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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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    1. Re:Cloning #1 of course by Mononoke · · Score: 4, Funny
      That might be #1 for this decade, yes?
      And #2, and #3, and #4, and #5.

      And #8.

      Cloning's not perfect yet.

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  2. Speaking of clones... by Joey+Patterson · · Score: 3, Funny

    I found it kind of funny that this ad (mirror) was displayed at the top of this page when I reloaded it to refresh the comments.

  3. 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!

  4. Re:I am surprised! by TheAntiCrust · · Score: 3, Informative

    Isnt 1 or 0 being a prime number unimportant? Perhaps my math isnt high enough yet (Math Analysis (Trig) in High school currently). Isnt it being a prime number just a label? Whats the significance? Its an interesting argument anyway. I like this kind of stuff, Im just wondering if it changes anything or is an argument for the sake of knowing.

  5. 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.

  6. Re:I am surprised! by Decimal · · Score: 4, Funny

    So that's why we don't WANT 1 to be a prime.

    I don't want 11 to be prime, either. Would you mind doing some of that math work and fixing this, please?

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  7. 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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  8. 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 ...

  9. mod parent DOWN by $carab · · Score: 4, Informative

    Youve got to be kidding me. This comment should not have been modded up in the first place.

    The message text is at:
    http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/58723.htm l

    I remember having a distinctly similar conversation with my third grade teacher when we learned about things like long division and prime numbers.