Power to the people
Power to the peopleTechnology and development: A growing number of initiatives are promoting bottom-up ways to deliver energy to the world’s poor AROUND 1.5 billion people, or more than a fifth of the world's population, have no access to electricity, and a billion more have only an unreliable and intermittent supply. Of the people without electricity, 85% live in rural areas or on the fringes of
Putting your money where your mouse is
Putting your money where your mouse isCrowdfunding: Artists, musicians and writers are using the internet to aggregate lots of small donations to fund their work WIKIPEDIA, a giant online encyclopedia compiled by volunteers, is the product of the aggregation of lots of people's spare time. An example of “crowdsourcing”, it demonstrates that on the internet, as in the real world, many hands make li
The net generation, unplugged
The net generation, unpluggedTechnology and society: Is it really helpful to talk about a new generation of “digital natives” who have grown up with the internet? Totally different from previous generations—or just younger? THEY are variously known as the Net Generation, Millennials, Generation Y or Digital Natives. But whatever you call this group of young people—roughly, those born between 1980
The many voices of the web
The many voices of the webThe internet: New combinations of human and computer translation are making web pages available in foreign languages THE web connects over a billion people, but it is fragmented by language. Anglophone web-users have as many pages to choose from as Chinese speakers, and there are roughly as many blogs in Japanese as there are in English. And although the Arabic blogospher
Beyond the ether
Beyond the etherBob Metcalfe has grabbed opportunity at every turn in his multiple careers—ever since he invented Ethernet at the age of 27 Illustration by Andy Potts SUFFERING from jet lag and insomnia while staying at a friend's house in Washington, DC, in 1972, Bob Metcalfe came across the proceedings of a conference held by the American Federation of Information Processing Societies. It certai
Read all about it
Read all about itDisplay technology: Readers of electronic books must choose between long battery life or vibrant, living colour. Could they have both? Getty Images THE sudden surge in the popularity of e-readers—slate-like devices, such as Amazon's Kindle, on which electronic books can be read—has been one of the big surprises of 2009. Recessions are often a good time to launch new products, as o
A question of character
A question of characterMobile phones: Typing text into a mobile phone is fiddly enough in English. How do handsets and their users manage in other languages? Illustration by Belle Mellor SENDING a text message is often the most time-consuming and expensive way to transfer data. Yet it remains popular not only in countries that use Latin-based languages, such as America, Britain and most of Europe,
Greenery on the march
Greenery on the marchClean technology: Finding alternative sources of energy is becoming a pressing military necessity for America’s armed forces Reuters THE air around Bagram airfield, the main American base in Afghanistan, is thick with the smell of jet fuel, the roar of aircraft taking off on bombing missions and the constant drone of electricity generators. Outside the ramparts, a snakelike co
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