Technology Quarterly
Hide and Seek
Defence technology
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War among the sensors poses new challenges, says Shashank Joshi
- Like smartphones, but lethal: The technology of seeing and shooting your enemies
- All the targets, all the time: Synthetic-aperture radar is making the Earth’s surface watchable 24/7
- See-through seas: Finding submarines is likely to get easier
- Lots of signal, lots of noise: Where to process data, and how to add them up
- Fierce contests: Deception and destruction can still blind the enemy
- Sources and acknowledgments
Like smartphones, but lethal
The technology of seeing and shooting your enemies
War among the sensors poses new challenges, says Shashank Joshi
All the targets, all the time
Synthetic-aperture radar is making the Earth’s surface watchable 24/7
Cloud cover and the dark of the Moon matter no more
See-through seas
Finding submarines is likely to get easier
But it will still be hard, and some waters will remain inviolable
Lots of signal, lots of noise
Where to process data, and how to add them up
The dark art of data fusion
Fierce contests
Deception and destruction can still blind the enemy
Many outcomes will still remain uncertain
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Future Food
Food
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Can the whole first-world food system be changed, asks Jon Fasman
- The new Anthropocene diet: Technology can help deliver cleaner, greener delicious food
- Mooving on: Cows are no longer essential for meat and milk
- Cell-side markets: Meat no longer requires animal slaughter
- Culture club: Microbes are being used more and more to make delicious food
- Green castles in the sky: Vertical farms are growing more and more vegetables in urban areas
- Features and bugs: Feeding 9bn people will mean reimagining the edible world