Word: endingly
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...group of disaffected--those who are Luddites and proud of it. Half of those with no Internet access, around 20%, were simply not interested in getting online. "That will take a generation or two to straighten out," predicts Professor Jeffrey Cole, author of the study. "The U.S. may well end up being the last industrialized nation to achieve 90% Internet penetration...
There should be no such surprise, given the way innovation emerges--the way it has always emerged. In the history of scientific and technological endeavor, there are few if any cases in which the end was exactly what was intended at the beginning. In the mid-19th century, William Perkin sought a way to make artificial quinine out of coal tar and ended up with the first aniline dye. Alexander Graham Bell thought the telephone would be used only to inform people of the arrival of telegrams. Alessandro Volta designed a eudiometer for exploding bad-smelling gases with electricity...
...molecular signatures of cancer--the aberrant proteins found on malignant cells, for instance--and map the locations and shapes of tumors. If engineered to carry drugs or genes, the sensors could treat cancers one cell at a time, attacking malignant cells but leaving healthy ones unharmed. The result: an end to the pharmaceutical carpet bombing we call chemotherapy, not to mention its attendant miseries...
...apply them to solve specific problems?" Mihail Roco, adviser to the National Science Foundation's $150 million nanotechnology initiative, believes we will have an answer soon enough. He predicts that the rudiments of nanotechnology will aid the manufacture and design of up to half of all drugs by the end of this decade...
...end of this decade, it will be possible for people without technical training to use an even more sophisticated generation of design tools to create complex electronic and mechanical systems. Many products will be designed not by research-and-development departments (at least not directly) but by professionals who understand the needs of their markets, aided by increasingly intelligent Web-research tools. Even consumers will design their own products, ranging from their clothes to their homes. We will continue to regard these machines as tools, but they will emerge as remarkably powerful amplifiers of the human creative process...