Health: To Your Health

From a nonpolluting fertilizer to help for millions of blind people, this year's Tech Pioneers are molding man and machine for the well-being of your body--and the world

WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM

Pioneers think big. It wasn't small-mindedness that led Lewis and Clark to conquer the Rocky Mountains, or Gordon Moore to predict the exponential growth of computing power. Name a challenge today, and chances are you will find a company with world-altering answers. Want proof? Meet some of the 2004 Tech Pioneers--this year's crop of 30 cutting-edge amazers, which will be announced this week by the World Economic Forum, prior to its annual meeting in Davos. They are working to combat AIDS, cancer, blindness and hunger. They're developing software that can keep track of anyone or anything, and new...

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