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Cover Story COVER STORY: The business of knowledge Creating tools to turn tacit knowledge into a corporate asset and give everyone better access to information. Knowledge Management: A Roundtable Mining Documents for Data Paw and Order on the Intranet Who Knows What Building Community Online Information at a Glance Features As fine as the eye can see Ultrasharp images, produced by a variety of technologies, are coming to a monitor or a head-mount display near you. A quantum leap for computing The once fanciful idea of building extremely powerful computers that process information according to the laws of quantum mechanics is inching closer to reality. Beyond the brink: A new view of extinction If they can get past the verge of collapse, ecosystems could be home free, according to a pair of researchers. Heating up Java The revolutionary cross-platform programming language is about to receive caffeine injections, boosting its performance to world class levels. Columns Perspective The Knowledge to Manage Knowledge Editor's Corner Fomenting Ferment Departments EXPLORATIONS Nanotech's new spin ,Halting hack attacks PIPELINE Risk reduction for Japanese investors,Fixing Chinese typos,The world's tiniest hard drive ,IBM and Ford collaborate on computer simulation SOLUTIONS Designer bubbles , Reversible watermarks LABNOTES Seeing 2020