OK, BUT...

I agree, basically with what the readers say with respect to your magazine. I miss seeing cryptobiology news and also things about the chaos theory and climate change, although I guess they will be soon to come. With respect to the articles in general, I think they are very good, but with a few exceptions. My objections always shoot towards the same direction: Why trivialize such serious subjects? I also miss some depth in the subjects that especially interest me: Advanced Robotics, and Particle/Quantum physics. I understand that you aren’t Investigation and Science but something else, and I recognize that it is something extraordinarily original. To finish up and imitate one of your sections: I’m in favor of the words in red because they allow a quick comprehension of the text for the non-experts, which is something that slows down the reading for these people. What I’m against though, is that I perceive a certain lack of order, which in science, as you know, is crucial. Keep it up, but be a bit more rigorous.   

Joaquín Diezdedos Feliu  - Barberá de Vallés – Barcelona –Spain.

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BACTERIOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY

I work at the Pasteur Institute in Geneva, a center that directly collaborates with the OMS in the study of polymorphonucleic leukocytes and gammaglobuline, among other things. The curing of many illnesses depends on its genetic alteration, by reinforcement or inhibition (like autoimmune illnesses). In this last field, I admit, it seems like we have come to a dead end and concretely in the fight against the fearsome multiple sclerosis, even though there have been many advances. We need new ideas and a good dose of your astonishing imaginative flow wouldn’t do us any harm. And now that we are asking, we are stranded when it comes to getting to the bottom of the functioning of the CD4-Th1-T cells, a variant of lymphocytes which attack the myelin that covers the axons up with neurons.

Don’t take our petition too seriously since, logically, the amount that you can go into depth in your articles and news is limited. Nevertheless, maybe we opened up another path for you to walk down. Thank you for letting us dream.   

   
Maria Jesús Almilcar Pérez – Geneva – Switzerland

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DIVE A LITTLE DEEPER

I’m a computer technician and my husband a neurologist. Both of us read the magazine separately, however, had the same feeling, that you “left us hanging”. In your article “Finally, TVR unified, the New Reality” I missed an explanation of the electrochemical mechanisms through which sensations are generated in the brain. A magazine like yours, halfway between science fiction and science I believe should be more speculative and on a more detailed level. By not doing it, like in this piece of news and in derived opinion articles (1) and (2) (in which, to top it off, only comment on the social repercussions of the “invention”) it pushes the scale towards the “soft” science fiction side despite what you promise in your Welcome Article. Anyway, keep it up and congratulations.   

Patricia Lanusse Hoyos – Buenos Aires - Argentina

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DYSON SPHERE VERSUS KENSNER RING

Your idea about a ring in geostationary orbit equipped with photovoltaic cells seems interesting and a mixture between Larri Niven’s concept of a huge artificial structure in “Ringworld” and the ‘inexhaustible’ energy source of the so-called “Dyson Sphere”. The English mathematician Freeman John Dyson theorized about the construction of an enormous sphere that would circle a star and this way capture almost all of the energy that it emitted. Such a technological display would correspond; obviously, to much more advanced civilizations than ours and would leave a much defined print after the observation of its electromagnetic signature. Dyson put the accent on the radiotelescopic observation of stars conducive to spectral infrared in order to detect intelligent civilizations.

Paul Appathurai – Sheffield - South Yorkshire – England

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THAT LITTLE DESIGN THAT YOU’VE GOT…

I’m a technological blogger and I just came back from a congress celebrated in Oviedo concerning the future of the internet, design, ‘Internet Fundamentals 2006’, where gurus spoke and they rest of us shut up and leaned something. I think that your web design is not up to standard with your fantastic content. It is impossible to know what the congress of ‘Internet Fundamentals 2052’ will be like, if it even exists. What is for sure though, is that the site doesn’t seem current and I have to say that, although correct, it isn’t exactly innovative. Regarding the subject of ‘usability’ I can’t give you more than 60%. Another thing: when will you have a multilingual support? Your website has taken quite a lot of care in ‘internationalizing’ the content so don’t punish the non Spanish speakers by depriving them of your futurist texts. Oh, and let the machines talk amongst themselves, they also have the right. I’m talking about the concept of microformats; they open up a world of extraordinary possibilities.
 

Beladio Artís Ramírez – Zaragoza – Spain – EU

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