Message-ID: <3465077.1075855134897.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 11:15:59 -0800 (PST) From: tqeditor-admin@lists.economist.com To: dbaughm@ect.enron.com Subject: Economist TQ Dialogue Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-From: "Economist TQ Editor" <tqeditor-admin@lists.economist.com>@ENRON X-To: dbaughm@ect.enron.com X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \Edward_Baughman_Jan2002\Baughman Jr., Don\Inbox X-Origin: Baughman-E X-FileName: dbaughm (Non-Privileged).pst [IMAGE]=09[IMAGE]=09[IMAGE][IMAGE] =09 =09=09=09[IMAGE]=09 =09[IMAGE]=09From: Nick Val?ry, Editor, The Economist Technology Quarterly = Subject: TQ Dialogue =09=09 =09=09=09[IMAGE]=09 =09[IMAGE]=09Dear Economist.com reader cover imageThe latest issue of The = Economist Technology Quarterly (TQ) has just been published. For the first = time you will be able to discuss the articles online at Economist.com in ou= r TQ Dialogue. This issue of TQ has articles on: The loss of diversity T= he broad diversity of technological design appears to be narrowing. Is inno= vation running out of big ideas? Read full article | Discuss Speech rec= ognition After a number of false starts, speech recognition is finally bec= oming an important interface between man and machine. In the process it is = helping to slash costs in business, create new services on the Internet, an= d make cars a lot safer and easier to drive. Where else will the technolog= y lead? Read full article | Discuss Deep-water oil exploration The worl= d's apparently unquenchable thirst for oil is fuelling a boom in exotic kin= ds of exploration technology for use in much deeper waters. Will this just = accelerate depletion? Read full article | Discuss IBM and the hard-drive= business The innovation of the "giant magneto-resistive" head?the breakth= rough that boosted the capacity of hard-drives from a few gigabytes to 100 = gigabytes and more?came from chance observation, basic research and a vast,= painstaking search for the right materials. But is GMR merely a stop-gap s= olution? Read full article | Discuss Virtual organs Better tools, and m= ore data, mean that creating virtual organs by computer is no longer a pipe= -dream. How will this help the drug industry and surgery? Read full article= | Discuss Designer plastics After years of development, a new breed of= catalysts called metallocenes is shaking up the plastics business, rapidly= penetrating commodity markets and promising a new age of cheap designer pl= astics. Are they the revolution proponents claim? Read full article | Disc= uss The wireless pen With 5,000 years of continuous development and bill= ions of satisfied customers to its credit, the pen may not seem like a prod= uct in need of radical improvement. Yet plans are afoot to overhaul the hum= ble writing instrument completely. With children learning to use computers = before learning to write, is this a solution in search of a problem? Read = full article | Discuss Agricultural innovation Richard Jefferson wants = to change the face of agriculture by putting innovation back into the hands= of farmers. How will he overcome the intellectual-property problems that h= ave tied up much of the genetic material needed? Read full article | Discu= ss We also write about the new crop of video-game consoles , Infiniband s= ervers , the aerodynamics of F1 racing-cars , automated e-mail replies , ul= trasound surgery and wind-up cell phones . As you read these articles, we= hope you will want to discuss them with us and with each other. Go to http= ://www.economist.com/forums/tq , where you can post your thoughts and read = other people's. Please remember that this is intended as an online forum = for genuine discussion, and the bigger the differences in opinion the bette= r. It is not a place for offensiveness or shameless self-promotion, corpora= te or personal. The next TQ in print will take the best of the threads th= at have evolved in the TQ Dialogue since the previous issue and discuss the= m. The current TQ has an analysis of readers' responses to the question of= what will be the technological drivers of the next Schumpeter wave of econ= omic activity. So, let the heated arguments begin. Yours sincerely Nic= k Val?ry Editor, The Economist Technology Quarterly tqeditor@economist.com = P.S. Please feel free to pass this message on to your friends and colle= agues. [IMAGE] =09=09 =09=09=09[IMAGE]=09 =09[IMAGE]=09You have received this e-mail because you requested updates a= bout Economist.com. To stop receiving this newsletter, please visit: http:= //economist.com/members/optin.cfm , log in and complete the form. Read ab= out our sponsorship policy . [IMAGE] =09=09 [IMAGE]=09=09=09[IMAGE]=09 [IMAGE] GO TO ECONOMIST.COM ? Copyright 2001 The Economist Newspaper and= The Economist Group. All rights reserved. [IMAGE] Privacy Policy | Terms= & Conditions =09 [IMAGE]