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Issue 14.05 | May 2006

Cover Story

The Next Green Revolution
How tech is dragging environmentalism out of the anti-business, anti-consumer stone age.
By Alex Nikolai Steffen

 

Features

The Resurrection of Al Gore
He invented the Internet (sort of). He became President (almost). Now Al Gore has found his true calling: using technology to save the world.
By Karen Breslau

 

Rise of The Neo-Greens
Solar panels on the roof. Hybrid car in the garage. Organic cotton clothes in the closet. Today's eco-radicals are voting with their dollars.
By Daniel H. Pink

 

A Guide to the Online Video Explosion
Wired's must-have directory of the best clips on the Web.

 

JJ Abrams, Spymaster
The brains behind Alias and Lost talks about fireworks on the set of Mission: Impossible III and why he finally said yes to Tom Cruise.
By Jennifer Hillner

 

My Compliments to the Lab
Chef Grant Achatz is serving up a delicious, high tech vision of haute cuisine - like a frozen mango palate cleanser, hot off the antigriddle.
By Mark McClusky

 

Taming the Sea Monster
Strong, light, and frighteningly fast, carbon-fiber trimarans are rewriting every record in the books - when they're not breaking up in the middle of the icy Atlantic.
By Carl Hoffman

 

The RFID Hacking Underground
They can steal your smartcard, jack your car, or even clone the chip in your arm. And you won't feel a thing. Five tales from the newest cybercrime frontier.
By Annalee Newitz

 

Devo Is Dead. Long Live Devo.
Suddenly, '80s cult figure Mark Mothersbaugh is everywhere, from movie scores to television ads to a next-gen album produced by Disney.
By Robert Levine

 

Found
Artifacts from the future.
By Max Ellis

 

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