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The Internet is becoming an avenue for transactions involving very little amount of money. Major companies and entrepreneurs alike are offering online micropayments to allow consumers to buy such items as newspaper articles, new-product reports or images for computer screens.

Author: Wallich, Paul
Publisher: Scientific American, Inc.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1999
Analysis, Economic aspects, Internet, Electronic commerce, E-commerce, Online transaction processing

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A digital fix for the Third World?

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Advances in information technology and telecommunications have the potential to help Third World nations, but only small portions of society tend to benefit from these advances. New technology appears to be more useful in newly industrialized countries.

Author: Wallich, Paul, Stix, Gary
Publisher: Scientific American, Inc.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1993
International aspects, Information technology, Developing countries, Technology application, Telecommunications, Telecommunication

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Digital dyslexia: neural network mimics the effects of stroke

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Stroke patients are often plagued by a dyslexia that causes semantic as well as visual errors. A computer program that models the functioning of neural networks has shown that injury to the networks causes both kinds of mistakes.

Author: Wallich, Paul
Publisher: Scientific American, Inc.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1991
Research, Models, Computer networks, Software, Complications and side effects, Neural networks, Stroke (Disease), Stroke, Dyslexia, Neurophysiology

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