Herb Brody
Chapter 16.  Great Expectations: Why Technology Predictions Go Awry

Herb Brody is deputy editor at Technology Review, MIT's magazine of innovation.  He was senior editor at the magazine from 1990 to 2000.  Previously he served as managing editor at Laser Focus, associate managing editor at HighTechnology (since renamed High Technology Business), and senior editor at PC/Computing.  At Technology Review, Brody specializes in the impact of the Internet on business, science, and society.  Born in 1957, he holds a B.S. degree in physics.

Links:
Several of Brody's articles may be found on Technology Review's web site, among them:

e-Toys Unite! (July/August 1999)--the "Bluetooth" standard for short-range wireless communication.

Taking Back the Web (September/October 1999)--Are new services ways to share ideas or grafitti?

Wired Science (October 1996).  The Internet is nourishing today's research enterprise by fostering collaboration and speeding the distribution of new data.

The Fractal Net (May/June 1999).  AT&T breaks the code for Internet traffic.

"Every Word a Link,"  A short article about software (GuruNet and Babylon) that allows users to click on every word on a web page and find definitions and links).  Orignally published in Technology Review; posted on GuruNet's (now Atomica's) site.


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