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| {{seed}} | | ==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]] |
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| Links and information relating to new [[Technology]]
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| ==Links== | | ==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=== | | ===Preservation=== |
| * [http://20thcenturytech.com/wiki/ 20th Century Technology Museum] wiki | | * [http://20thcenturytech.com/wiki/ 20th Century Technology Museum] wiki |
| ===Progress=== | | ===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)
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| ** 2006-01-14 [http://www.astrobio.net/news/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1834 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Robot]
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| ** 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]]"
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| ** 2005-11-11 [http://www.betterhumans.com/News/4882/Default.aspx Firm to introduce robot lawyers]
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| * '''Artificial Life'''
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| *: ''see also '''Reality Simulation'''''
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| ** [http://www.alife.org/ International Society of Artificial Life]
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| * '''Computing''' ''(see also [[Computing]])''
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| ** '''2005-12-07''' [http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/12/051207180612.htm Breakthrough Chip Delivers Better Digital Pictures For Less Power]
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| ** [http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8158 Moving print adverts coming soon]: printable display technology
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| * '''Cybernetics'''
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| ** '''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]
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| ** '''2006-01-30''' [http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18925366.500 Missing a few brain cells? Print new ones]
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| * '''Energy'''
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| ** [http://www.greencarcongress.com/ Green Car Congress]: "sustainable mobility"
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| ** 2005-10-18 [http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/003669.html White Light, No Heat]: extremely efficient form of broad-spectrum lighting using quantum dots
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| * '''Fabrication'''
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| ** [http://fab.cba.mit.edu/ MIT Fab Lab] ([http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/001141.html article])
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| * '''Medicine'''
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| ** [http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/10/051029100150.htm Stem cells turned into organ precursors]: possibility of growing fresh, genetically-compatible replacement organs
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| * '''Nanotechnology'''
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| ** General Discussion / Planning
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| *** [http://www.crnano.org/ Center for Responsible Nanotechnology]
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| *** [http://foresight.org/ Foresight Institute]
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| *** [http://icon.rice.edu/ International Council on Nanotechnology]: includes "Environmental, Health and Safety Database"
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| *** [http://nanotechnology.com/ Nanotechnology.com]: industry news website; focus is nanomaterials, tends to be dismissive of nano-scale assembly / nano-factories (according to [http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/003685.html])
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| *** [http://nanotube.msu.edu/ The Nanotube Site]
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| *** [http://wise-nano.org/ Wise-Nano]: nanotech wiki
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| ** Materials - Buckminsterfullerene
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| *** [http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/003953.html The Carbon Age]
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| *** [http://www.fsu.edu/news/2005/10/20/steel.paper/ Buckypaper]
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| ** News
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| *** '''2006-01-27''' [http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-01/uow-f2b012706.php From 2-D blueprint, material assembles into novel 3-D nanostructures]: making self-assembling nanoscale 3D structures using photolithography
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| *** '''2005-12-05''' [http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/11/051130231645.htm Nanotech Discovery Could Have Radical Implications]
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| ** Techniques
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| *** [http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/003750.html Tackling the Central Dogma with an Optical Trap]: Stanford lab figures out how to watch protein molecules at work, opening large new area of investigation
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| * '''Nutrition'''
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| ** [http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/003067.html Fighting Global Warming with Lab-Grown Meat]
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| * '''Reality Simulation'''
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| ** [http://ping.com.au/ Ping]: Open-content Virtual Earth project
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| ** [http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-01/uoc-pps012306.php Pleasing plant shapes explained by new computer model]
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| * '''The Singularity'''
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| ** Reference
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| *** {{wikipedia|Technological singularity}}
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| ** Software
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| *** [[Cyc]]
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| ** Discussion
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| *** [http://www.kurzweilai.net/ Kurzweil AI]: Accelerating Intelligence
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| *** [http://www.singinst.org/ The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence]
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| *** [http://www.singularity.org/ Singularity.org]: links to several related sites
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| *** 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]
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| ** News
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| *** [http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/11/051101223046.htm first computer simulation of a ribosome]
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| * '''Physics'''
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| ** '''2006-01-05''' [http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18925331.200 Hyperdrive?]
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| * '''Poverty Reduction''' (for lack of a better term)
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| ** [http://www.kiva.org/index.php Kiva]: micro-loan finder/seeker site
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| ** cell phones in the Third World: [http://www.developments.org.uk/data/issue31/loose-talk.htm Loose Talk Saves Lives]
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| * '''Space Exploration'''
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| ** [http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-01/esa-eaa011106.php ESA and ANU make space propulsion breakthrough]: much more efficient ion engine
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