Word: controller
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...among some lab dwellers. "I'm interested in the challenge, the exciting lifestyle," says Alan, 30, a postdoctoral student of biomedicine at M.I.T. (He and others asked that their last names not be used.) The dotcoms are too volatile, he says, and too many big companies are "on cruise control." Quentin, 20, a junior student of electrical engineering, says, "It's kind of a noble...
...that works here. Dick Thompson, who is based in Washington, wrote "Can We Save California?" Fred Golden, a TIME contributor, handled "Will We Meet E.T.?" Madeleine Nash, our senior science correspondent, has just finished a book on El Nino, so she was the ideal choice to write "Will We Control the Weather?" Leon Jaroff, who used to do Phil's job as science editor before becoming the founding editor of Discover magazine, wrote "Will a Killer Asteroid Hit the Earth?" (Leon is such a firm believer in this danger that the International Astronomical Union named an asteroid after him.) David...
...Gates & Co. have clamped down on Easter eggs. The reason has to do less with the fear of seeing themselves in a state of undress than with the fear of lawsuits from corporations that want their software to undergo thorough quality control. You're not likely to find any eggs in Microsoft's post-1997 output...
These feats of pinpoint mind reading and control are not fantasies. They have already been performed by Stanford University neuroscientist William Newsome. Not with people, of course, but with monkeys. Yet few scientists doubt the trick would work with...
...will this revolution go? Will we ever understand the brain as well as we understand the heart, say, or the kidney? Will mad scientists or dictators have the means to control our thoughts? Will neurologists scan our brains down to the last synapse and duplicate the wiring in a silicon chip, giving our minds eternal life...