Nothing Will Be Quickly the Same Again …

Digital Government, Open Architecture, and Innovation: Why Public Sector IT Will Never Be the Same Again

This article argues that the future of public services will be shaped increasingly by the evolution of global, Internet-enabled, digital platforms, with two distinctive technical and commercial features. First, use of open standards and architectures that separate standard business logic from supporting applications will allow government to become technologyand vendor-agnostic, freeing it from ...

Life Will Never Be the Same

It seems appropriate that the Cold Spring Harbor Genome Sequencing and Biology Meeting, which witnessed the creation of the Human Genome Organization (HUGO) in 1988, should this year present three major advances in genomic science: the completion of the ®nished sequence of Drosophila melanogaster; the announcement that 85% of the genome of Homo sapiens is now in draft sequence; and the complete...

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Biomonitoring and Biomarkers: Exposure Assessment Will Never Be the Same

Using modern analytical technology, it is now possible to measure almost any chemical present in our bodies. The future role of classical exposure assessment will perhaps be marginalized because biomonitoring programs can directly measure the concentration of chemicals that are present in biologic matrices. Although the concentration of chemicals in the environment will continue to be measured ...

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