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Winter 2000


Volume 15, Issue 3

FEATURES

Today fiber optics is the backbone of the Internet and global communications. Thirty-five years ago most people thought it was impossible.

Over the last few decades a host of new technologies have let doctors explore the inner workings of the human body from the outside with unprecedented detail and precision
The artist EDWARD SOREL updates for our century a classic view of Americans who changed the world
A LOOK AT WHERE WE’VE BEEN AND WHERE WE MAY BE GOING

DDT was a savior in the 1940s and a curse by the 1960s. Its story shows how a technology that does enormous good can also do enormous harm.

Not just because it’s the technological embarrassment of the millennial moment but also because the story of how it came about contains some surprising and important lessons about the nature of change in our time

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