology and social workCory Doctorow
Memory overload: as hard drives get bigger and cheaper, we're storing way too much.(View: Opinions-Ideas-Provocations)(Column)Sociology and social workJim Lewis
Microcosmos.(Nano Space)(The New World: 30 Spaces for the 21st Century)(Cover Story)Sociology and social workLarry Smarr
Migrant labor.(flexibility is the mantra of corporate offices)(Office Space: Where Do You Want to Work Today?)(The New World: 30 Spaces for the 21st Century)(Cover Story)Sociology and social workJacqueline Hassink
Mind share .(weblogs)(Blog Space: Public Storage for Wisdom, Ignorance, and Everything in Between )(The New World: 30 Spaces for the 21st Century)(Cover Story)Sociology and social workSteven Johnson
Mission to Mars, Utah.(simulated expeditions to Mars)(William J. Clancey )(Space Space: Isolation as Lifestyle )(The New World: 30 Spaces for the 21st Century)(Interview)(Cover Story)Sociology and social workRem Koolhaas, Hans Ulrich Obrist
MIT everywhere: every lecture, every handout, every quiz. All online for free. Meet the global geeks getting an MIT education, open source-style.Sociology and social workDavid Diamond
Muscle cards.(ATI's Radeon 9800 Pro; Nvidia's GeForce FX 5200; and Matrox's Parhelia)(3-D Graphics Accelerators)(Hardware Review)(Product/Service Evaluation)Sociology and social workDarren Gladstone
Neal Stephenson rewrites history: for the dark prince of hacker fiction, looking backward is another way of seeing the future.(Interview)Sociology and social workRobert Levine
Needle in a hard drive.(personal knowledge management, or PKM, software)(dtSearch's dtSearch Desktop 6.11, Enfish's Enfish 6.0 Standard, and Creo's Six Degrees 1.51)(Software Review)(Product/Service Evaluation)Sociology and social workBrian Lam
New frontiers .(Atlas Space: The Geography of Change)(The New World: 30 Spaces for the 21st Century)(Cover Story)Sociology and social workMarkus Schaefer, Reinier de Graaf, Theo Deutinger, Nanne de Ru
Now hear this .(acousmatic spaces)(Voice Space: When Spaces Start Speaking, We Listen)(The New World: 30 Spaces for the 21st Century )(Cover Story)Sociology and social workPaul Elliman
Open source is everywhere: software is just the beginning ...(... Open Source is Doing for Mass Innovation What the Assembly Line Did for Mass Production. Get Ready for the Era When Collaboration Replaces the Corporation.)(Cover Story)Sociology and social workThomas Goetz
... or die trying.(the Water Speed Record Hasn't Been Broken in 25 Years -- In Fact, It's Taken the Life of Just About Everyone Who's Tried .... )(includes related article titled "Fast, Faster, Fastest: Key Milestones in the Race for the Record Books" )(Cover Story)Sociology and social workCarl Hoffman
Pocket jukeboxes.(20-Gig MP3 Players: Apple iPod 20GB; Creative Labs Nomad Jukebox Zen; and SONICblue RioRiot)(Hardware Review)(Product/Service Evaluation)Sociology and social workJoseph Portera
Prepare to meet thy Doom.(Doom III)Sociology and social workDavid Kushner
Quiet riot.(Protest Space: When Speech is Zoned, is it Free? )(The New World: 30 Spaces for the 21st Century )(Cover Story)Sociology and social workSarah Whiting
Religion be damned .(the newly coined term 'bright' refersto people who profess no religion )(Column)Sociology and social workRichard Dawkins
Roam free.(spatial cognition )(Robo Space: How Space Perception Separates Man from Machine )(The New World: 30 Spaces for the 21st Century)(Cover Story)Sociology and social workLuc Steels
Robots at your service: machines are finding work beyond the factory floor -- they're pumping gas, mowing lawns, and fighting fires.(Industry Overview)Sociology and social workNeil McManus
Say it with pictures.(reviews of three camera phones: Nokia's 3650, Sony Ericsson's T300 and Motorola's T720i)(Hardware Review)(Product/Service Evaluation)Sociology and social workSeth Kaplan
Segway's breakdown: inventor Dean Kamen promised that his superscooter would change the world. Then reality hit -- hard.(Segway LLC's Human Transporter)Sociology and social workGary Rivlin
Six degrees of interconnection .(network space )(Relationship Space: Meet Your Network Neighbors)(The New World: 30 Spaces for the 21st Century)(Cover Story)Sociology and social workDuncan Watts
Something completely different: the BBC is putting its vast archives online for free. Call it the next media model.Sociology and social workDanny O'Brien
Spectrum wants to be free: drop the outmoded idea of ownership, and a whole new wireless frontier emerges.Sociology and social workKevin Werbach
Stamping out short people: growth hormone is just the start of human enhancement.(View: Opinions - Ideas - Provocations)Sociology and social workGregory Stock
Sub-urban renewal: thanks to new tunneling technologies, real estate trends are down. Way down.(includes related article titled "10 Years of Mega-engineering")(Life in 2013: A Special WIRED Report)(Cover Story)Sociology and social workFred Hapgood
Superproducers: they're reinventing the sound of music. And the music industry.(Cover Story)Sociology and social work 
Superwater showdown.("enhanced water": beverages with various supplements and nutrients)(Marketing )Sociology and social workJonathon Keats
Take your medicine: needles? Nah. Try an implant instead.(Start: Drug Delivery )(Industry Overview)Sociology and social workSteven Kotler
Tastes great, less filling: will advertisers learn the hard lesson of over-development? .(ad space )(The New World: 30 Spaces for the 21st Century)(Cover Story)Sociology and social workSteve Hayden
Tent city .(humanitarian spaces)(Limbo Space: Neutral Ground is Hard to Hold )(The New World: 30 Spaces for the 21st Century)(Cover Story)Sociology and social workThomas Keenan
The 79th richest nation on earth doesn't exist.(Ultima Online, the networked role-playing game)Sociology and social workJulian Dibbell
The antigravity underground: the fantastic floating device called a lifter has no moving parts, no onboard fuel, and no shortage of wide-eyed admirers. Even inside NASA.(includes related article titled "How To Build Your Own Lifter")(Wired: The Super Power Issue)(Cover Story)Sociology and social workClive Thompson
The architecture zoo.(Southampton, New York: developer Coco Brown is creating a modernist art gallery disguised as a subdivision)(Designer Homes)Sociology and social workT. Trent Gegax
The battle for blue.(the colors of major corporations' logos )(Color Space: The Coolest Shades in Corporate America )(The New World: 30 Spaces for the 21st Century)(Cover Story)Sociology and social workMichael Rock
The CD's sad song: the forces behind falling music sales.Sociology and social workRebecca Harper
The DVD wars, blow by blow.(the Motion Picture Association of America's DVD region system )Sociology and social workChris Baker, Brian Lam
The end of cancer (as we know it): Diagnosis. Chemotherapy. Radiation. Slow painful death. No more. A new era of cancer treatment is dawning. Meet three scientists who are using the revelations of the Human Genome Project to reshape medicine.(Todd Golub, Brian Druker and Sudhir Srivastava)(includes related article titled "5 New Tools for Fighting Cancer")Sociology and social workJennifer Hahn
The enemy within .(Internet security )(Secure Space: Walls Don't Work in Cyberspace )(The New World: 30 Spaces for the 21st Century)(Cover Story)Sociology and social workBruce Schneier
The geography of the genome .(genetic information )(DNA Space: Welcome to the Biotechonomy )(The New World: 30 Spaces for the 21st Century)(Cover Story)Sociology and social workJuan Enriquez, Jonathan West, Rodrigo Martinez
The godfather.(Shigeru Miyamoto, pioneering inventor of the modern videogame)(includes related article titled "Miyamoto Milestones" )Sociology and social workZev Borow
The golden age of gadgets.Sociology and social workSonia Zjawinski
The great library of Amazonia.Sociology and social workGary Wolf
The green wall of China: desert storms from Central Asia are leaving a trail of global destruction. Now Beijing is drawing a line in the sand.(includes related article titled "10 Years of Environmental Engineering")(Life in 2013: A Special WIRED Report)(Cover Story)Sociology and social workEvan Ratliff
The love machine: Building computers that care.Sociology and social workDavid Diamond
The [?]-man march.(estimating sizes of crowds)(Crowd Space: Bodies Count)(The New World: 30 Spaces for the 21st Century)(Cover Story)Sociology and social work 
The meter maid's new best friend.(high-tech parking meters )Sociology and social workTodd Woody
The new electric company: Microsoft is a 21st-century utility -- fat, slow, and vulnerable.(includes related article titled "10 Things That Bug [Mitch] Kapor About Outlook')(Start: Technology-Business-People)Sociology and social workJames Surowiecki
The new Middle Kingdom .(the 2010 World's Fair in Shanghai, China)(Future Space: Where the Next World Will Happen )(Cover Story)Sociology and social work 
The new nature vs. nurture: science is pulling the long-standing debate in strange directions.(Start: Technology-Business-People )Sociology and social workSteven Johnson
The new road to the White House: how grassroots blogs are transforming presidential politics .(View: Lessig )(Column)Sociology and social workLawrence Lessig
The new world: 30 spaces for the 21st century.(Guest Edited by Rem Koolhaas)(Cover Story)Sociology and social workRem Koolhaas, Markus Schaefer, Reinier de Graaf, Theo Deutinger, Nanne de Ru
The next plastic revolution .(polymer plastics)(Industry Overview)Sociology and social workMichael Behar
The prisoner of Sex.com: Gary Kremen started Match.com but ended up with chump change. Then he got caught up in Sex.com, where success left him lying on his back in the gutter.Sociology and social workIan White
The Puzzle Master.(Will Shortz)(Interview)Sociology and social workJonah Freedman
The race to kill Kazaa.(Cover Story)Sociology and social workTodd Woody
The robot air corps .(Unmanned Aerial Vehicles )Sociology and social workScott Kirsner
These are definitely not Scully's breasts; inside one man's crusade to save Gillian Anderson and the rest of the world from the plague of fake celebrity porn .(True Crime )Sociology and social workDavid Kushner
The shape of things to come; the bell curve, that beautiful form of regularity is getting turned upside down.(the "well curve" )(Start: Technology-Business-People)Sociology and social workDaniel H. Pink
The world wide lab .(Research Space )(The New World: 30 Spaces for the 21st Century )(Cover Story)Sociology and social workBruno Latour
This gun for hire: they're the State Department's private army, the pentagon's smallpox task force, the IT squad for everyone from the FBI to the SEC. Welcome to the future of national security -- brought to you by Computer Sciences Corporation, a division of Homeland security Inc.Sociology and social workDan Baum
To live and die in L.A.(Hollywood's exclusive tracking boards)Sociology and social workBen Mezrich
Trailblazer .(use of computers by Bushmen in southern Africa)(Bush Space: Looking Up and Down At the Same Time)(The New World: 30 Spaces for the 21st Century )(Cover Story)Sociology and social workSanford Kwinter
Ultrawideband of brothers: a mobile network of high-powered radio transmitters will track marines in the field. Next up: firefighters and school kids.(Aether Wire & Location)Sociology and social workBlaise Zerega
Under the influence: as corporate funding of drug R&D grows, so do the pro-industry results.Sociology and social workPatrick di Justo
Up with technology! Just when it feels like everything's in a downward spiral, US tech sectors are quietly defying the economic slump.(Industry Overview)Sociology and social workErik Malinowski
Valley 3.0: learning to love life in the bust belt.(Boom Space: What's Left After the Thrill is Gone?)(The New World: 30 Spaces for the 21st Century)(Cover Story)Sociology and social workPo Bronson
War of the wheels.(drag racing)(includes related article titled "Muscles vs. Microchips")(Cover Story)Sociology and social workCole Coonce
We're all gonna die; but it won't be from germ warfare, runaway nanobots, or shifting magnetic poles: a skeptical guide to doomsday .(a review of various doomsday theories, from least threatening to most )Sociology and social workGregg Easterbrook
When bad chemicals make good.(Reengineering: Poison is Your Friend: DDT; Botulinum; Thalidomide; Napalm )Sociology and social work 
When darkness falls.(night vision binoculars: ATN's Night Shadow Gen 4; Newcon Optik's BN-5; and Night Owl's Night Hawk)(Hardware Review)(Product/Service Evaluation)(Buyers Guide)Sociology and social workAlison Willmore
When they talk tech, DC listens.(advisors to government officials: Donald Kerr; Ron Sega; Andy Seos; and Ed Thomas)Sociology and social workDustin Goot
Why GM food could start a trade war.(genetically modified crops)Sociology and social workDavid Appell
Why LEDs are everywhere.(light-emitting diodes)(Industry Overview)Sociology and social workSimson Garfinkel
Why stock options still rule: nothing lures top talent like the chance to get really rich. Watch out, Microsoft.(Start: Technology-Business-People)Sociology and social workMichael S. Malone
Why voice over Wi-Fi has telcos dialing 911; forget the Web without wires. Try the phone without the phone company.(mobile broadband )(Industry Overview)Sociology and social workPeter Rojas
Wingman: get ready to fly at 186 mph.(Alban Geissler's Skyray )Sociology and social workMichael Abrams
Your permanent record.(why we need more digital memory, with improved software tools to manage it )(Column)Sociology and social workDavid Vaskevitch
You wanna piece of this?(sports videogames)(includes related article about the Xbox game console vs the PlayStation 2)(Industry Overview)(Cover Story)Sociology and social work 
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