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Links and information relating to new Technology

Links

Preservation

• 20th Century Technology Museum wiki

Progress

• Artificial Intelligence (see also The Singularity)
  • 2006-02-06 Software That Learns by Doing (also has implications for the Intelligent Design controversy)
  • 2006-01-14 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Robot
  • 2006-01-12 St. Lawrence of Google: Google is working on a massive global computing grid; wants to "build the machine that will pass the Turing test"
  • 2005-11-11 Firm to introduce robot lawyers
• Artificial Life

  see also Reality Simulation

  • International Society of Artificial Life
• Computing (see also Computing)
  • 2005-12-07 Breakthrough Chip Delivers Better Digital Pictures For Less Power
  • Moving print adverts coming soon: printable display technology
• Cybernetics
  • 2006-01-30 Missing a few brain cells? Print new ones
• Energy
  • Green Car Congress: "sustainable mobility"
  • 2005-10-18 White Light, No Heat: extremely efficient form of broad-spectrum lighting using quantum dots
• Fabrication
  • MIT Fab Lab (article)
• Medicine
  • Stem cells turned into organ precursors: possibility of growing fresh, genetically-compatible replacement organs
• Nanotechnology
  • General Discussion / Planning
    • Center for Responsible Nanotechnology
    • Foresight Institute
    • International Council on Nanotechnology: includes "Environmental, Health and Safety Database"
    • Nanotechnology.com: industry news website; focus is nanomaterials, tends to be dismissive of nano-scale assembly / nano-factories (according to [1])
    • The Nanotube Site
    • Wise-Nano: nanotech wiki
  • Materials - Buckminsterfullerene
    • Buckypaper
  • News
    • 2005-12-05 Nanotech Discovery Could Have Radical Implications
  • Techniques
    • 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
• Nutrition
  • Fighting Global Warming with Lab-Grown Meat
• Reality Simulation
  • Pleasing plant shapes explained by new computer model
• The Singularity
  • Reference
    • Wikipedia (Technological singularity)
  • Software
    • Cyc
  • Discussion
    • Kurzweil AI: Accelerating Intelligence
    • The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
    • Singularity.org: links to several related sites
    • Vernor Vinge's 1993 lecture explaining the concept, and a 2003 update
  • News
    • first computer simulation of a ribosome
• Physics
  • 2006-01-05 Hyperdrive?
• Poverty Reduction (for lack of a better term)
  • Kiva: micro-loan finder/seeker site
  • cell phones in the Third World: Loose Talk Saves Lives
• Space Exploration
  • ESA and ANU make space propulsion breakthrough: much more efficient ion engine