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COVER: CUTTING EDGE A6 TIME presents this year's World Economic Forum Technology Pioneers...
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM...
...exponential growth of computing power. Name a challenge today, and chances are you will find a company with world-altering answers. Want proof? Meet some of the 2004 Tech Pioneers--this year's crop of 30 cutting-edge amazers, which will be announced this week by the World Economic Forum, prior to its annual meeting in Davos. They are working to combat AIDS, cancer, blindness and hunger. They're developing software that can keep track of anyone or anything, and new sources of power to wean the world from oil. Wish them luck...
...Life Sciences is part of a crop of this year's World Economic Forum Technology Pioneers, whose innovations are making the world a healthier place by tackling malnutrition, combating diseases like AIDS and cancer and preventing the leading mechanized cause of death, car crashes. Some of these pioneering firms--like Optobionics, a company based in Naperville, Ill., that is perfecting a microchip to help the blind see--have a decidedly cyborg bent. Others use advanced computer technology to stimulate humans into action, like the dashboard equipment from Seeing Machines that detects when drivers become drowsy and then jolts them awake...
...than two decades ago, this career chameleon was making tracks of a different kind, helping produce Debby Boone's 1977 hit You Light Up My Life. Today he is trying to light up something else. His New York City--based company, Medis Technologies, is one of several World Economic Forum Technology Pioneers developing new ways to deliver clean electricity to homes and cars, not to mention mobile phones and digital cameras. "The market is huge," says Lifton, and he's not exaggerating: he wants to power up the world's billions of portable gadgets...