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Advanced Computing Cryonics Cybernetics & Bionics Energy & Transportation
Nanotechnology & Micromachines Pervasive Computing Robotics & Artificial Intelligence Space Virtual Reality
 
Advanced Computing.  Smaller, faster and more robust than anything around today - plus, the power of cooperative computing, by harnessing PCs like yours.
Advanced Computing Links
Distributed.net
Guide to DNA Computers (DNA-2-Z)


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Quantum Computing

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Computer Science

 
Cryonics & Life Extension.  Efforts are underway to make humans live longer - and there is a possibility of "freezing" the terminally ill so they can be awakened and cured when medicine is far advanced.
Cryonics Links
Alcor Life Extension Foundation

American Cryonics Society
Cryogenic Society of America

CryoNet
Cryonics Institute
NoDeath.org

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Cryonics

Open Directory Project Links:
Cryonics, Cryotech,
Cryosurgery, Cryobiology

 
Cybernetics & Bionics.  The interface between flesh and silicon is evolving quickly.
Cybernetics & Bionics Links
Department of Cybernetics (Univ. of Reading, UK)
Cyberonics, Inc.
Optobionics Corp.
onHand PC, the smallest consumer computer

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Real World Cyborgs,
Part I, Part II
Wearable Computers

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Cybernetics

 
Energy & Transportation.  New ways to move from place to place - and to power our lives more affordably.
Energy & Transportation Links
SoloTrek
Engineering System Co., Ltd.
Virtual Tour of Nuclear Power Plants

Open Directory Project:
Energy, Nuclear Energy

 
Nanotechnology & Micromachines.  Machines the size of molecules can revolutionize engineering and medicine.
Nanotechnology & Micromachines Links
Background (UTexas)
Center for Biologic Nanotechnology (U-M)
Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (Rice Univ.)
Foresight Institute
Institute for Molecular Manufacturing
Introduction to NanoProbe Technology
Nanomedicine (Robert A. Freitas Jr.)
Nanotech Database

Nanotech Magazine
Ralph Merkle (Nanotech Expert)
Xerox PARC: Nanotechnology
Zyvex

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Nanotechnology

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Nanotechnology

 
Pervasive Computing.  Everyone and everything connected, all the time, across an invisible, universal network.
Pervasive Computing Links
MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
 
Robotics & Artificial Intelligence.  "Dumb" robots are already common in  manufacturing; will intelligent ones ever be a reality?
Robotics & Artificial Intelligence Links
* Aibo, Sony's Robotic Dog
* Applied Chaos Lab
* Computer Vision Handbook (Harvey Mudd College)
* Cool Robot of the Week (NASA)
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Counter Intelligence (MIT Media Lab)
* Golem Project (Brandeis Univ.)
* PAPER: When Will Computer Hardware Match the Human Brain? (Journal of Transhumanism)

* Special: AI and A-Life (New Scientist)

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Artificial Intelligence, Robots & Robotics

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Artificial Intelligence, Robotics

 
Space.  The future of humanity beyond our own fragile planet.

Coming Soon: Space Tourism
(various sources through 16 Feb 01)
Will ordinary people be taking trips to space soon? One American millionaire is willing to pay the Russians $20 million to visit space in the first half of 2001.  A U.S. company will start offering high-altitude trips (not quite reaching Earth's orbit) within the next five years. And a Japanese venture hopes to have a space-touring service operational by 2016.

Space Links
European Space Agency
International Space Station
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA
Space and Tech
Space Daily
Space.com

Space Reference
Space Weather
Task Force on Near Earth Objects (UK)
Universe Today

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Space

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Astronomy, Space

 
Virtual Reality.  Cultivating illusions for comfort or learning.