Who's Cool in a Hot Medium
By Adam Cohen

To anyone living through it, this is the year in which dotcoms turned into dotbombs. Read your high-tech stock portfolio and weep. But the day will come when the pang of Amazon.com's 51% swoon and the demise of such content sites as Word.com will be seen a lot differently. Jean-Paul Sartre once said history could be viewed as if one were looking out the back of a moving car: all the nearby scenery is a blur that starts to come into focus somewhere down the road. On the info highway, things move even faster, but with every passing mile, the promise of cyberspace becomes clearer. The year 2000 will turn out to have been a pivotal moment in the emergence of the Internet, a Darwinian shake-out in which the fittest inhabitants of cyberspace survived and thrived.

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THIS MONTH'S INNOVATORS







Will the 21st century produce more important innovations than the last? Who will be the top inventors? Tell us if you agree with TIME's choices.


Which of the following breakthroughs do you think will come first?

The ability to clone humans
A cure for cancer
Extending the average life past 100
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Do you know the next Einstein? Is your neighbor working on the next great health breakthrough? If so, e-mail us the name of your nominee, explaining in 50 words or less why we should choose him or her.


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