Your 0.002 cent's worth
Article Abstract:
The Internet is becoming an avenue for transactions involving very little amount of money. Major companies and entrepreneurs alike are offering online micropayments to allow consumers to buy such items as newspaper articles, new-product reports or images for computer screens.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1999
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
A digital fix for the Third World?
Article Abstract:
Advances in information technology and telecommunications have the potential to help Third World nations, but only small portions of society tend to benefit from these advances. New technology appears to be more useful in newly industrialized countries.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1993
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Digital dyslexia: neural network mimics the effects of stroke
Article Abstract:
Stroke patients are often plagued by a dyslexia that causes semantic as well as visual errors. A computer program that models the functioning of neural networks has shown that injury to the networks causes both kinds of mistakes.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1991
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
- Abstracts: Plunder goes high tech. A walkman for the Internet. Radio that bytes
- Abstracts: Measuring the metabolism of small organisms. A year for the oceans
- Abstracts: New hope for hearts. For the birds. Edutech
- Abstracts: Surface complexation model for the heavy metal adsorption on natural sediment. Temporal trends in the isotope signature of air-borne sulfur in Central Europe
- Abstracts: Digital TV: it's in the signal. Winter Olympics. Into the abyss