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The Year in Technology

Posted by michael on from the year-end-filler dept.

bedessen writes "It's that time again, when we look back on the year in summary. New Scientist has an article "2002, The Year in Technology", as well as "The Year in Medicine and Biology." Popular Science brings us "The 15th Annual Best of What's New.""

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  1. Cloning #1 of course by corebreech · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That might be #1 for this decade, yes?

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  2. The sad parts are.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ..The vast majority of the world doesn't really give a fsck. ..The final solution of whether one is prime or not will probably lead to a technological revolution the likes of which we haven't seen since the Rennaisance. :p

    Physicists? Biogeneticists? Cloning? Those don't scare me.

    Mathematicians scare me. ;)

  3. I doubt it by bigsexyjoe · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It hasn't been confirmed, so it wouldn't be responsible to put it on the list. The claim is rather dubious. Anyway, there was no technological hurdle which was crossed. Other mammals have been cloned.

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  4. Re:Hyperthreading on desktop by Mononoke · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Next year, hyperthreading and increase in FSB (800 Mhz!) plus memory bandwidth will truly obsolete a lot of computers.
    No, it'll truly obsolete a lot of XBoxes. Computers will continue to be as useful as they've always been.

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