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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?"

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20th Century Technology Museum wiki

Progress

see /progress

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 Links and information relating to [[technology]], especially new technology (maybe eventually other areas).{{seed}}
 ==Related Pages==
-* [[technical writing]]
+* '''sub-pages''':
+** [[/progress]]
+* '''topics''':
+** [[artificial intelligence]]
+** [[computing]]
+** [[nanotechnology]]
+** [[robotics]]
+** [[the singularity]]
+** [[time travel]]
+* '''related''':
+** [[technical writing]]
 ==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]]''
-** '''2006-09-14''': [http://www.wired.com/news/technology/software/0,71779-0.html Experimental AI Powers Robot Army] and more
-** found 2006-05-15: [http://mind.sourceforge.net/aisteps.html Artificial Intelligence Algorithms For Top-Down AI] at SourceForge
-** 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]
-** Software
-*** [[Cyc]]
-* '''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]])''
-** '''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'''
-** '''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 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"
-** '''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://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'''
-** '''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'''
-*** '''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]
-* '''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]
-* '''Self-Replication'''
-** [http://reprap.org/ RepRap]: Replicating Rapid-prototyper, a practical self-copying 3D printer (in development)
-* 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'''
-** '''2007-01-21''' [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?