1.   Most alternative technologies work best on a small scale.

2.   And how does this technology work?

3.   And the project gives the company a chance to show that its technology can work, Panicali said.

4.   As technology works on our expectations of instant satisfaction, so the argument goes, it also changes us physically, which allows for even less patience.

5.   Asynchronous technology works by routing data in discrete packets each with its own address, rather than in continuous data streams.

6.   Basically, the technology works by taking elements of a picture and converting it into computer language -- numbers made up of zeros and ones.

7.   A special semiconductor is required for the technology to work.

8.   But Genentech, Chiron, and other companies are betting heavily that the technology will work.

9.   But John Redman, director of marketing for Cellular One Boston, said the technology is working well and is available to all existing customers.

10.   But researchers are confident the technology will work.