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Editorial Review :
Published by MIT since 1899, Technology Review is the authority on the future of technology. The award-wining editorial team crafts investigative, in-depth stories that focus on the latest innovations in IT, biotech, nanotech, and energy that are about to hit the marketplace. From the "zero-emissions city" in Abu Dhabi to the early-warning earthquake system in China and the next-generation applications for social networking, each issue of Technology Review issue identifies and analyzes the most important emerging technologies from around the globe. There is only one publication that provides indispensable knowledge about where technology will take us, and how it affects the world around us. Simply put, It’s about staying ahead of the curve by knowing what lies immediately beyond it. The Kindle Edition of Technology Review contains most articles found in the print edition, but it will not include all images. For your convenience, issues are auto-delivered wirelessly to your Kindle every other month at the same time the print edition hits the newsstand.
Customer Review :
Please explain pricing
Can somebody please explain by this costs $1.25 for a bi-weekly subscription and $2.99 for one issue?
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For the non-techies
Overall, despite my gripes, I think this is an enjoyable magazine IF you are not looking for a magazine that provides deep technical overview of the future technologies.
Most technology articles are 300 words or less and they seem to be geared towards the non-techies. At best, each technology article provide a very shallow overview of the foreseeable technology changes. Moreover, each issue is very short in content. I have counted 30 short articles (most of them fewer than 300 words) on each issue.
The magazine is published once every two months. Effectively, you are paying $2.50 per issue (as of 5/27/09) when you purchase the Kindle version.
I have, however, enjoyed reading this magazine as I usually do reading Popular Mechanics and[...] I think this magazine is worthwhile for its target (non-techie) audience.
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Unfortunate Truth?
I enjoy the discussions on new technologies, but not the baseless politicized misrepresentations of science.
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Excellent content, formatting needs overhaul.
I've received two issues of this magazine so far and it's been good for the price. The content is varied and significantly more detailed when compared to similar magazines along the lines of Popular Science and Popular Mechanics. The formatting, however, needs serious work as some articles can be difficult to read.
Examples of this are:
- Stray hyphens from the original magazine formatting (i.e., "tech-nology" on a single line and -significant -amounts -of -words -with -hyphens -in -front -of -them, even if they're in the middle of a line)
- Lines of text that reference non-existent pictures or graphics (should either be removed or reworded in proofreading if it's not possible to include the graphic)
- And finally, the strangest out of all of them, there's one word per issue that will always have an umlaut over one of it's vowels. This occurs on every incidence of that single word throughout the magazine.
Additionally, when graphics are included (usually graphs and charts) they're useless. Not because they're monochrome interpretations of a color image---no, there's a bigger problem that comes before that. The issue is that the images are merely thumbnails...even if you click on them to make the image full screen. Either way you have a useless image. The thumbnails are too small, and the expanded image is a mass of indistinct pixels through which you can scry only a blurry line (or bar) graph, or pie chart.
Back on the positive side, unlike the other magazines available for the Kindle, this magazine is more dependent on text than pictures. Therefore, any pictures typically are not an integral part of the article. Plus, it's cheap. (although, if I was picky, I'd say it should be cheaper since it's bi-monthly---Newsweek is only 24 cents more per month, and that's a weekly magazine)
I'll be keeping the subscription. The content is still very readable despite its flaws, and it makes for great reading when you've finished the daily newspaper but don't have enough time to read a chapter of a novel.
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Where's the Beef?
I just received my first issue dated April 1st, 2009. I was very interested in the cover article on "The 10 Emerging Technologies of 2009". But where is it? There is only the opening introduction and then nothing - not one of those top 10 technologies. After a couple days of searching the mag on the Kindle thinking "it must be here", I gave up. Upon going to the website for Technology Review, there it is again, but fully available. All 10 technologies with individual articles on each. I am not paying for a subscription to get a teaser to bring me to their website. I saw other articles in this months issue that were not available also, such "Electric Avenue" and "How Lasers Can Heal Surgeons' Incisions". I did see references to these articles in the "From the Editor" and "Contributors" sections.
This is not acceptable to me. I am paying for a product, the full magazine in this case and not teasers to get me to come to their website.
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