Herb Brody, in Technology Review (July 1991), Building W59, MIT, Cambridge, Mass. 02139.

It was the bright world of tomorrow. Solar
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cells and nuclear fusion were to provide pollution-free electricity, automobiles were to run on batteries. factories were to rely extensively on robots, and videotex terminals were to be important fixtures in American homes. But the technological fu-ture envisioned just a few years ago has failed to arrive, notes Brody, a senior edi- tor of Technology Review. I...