Perspective: The energy-storage revolution

Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage: Status and Perspective

The SMES (Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage) is one of the very few direct electric energy storage systems. Its energy density is limited by mechanical considerations to a rather low value on the order of ten kJ/kg, but its power density can be extremely high. This makes SMES particularly interesting for high-power and short-time applications (pulse power sources). A SMES releases its ene...

IBM Storage and the NVM Express Revolution

The cognitive revolution: a historical perspective.

Cognitive science is a child of the 1950s, the product of a time when psychology, anthropology and linguistics were redefining themselves and computer science and neuroscience as disciplines were coming into existence. Psychology could not participate in the cognitive revolution until it had freed itself from behaviorism, thus restoring cognition to scientific respectability. By then, it was be...

The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective

During the past two decades, Robert Allen’s researches into English agriculture have fundamentally reshaped our understanding of the nature and pace of rising agricultural productivity between the late middle ages and the 19th century. More recently, Allen has turned his attention to the study of real wages as a measure of economic development and begun investigating the progress of wages in ot...

Linear perspective: a visual revolution.

Molecular biology revolutionized the way we look at other sciences related to medicine, including biochemistry. Currently, genetic testing is fast becoming a routine laboratory tool, and it is the foundation for developing personalized treatments. Revolutions, or paradigm changes, both in art and science have always been a combined result of the work of exceptional individuals, interdisciplinar...