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==Overview==
This page is about recent progress in [[technology]], especially innovations which have not yet become widely available.
==Index==
* '''[[artificial intelligence]]''' ''(see also [[the singularity]])''
* '''Artificial Life'''
*: ''see also '''Reality Simulation''', [[genetic algorithm]]s''
** [http://www.spiderland.org/ breve simulation environment]: open source library and applications for 3d simulation of creatures evolved using [[genetic algorithm]]s
** 2006-02-17 [http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8737 Web program simplifies artificial gene design]
** 2006 [http://www.the-scientist.com/2006/1/1/30/1/ Is This Life?]
** [[wikipedia:Avida|Avida]] "is an artificial life software platform to study the evolutionary biology of self-replicating and evolving computer programs (digital organisms)."
** [http://www.alife.org/ International Society of Artificial Life] ''(this site doesn't seem to have much content; may remove it soon.)''
* '''Computing''' ''(see also [[computing]])''
** '''2006-12-11''' [http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB116580685002446215-lMyQjAxMDE2NjE1MTgxMDE2Wj.html Disk Drives Face Challenge If New Chip Comes to Market]
** '''2005-12-07''' [http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/12/051207180612.htm Breakthrough Chip Delivers Better Digital Pictures For Less Power]
** [http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8158 Moving print adverts coming soon]: printable display technology
* '''Cryogenics'''
** '''2006-07-14''' [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.07/posts.html?pg=4 Stuck Pig]: progress in short-term cryogenic suspension for surgical purposes
* '''Cybernetics''', the technology of human-computer interfacing
** [[speech assistive technology]]
*** [[speech processing software]]: text-to-speech and speech-to-text
** [[touchscreen]] technology, especially multi-touch
** '''2007-10-03''' [http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9790825-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20 MIT develops brain-to-machine algorithm]: "Lakshminarayan "Ram" Srinivasan, lead author of a paper on the subject, said MIT's new graphical models are applicable no matter what measurement technique is used."
** '''2007-03-04''' [http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2007/03/04/nanoparticle-research-offers-hope-of-artificial-retinas-prostheses/ Nanoparticle Research Offers Hope of Artificial Retinas, Prostheses]
** '''2006-10-09''' [http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/7800.html Teenager moves video icons just by imagination]: an epileptic 14-year-old boy with electrodes implanted inside his cranium to study the epilepsy volunteered for another experiment in which those same electrodes were used to carry signals enabling him to play "Space Invaders" without any physical movement
** '''2006-03-09''' [http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8826 'Mental typewriter' controlled by thought alone]: apparently somewhat like [[wikipedia:Dasher|Dasher]] and practical only if finger-typing is not an option
** '''2006-02-08''' [http://news.com.com/Chips+that+really+get+under+your+skin/2100-11395_3-6037112.html Chips that really get under your skin]
** '''2006-01-30''' [http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18925366.500 Missing a few brain cells? Print new ones]
** [http://www.eyetap.org/research/eyetap.html EyeTap Personal Imaging Lab]
* '''Energy''' ''(see also [[sustainability]])''
** '''2007-11-26''' [http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/11/26/super-powered-magnetic-wind-turbine-maglev/ THE MAGLEV: The Super-powered Magnetic Wind Turbine]: produces ~1 gigawatt
** [http://www.greencarcongress.com/ Green Car Congress]: "sustainable mobility"
** '''2007-05-05''' [http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=7168 Navy Heats Up Cold Fusion Hopes]: "New proof that cold fusion works could fuel additional interest in generating power from low energy nuclear reactions."
** '''2007-02-16''' [http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/18194/ Self-Assembling Batteries] "By measuring nanoscale forces, researchers learn to make lithium-ion batteries that pull themselves together."
** '''2007-01-22''' [http://www.technologyreview.com/Biztech/18086/page1/ Battery Breakthrough?] "A Texas company says it can make a new ultracapacitor power system to replace the electrochemical batteries in everything from cars to laptops."
** '''2005-10-18''' [http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/003669.html White Light, No Heat]: extremely efficient form of broad-spectrum lighting using quantum dots
* '''Fabrication'''
** [http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/candyfab CandyFab 4000]: low-cost, low-resolution fabrication using sugar
** [http://fab.cba.mit.edu/ MIT Fab Lab] ([http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/001141.html article])
** [http://reprap.org/ RepRap]: Replicating Rapid-prototyper, a practical self-copying 3D printer (in development)
** [http://rrrf.org/ RepRap Research Foundation]: "To promote research in self-replicating manufacturing systems and to distribute the results of that research freely to everybody using [[open-source]] licensing."
** '''2007-05-07''' [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/07/technology/07copy.html?_r=1&ref=technology&oref=slogin Beam It Down From the Web, Scotty]: "One company that wants to be the first to deliver a 3-D printer for consumers is [http://www.desktopfactory.com/ Desktop Factory], started by [http://www.idealab.com/ IdeaLab], a technology incubator here. The company will start selling its first printer for $4,995 this year."
* '''Genetics'''
** '''2015-03-30''' [http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/30/new-dna-tech-creating-unicorns-and-curing-cancer-for-real.html New DNA Tech: Creating Unicorns and Curing Cancer for Real?]
* '''Longevity'''
** '''2014-04-23''' [http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25458-blood-of-worlds-oldest-woman-hints-at-limits-of-life.html Blood of world's oldest woman hints at limits of life]
** '''2006-03-11''' [http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/03/060311090736.htm For The First Time: Longevity Modulated Without Disrupting Life-sustaining Function]
* '''Medicine'''
** '''2016-04-25''' [http://now.tufts.edu/articles/promise-growing-new-teeth The Promise of Growing New Teeth]
** '''2008-04-11''' [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/healthmain.html?in_article_id=558849&in_page_id=1774 New hope for Alzheimer's sufferers after new treatment 'restores memory in minutes']: see [[Institute for Neurological Research]]
** '''2007-02-21''' [http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn10971-cheap-safe-drug-kills-most-cancers.html Cheap, 'safe' drug kills most cancers]: latest information is at the [http://www.depmed.ualberta.ca/dca/ Official University of Alberta Dichloroacetate (DCA) Site]; there is also a [[wikipedia:dichloroacetic acid|dichloroacetic acid]] article at Wikipedia with some related information.
** '''2006-04-04''' [http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/04/060404084412.htm Wake Forest Physician Reports First Human Recipients Of Laboratory-grown Organs]
** '''2004-02-18''' [http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/02/040218080011.htm Researcher Uses Bioprinter To Print Three-Dimensional Cellular Structures]: possibility of growing fresh, genetically-compatible replacement organs
* [[Nanotechnology]]
* '''Nutrition'''
** [http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/003067.html Fighting Global Warming with Lab-Grown Meat]
* '''Physics'''
** '''2006-01-05''' [http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18925331.200 Hyperdrive?]
** '''Quantum Physics'''
*** '''2007-03-15''' [http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19325954.200 The universe is a string-net liquid]: possible progress towards a Unified Theory of Everything, or at least a new way of doing quantum computing
*** '''2006-02-23''' [http://www.newscientistspace.com/article.ns?id=dn8766 Is our universe about to be mangled?] (quantum reality? cosmology?)
*** '''2006-02-22''' [http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18925405.700 Quantum computer works best switched off]
* '''Poverty Reduction''' (for lack of a better term)
** [http://www.kiva.org/index.php Kiva]: micro-loan finder/seeker site
** cell phones in the Third World: [http://www.developments.org.uk/data/issue31/loose-talk.htm Loose Talk Saves Lives]
* '''Psychology'''
** '''2007-07-15''' [http://pressesc.com/01184528191_cure_for_fear MIT finds cure for fear]
* '''Reality Simulation'''
** [http://www.opencroquet.org/ (Open)Croquet]: collaborative [[P2P]] virtual reality
** [http://ping.com.au/ Ping]: Open-content Virtual Earth project
** [http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-01/uoc-pps012306.php Pleasing plant shapes explained by new computer model]
** '''2006-05-18''' [http://www.physorg.com/news67174218.html Searching for the soul in the machine]: simulation of social interaction & cultural development ([https://www.new-ties.org/ New-Ties project])
** '''2006-03-14''' [http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=16092 Scientists Model Entire Virus] ([http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?m=4262 Slashdot])
** '''2005-11-25''' [http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/11/051101223046.htm first computer simulation of a ribosome]
* '''{{faint|Robotics}}''': see Artificial Intelligence
* '''Self-Replication''': see Fabrication
* The '''Singularity'''
** Reference
*** {{wikipedia|Technological singularity}}
** Discussion
*** [http://sl4.org/ SL4] ("[http://sl4.org/shocklevels.html (future)shock level] four")
*** [http://www.kurzweilai.net/ Kurzweil AI]: Accelerating Intelligence
*** [http://www.singinst.org/ The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence]
*** [http://www.singularity.org/ Singularity.org]: links to several related sites
*** Vernor Vinge's [http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~phoenix/vinge/vinge-sing.html 1993 lecture] explaining the concept, and a [http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/vinge/misc/WER2.html 2003 update]
* '''Space Exploration'''
** [http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-01/esa-eaa011106.php ESA and ANU make space propulsion breakthrough]: much more efficient ion engine
* '''Time Travel'''
** '''2007-09-21''' [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/earth/2007/09/21/sciuni121.xml Parallel universe proof boosts time travel hopes]: "Parallel universes really do exist, according to a mathematical discovery by Oxford scientists that sweeps away one of the key objections to the mind boggling and controversial idea."
** '''2007-01-21''' [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/01/21/ING5LNJSBF1.DTL Science hopes to change events that have already occurred]: retrocausality using quantum physics
*** '''2007-02-16''' [http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/315/5814/966 Experimental Realization of Wheeler's Delayed-Choice Gedanken Experiment]: apparently the experiment succeeded... but where are the details?
* '''Transportation''' ''see also [[sustainability]]''
** '''2008-03-21''' [http://ecotality.com/life/2008/03/21/kite-assisted-cargo-ship-successfully-completes-maiden-voyage/ Kite-Assisted Cargo Ship Successfully Completes Maiden Voyage]