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Towards the end of the cold war Ronald Reagan announced plans to use powerful lasers to shoot down any incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles that the Soviet Union aimed at America. The lasers were real but the plan was fanciful. Scientists now propose a more modest system, aimed at insects rather than nuclear warheads. They think lasers could be used to zap the mosquitoes that carry malaria, a disease which kills more than a million people each year, most of them children, and debilitates hundreds of millions more.rnResearchers at Intellectual Ventures, an innovations company established by former Microsoft executives in Bellevue, Washington, have developed what they call a photonic mosquito fence. It has a series of posts, each of which is equipped with a cheap camera and a light bulb (which will be swapped for a light-emitting diode in future versions). The cameras are connected to a central computer.
机译:冷战快结束时,里根宣布计划使用强激光击落苏联瞄准美国的所有洲际弹道导弹。激光是真实的,但计划是空想。现在,科学家们提出了一个更为适度的系统,该系统针对昆虫而不是核弹头。他们认为激光可以用来消灭携带疟疾的蚊子,这种疾病每年杀死超过100万人,其中大多数是儿童,并使成千上万的人衰弱。rn由前微软创立的创新公司Knowledge Ventures的研究人员华盛顿州贝尔维尤(Bellevue)的高管已经开发出了所谓的光子防蚊网。它有一系列的柱子,每个柱子都配备有便宜的相机和灯泡(在将来的版本中将被换成发光二极管)。摄像机连接到中央计算机。

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    《The economist》 |2009年第8634期|50-1050-10|共1页
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