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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. Coolest one by core+plexus · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "The endlessly versatile carbon nanotube was then shown also to have an explosive side in April. A laboratory accident revealed that a bundle of carbon nanotubes will explode when exposed to an ordinary camera flash." Just in time for New Years!

  2. Warning - Blatant Self-Promotion Below... by Yoda2 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I taught computers to learn nouns and verbs based on visual perception this year. See here for more info.

  3. Robotic surgeons better have made it! by SHEENmaster · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They can never have too much coffee (caffeine is only good in some professions), and if they run Windows you have an easy-to-win malpractice suit that benifits yourself as well as the open source community!

    True, I didn't RTFA but that's what posts are for!

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  4. Quick summary: No tech breakthroughs in 2002 by njdj · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Sadly, the article on technology describes nothing that can really be described as a breakthrough. There were some more little steps towards quantum computing, but this journey did not start in 2002 and certainly did not reach fruition in 2002.

    An honest title for the article would have been "No technology breakthroughs in 2002", but that wouldn't have sold any magazines ...