Difference between revisions of "technology"

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Overview

Links and information relating to technology, especially new technology (maybe eventually other areas).

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Related Pages

Links

Conferences

maybe this should go under futurism or transhumanism

2007-07-27 summary of talks at the 2007 World Transhumanist conference: "Would you give up your immortality to ensure the success of a posthuman world?"

Preservation

20th Century Technology Museum wiki

Progress

see /progress

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+==Overview==
+Links and information relating to [[technology]], especially new technology (maybe eventually other areas).{{seed}}
+==Related Pages==
+* '''sub-pages''':
+** [[/progress]]
+* '''topics''':
+** [[artificial intelligence]]
+** [[computing]]
+** [[nanotechnology]]
+** [[robotics]]
+** [[the singularity]]
+** [[time travel]]
+* '''related''':
+** [[technical writing]]
-Links and information relating to new [[Technology]]
 ==Links==
+===Conferences===
+''maybe this should go under [[futurism]] or [[transhumanism]]''
+* '''2007-07-27''' [http://www.reason.com/news/show/121638.html summary of talks at the 2007 World Transhumanist conference]: "Would you give up your immortality to ensure the success of a posthuman world?"
 ===Preservation===
 * [http://20thcenturytech.com/wiki/ 20th Century Technology Museum] wiki
 ===Progress===
-* '''Artificial Intelligence''' ''(see also The Singularity)''
+''see [[/progress]]''
-** 2006-02-06 [http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/story/0,10801,108320,00.html Software That Learns by Doing] (also has implications for the [[Issuepedia:Intelligent Design|Intelligent Design]] controversy)
-** 2006-01-14 [http://www.astrobio.net/news/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1834 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Robot]
-** 2006-01-12 [http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=5382048 St. Lawrence of Google]: Google is working on a massive global computing grid; wants to "build the machine that will pass the [[Wikipedia:Turing test|Turing test]]"
-** 2005-11-11 [http://www.betterhumans.com/News/4882/Default.aspx Firm to introduce robot lawyers]
-* '''Artificial Life'''
-*: ''see also '''Reality Simulation'''''
-** 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?]
-** [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]])''
-** '''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
-* '''Cybernetics'''
-** '''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 http://news.com.com/Chips+that+really+get+under+your+skin/2100-11395_3-6037112.html]
-** '''2006-01-30''' [http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18925366.500 Missing a few brain cells? Print new ones]
-** [[Speech assistive technology]]
-* '''Energy'''
-** [http://www.greencarcongress.com/ Green Car Congress]: "sustainable mobility"
-** 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://fab.cba.mit.edu/ MIT Fab Lab] ([http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/001141.html article])
-* '''Longevity'''
-** '''2006-03-11''' [http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/03/060311090736.htm For The First Time: Longevity Modulated Without Disrupting Life-sustaining Function]
-* '''Medicine'''
-** '''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]
-* '''Reality Simulation'''
-** [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]
-* '''The Singularity'''
-** Reference
-*** {{wikipedia|Technological singularity}}
-** Software
-*** [[Cyc]]
-** Discussion
-*** [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]
-** News
-*** [http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/11/051101223046.htm first computer simulation of a ribosome]
-* '''Physics'''
-** '''2006-01-05''' [http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18925331.200 Hyperdrive?]
-** '''Quantum Physics'''
-*** '''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]
-* '''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