America's critical transportation, power, and communications systems remain quite vulnerable and lack funds to remedy that.
A detailed feature article on the U.S. military's modernization effort to prepare for 'network-centric warfare'.
The U.S. military is racing to ready wireless broadband communications for combat soldiers, a move that could dramatically alter the way wars are fought and won, just as the Internet has altered the way the wired world shares and uses data.
The theorists' much-hyped predictions about nanotechnology won't become reality anytime soon. Meanwhile, more humble applications are making headway.
While their commercial use in cars is years away, interest from telecoms and other big buyers might push fuel cells out of their niche market.
The author argues that the recent string of intelligence successes against al Qaeda is due to our superior 'hacking' capabilities.