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Check out Part I and Part II in our series about life in the year 2020. Our cities are a mess. Based on grids of pavement for devices of transport that pump poisonous fumes into the atmosphere, they and their inhabitants are slowly but inexorably being choked into submission. Many of them are rotting from the core – their eroding downtowns often unattainable in heavy traffic from the distant, sprawling suburbs that surround them. And in those… Read More

You might not hop in a car powered by a hydrogen fuel cell and drive to work until decades from now, but you can charge up your gadgets based on a different type of fuel cell in just a few days. After a long line of prototypes, Toshiba has finally released the Dynario, its first methanol-powered gadget charger. Fill the Dynario with methanol – the same stuff powering dragsters, monster trucks and Indy cars – and it reacts with ambient oxygen in… Read More

Tying high-tech innovation to prosperity, President Bush is using a speech in a swing state to address an election-year vulnerability: a sluggish job market that hasn't rebounded with the nationaleconomy. In a speech Monday in Minnesota, Bush is urging Congress to slap a permanent ban on taxes consumers pay for high-speed Internet hookups called broadband. He also is touting proposals to makeelectronic medical records the norm and move… Read More