General Resources

• The Strategy of Technology, by Possony, Pournelle, and Kane - full text of classic book from 1970, with some updates and comments - many good sections still pertinent and thought provoking - if nothing else, at least view the table of contents for ideas
• How Stuff Works, technology explained so even I can understand

• The National Academies - science, engineering, medicine, & National Research Council

Sci-Tech Publications & Online News

• See also publications on Future Studies page

• MIT Technology Review, includes free e-mail tech newsletter
• TechNewsWorld
• Discover, monthly, science and tech
• Scientific American, monthly
  • Technology and Innovation, Scientific American
• Science, "global weekly of research" -- fee for full text
• Nature, weekly, science
• Jane's

• Science News online, weekly journal that condenses developments in to a couple of understandable paragraphs, covers medicine and just about all areas of science
• Issues in Education and Technology, online, publication of the National Academy of Sciences and others
• Harvard Science Review
• Bell Labs Innovations
• ScienceNOW
• Yahoo list of science magazines
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, on security, military, and nuclear
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory Review
• News Report Online, on activities of National Academy of Sciences
• Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Research Review
• Science Daily, "your link to the latest research news"
• EurekAlert, science news releases
• UniSci, "daily university science news"
• MSNBC Technology News

• Cornell Science & Technology Magazine, quarterly, science and engineering
• BBC Science and Technology News
• National Science & Technology Week, by National Science Foundation
• Science & Technology Review, formerly Energy & Technology Review, about research at Lawrence Livermore National Lab

• TechWeb, news portal for info tech
• CNN Technology

Computer Publications

• See also publications on Future Studies page

• ZD Net, news, reviews, etc.
• CNET.com, like a Yahoo site dedicated to computers and technology

• Chips, U.S. Navy's information technology magazine
• Federal Computer Week, government tech news
• Government Computer News, from federal to local

• Military Information Technology Online

• PC Magazine online
• PC World online

• SiliconValley.com, "inside the tech economy"
• TechWeb, news portal for info tech
• The Chronicle of Higher Education
  • The Chronicle of Higher Education, Information Technology
  • The Chronicle of Higher Education, Distance Education

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• MacCentral, incorporating MacWeek.com, about Macintosh
• MacWorld Online, about Macintosh
• MacUser, about Macintosh

DoD Resources

• See also Labs & Research page

• See also DoD/Gov. Studies Online

• DoD-Joint
• Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Science and Technology)
  • Science and Technology Planning
  • Science and Technology Planning Documents
  • Planning documents include
    • Defense Science and Technology Strategy Basic Research Plan (BPR)
    • Defense Technology Area Plan (DTAP)
    • Joint Warfighting Science and Technology Plan (JWSTP)
    • Defense Technology Objectives of the Joint Warfighting Science and Technology Plan (JWSTP) and the Defense Technology Area Plan (DTAP)

• Military Critical Technologies (MCT) home page
  • Weapons Systems Technologies (WST)
  • Developing Critical Technologies (DCT)

• Army
• U.S. Army Research Office (ARO)
• Army Research Laboratory Adelphi, MD
• Strategic Horizons: The Military Implications of Alternative Futures, by Metz, for SSI

• Navy
• Office of Naval Research (ONR)
• Naval Research Laboratory Washington, DC
• Chips, U.S. Navy's information technology magazine

• Air Force
• Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
  • AFRL Information Directorate
  • AFRL Information Institute, "a virtual, collaborative research environment concentrating on information science and technology"
• Air Force Experimentation Office
• Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
• Air Force Scientific Advisory Board - check the archive of reports and studies

U.S. Government Resources

• See also DoD/Gov. Studies Online

• Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)

• National Science and Technology Council (NSTC)

• The Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) Legacy, Princeton copy of archives of the 1974-1995 publications of OTA, which closed in '95
• Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) CD-ROM set, with all its publications, indexed, from the Gov. Printing Off.

International Resources

• Scientific and Technological Options Assessment (STOA), European Parliament, Directorate-General for Research

Sci-Tech History

• The Strategy of Technology, by Possony, Pournelle, and Kane - full text of classic book from 1970, with some updates and comments - many good sections still pertinent and thought provoking - if nothing else, at least view the table of contents for ideas
• Invention & Technology, past and present, some articles only available in hard copy
• History of Science, Technology & Medicine, ECHO (exploring & collecting history online)

• See also Past Futures
• See also 12,000 Year Timeline

Internet, Computers, and Society

• MIT Media Lab

• Berkman Center for Internet & Society, at Harvard Law School
  • The Filter, newsletter published by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society
• Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) "Protecting Rights and Promoting Freedom in the Electronic Frontier"
• Sherry Turkle, Professor of Sociology of Science, MIT, home page with links to syllabi and publications about impact of computers on individuals and society
• Sherry Turkle: Surface, Surface Everywhere -- a review of Professor Turkle's views as an example of postmodernist philosophy
• The Ada Project, Mills College, "is a clearinghouse for information and resources related to women in computing"

• WWW Virtual Library

Getting Smart and Robots

• Machine Intelligence
• WWW Virtual Library - Artificial Intelligence Resources
• Intelligent Micromachine Initiative, Sandia National Lab
• KurzweilAI.net, leading technologists and futurists, "KurzweilAI.Net focuses on the exponential growth of intelligence, both biological and machine, and the merger of the two in a post-humanist future. This site paints a picture of the future where nanobots float through our bodies, healing sickness and augmenting our senses and cognitive abilities, and where you can be anyone you want to be in virtual reality."
• Open Mind Initiative is a "world-wide collaborative effort to develop 'intelligent' software"
• Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence
• Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research

• Robotics
• Robot Science & Technology
• The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

Getting Small

• MIT NanoMechanical Technology Laboratory
• MIT Nanostructures Laboratory (NSL)

• Intelligent Micromachine Initiative, Sandia National Lab -- lots of links in the nano field
• Nanotechnology Team, NASA
• Match Head Sized Web-Server, with potential for addding computer connection almost anywhere
• DNA motors, from Lucent, use DNA combinations to make motors
• Carbon nanotube springs and bearings, from UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, one thousandth the friction of best existing bearings and springs -- other projects also listed
• Nano robot arm, able to work in a blood environment, from Linköping University -- other projects also listed
• Carbon nanotube balance can weigh individual viruses and bacteria, from Georgia Tech
• Nanotechnology and fabrication research, at Harvard -- includes projects such as tweezers only 20 nm in diameter for moving (really) small things
• Molecular level transformations and fabrication, from Feringa group, at the University of Groningen -- including projects such as a molecular motor using ultraviolet light to cause rotary motion

• Materials and Process Simulation Center (MSC) at the California Institute of Technology
• The nanoManipulator Project (UNC Chapel Hill)
• Molecular Structure Laboratory SUNY Stony Brook

Getting Smell and Other Senses and Biotech

• Scientific American, Sep 1999, Presents "Your Bionic Future"
• National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), by National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health
• Robot Science & Technology
• Visible Human Project, from National Library of Medicine, using 3-D images obtained by combining pictures of one mm and smaller slices of male and female cadavers

Getting Ubiquitous and Wearable Computers

• Wearable Computers site, by Ga. Tech., with links to conferences, papers, etc.
  • Principles of Educational Multimedia User Interface Design, by Najjar, Georgia Tech Research Institute
• Anthony's list of Internet Accessible Machines
• Ubiquitous Computing, from Mark Weiser, about future of "one person, many computers"
• Yahoo's Interesting Devices Connected to the Net

Combining Computers

• SETI@home, search for extraterrestrial intelligence, using millions of computers through a screensaver which analyzes astronomical data
• Nug30 solved using parallel computers

Is Stealth Dead?

• China can 'see' US stealth aircraft -- 11/30/99 London Times article about Chinese use of PCL technology which can detect U.S. stealth aircraft

• Design and Optimization of Passive and Active Imaging Radar, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Lockheed Martin "Silent Sentry" system, similar to Chinese
  • PCL system able to detect 600 km away, tested using shuttle
  • May 1998, by accident Lockheed-Martin discovers the PCL system can detect meteorites as small as grain of sand

Miscellaneous

• plasma (instead of solid) antenna, not detectable by radar, New Scientist, 11/27/99
• Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST), expanding opportunities for all learners
• Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (parc), creators of many of the desktop aspects common today
• Symantec AntiVirus Research Center
• the Technology Education Lab
• WWW Virtual Library on Knowledge Management
• Knowledge Management & Organizational Learning, including many articles
• Knowledge Management Think Tank
• Role of Information Technology in Managing Organizational Change and Organizational Interdependence, by Malhotra
• Atlas of Cyberspaces
• Scientific and Technological Options Assessment (STOA), European Parliament, Directorate-General for Research
• Chaos Theory For The Practical Military Mind, ACSC paper dealing with use of chaos theory in military
• International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS)

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