Frederick E. Allen

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Frederick E. Allen is the Leadership Editor of Forbes.com.  He was a long-time editor of American Heritage, and the Editor of Invention & Technology from 1984 to 2007. 

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The 3 Faces Of George Washington | November/December 2006
How Mount Vernon Rebuilt The First President Read >>
Where They Went To See The Future | March 2003
The story of Chicago in the nineteenth century is the story of the making of America, Donald L. Miller says. A new PBS documentary based on a book he wrote shows why. Read >>
From Boom To Boom | February/March 2002
TODAY’S OLYMPIC SKI CENTER IS YESTERDAY’S RUGGED AND RAGGED SILVER MINING CAPITAL Read >>
The New Time Travel | April/May 2002
HIGH TECHNOLOGY WELCOMES US INTO THE PAST Read >>
The Myth Of The Paperless Office | November/December 2002
AND WHY YOURS IS MESSIER THAN EVER Read >>
The Myth Of Artificial Intelligence | February/March 2001
COMPUTERS THAT COULD THINK WERE ONCE RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER. NOW THEY’RE FAR OFF. Read >>
The Voting Machine Problem | April 2001
WHY THE TROUBLE IN FLORIDA WAS BOUND TO HAPPEN Read >>
Present At The Creation | May 2001
WILLIAM HEWLETT AND THE BIRTH OF SILICON VALLEY Read >>
Hitler And IBM | July/August 2001
DID A COMPANY AND A MACHINE SPAWN EVIL? Read >>
The New Warfare And Old Truths | November/December 2001
How our technologies are still our allies Read >>
Back To The Future | May/June 2000
Beyond the myth of ever-faster high-tech change and radical new breaks from the past Read >>
Since When Can You Patent A Gene? | July/August 2000
And why is it not really so different from patenting anything else? Read >>
When Sex Drives Technological Innovation | September 2000
And why it has to Read >>
London Bridge Is Falling Down | October 2000
And other high-tech debacles and how we learned to cope with them Read >>
Panama’s Canal | November 2000
The high-tech wonder of 1914—now out of American hands—helps keep the high-tech world of 2000 moving Read >>

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