technology

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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

  • 2006-02-17 Web program simplifies artificial gene design
  • 2006 Is This Life?
  • 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 Breakthrough Chip Delivers Better Digital Pictures For Less Power
  • Moving print adverts coming soon: printable display technology
• Cybernetics
  • 2006-03-09 'Mental typewriter' controlled by thought alone: apparently somewhat like 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
  • 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)
• Longevity
  • 2006-03-11 For The First Time: Longevity Modulated Without Disrupting Life-sustaining Function
• Medicine
  • Stem cells turned into organ precursors: possibility of growing fresh, genetically-compatible replacement organs
• Nanotechnology
• Nutrition
  • Fighting Global Warming with Lab-Grown Meat
• Reality Simulation
  • Ping: Open-content Virtual Earth project
  • Pleasing plant shapes explained by new computer model
• The Singularity
  • Reference
    • Wikipedia
  • 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?
  • Quantum Physics
    • 2006-02-23 Is our universe about to be mangled? (quantum reality? cosmology?)
    • 2006-02-22 Quantum computer works best switched off
• 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