I haven't lived chronologically. No one does. Each moment
reaches backward and forward to all other moments. The interweaving of elements
from my life's work -- out of chronology, as echoes and forshadowings -- is
true, I think, to the inner shape of any life.
-- Richard Avedon, Autobiography
general context
The Evernet -- always on everywhere
Frameworks -- architecture and
plumbing, commercial frameworks, and especially peer-to-peer
background concepts
diffusion of innovation
disruptive technologies
interfaces
algorithms
numeracy
what to do with the future
It's not so risky if you create the future yourself.
new venture creation / start-ups
The Frontiers of Technology
Enabling Technologies
I do not want to deal with the computer directly any more than I
want to deal with the motors and furnaces and plumbing in my house, let alone
the structural architecture. Yes, there's a time and place for all those things,
for instance, when they break, which is rarely. What I want from them is what
they enable me to do: live and work.
What will the Internet and powerful computers at the ends enable
us to do?
immersive environments
immersive environments -- when we
feel as though we're inside the computer network
teleimmersion, immersive environments,
virtual reality - crime scenes, reunions (Tim)
teleimmersion, immersive environments, virtual reality
- educational settings
(Tera)
teleimmersion, immersive environments, virtual reality
(Kevina)
teleimmersion, immersive environments, virtual reality
- education, training, fund-raising, marketing (Colleen)
RFID
nanotechnology
nanotechnology -- very small
nanobots (Amr)
nano + stem cell; nano + neurosurgery (Gary)
gizmos
invisible computer -- when the
computer network is inside us and our things, especially gadgets
and gizmos
smart things - Ripley robot (Sean)
smart things - clothing and materials for fitness
and performance (Jon)
smart things - telematics in land-based vehicles
(Anne)
smart things - flying vehicles (Tara)
robotics --
bioinformatics
bioinformatics -- in Western
New York's future?
biometrics - (Taheerh)
biometrics (Lemar)
others
optical software (Hugo)
HD projection - haptic interfaces (Keith)
Artificial Intelligence (Katherine)
The Future of Corporate Presentations -
3-dimensional, virtual, and holographic (Rick)
Why The
Future Doesn't Need Us
by Bill Joy
Wired, August 2000
Our most powerful 21st-century technologies - robotics,
genetic engineering, and nanotech - are threatening to make humans an endangered
species.
Specific information from these resources is distributed
throughout this section of Ricci Street's Port 80 neighborhood.
Web publications
M.I.T.'s Tech
Review
New Scientist's Emerging Technologies
SuperComputing
Online -- The Leading News Source for High Performance Computing, Networking
& Communications Professionals
First Monday
First Monday publishes original articles about the Internet
and the Global Information Infrastructure. First Monday has:
> followed the political and regulatory regimes affecting the Internet
> examined the use of the Internet, by analyzing economic, technical, and
social factors
> reviewed research and development of Internet software and hardware
> studied the use of Internet in specific communities
> reported on standards
> discussed the content of the Internet
The Edge
Edge -- a bi-monthly Web
publication -- 95 issues so far between December 1996 and December 2001 --
"where thinking smart prevails over the anesthesiology of
wisdom"
To arrive at the edge of the world's knowledge, seek out the
most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together, and have them
ask each other the questions they are asking themselves.
The Reality Club
Today's sharpest minds taking their ideas into the bull ring knowing they will
be challenged. The ethic is thinking smart vs. the anesthesiology of wisdom.
The Third Culture
Those scientists and other thinkers in the empirical world who, through their
work and expository writing, are taking the place of the traditional
intellectual in rendering visible the deeper meanings of our lives, redefining
who and what we are.
The Digerati
A living document for rigorous discussion concerning crucial issues of the
digital age in a highly-charged atmosphere.
The doers, thinkers, and writers who have tremendous influence on the emerging
communication revolution. They are not on the frontier, they are the frontier.
The digerati evangelize, connect people, adapt quickly.
an example of an idea on the Edge:
The
Second Coming — A Manifesto
by David Gelernter
Edge 70, June 15, 2000
Everything is up for grabs. Everything will change. There is
a magnificent sweep of intellectual landscape right in front of us. ...
If you have plenty of money, the best consequence (so they say) is that you no
longer need to think about money. In the future we will have plenty of
technology — and the best consequence will be that we will no longer have to
think about technology.
We will return with gratitude and relief to the topics that actually count.
Don't miss the Reality Club's responses, which take up the lower
three-quarters of that page.
geeky sites
SlashDot
SourceForge
FreshMeat
LinuxApps
ThinkGeek
iBiblio.org
Academic
Internet2 | Internet2
Applications
MIT's Media Lab | list
of research projects
MIT's Wearable
Computing project
Media Lab Asia -
"innovating for the next five billion"
One Laptop per Child
- $100 computer for the Third World
Attack of
the Two-Headed Scientists
by Charles Mandel
Wired, June 11, 2003
Trees that grow in the shape of tables and self-transforming
machines sound like things Disney might dream up, but these ideas are anything
but Mickey Mouse. Rather, they are the future according to Rodney Brooks, who
currently is overseeing one of the largest and most significant laboratory
mergers in recent years. ...
The AI Lab has pioneered new methods for image-guided surgery, wired the White
House, developed bacterial robots and created behavior-based robots that are now
used for planetary exploration, military reconnaissance and in-home consumer
gadgets. ...
Magnanti's not kidding about germinating and cultivating. Some of the research
underway at NLCSAI involves working with genomes "so that we can get digital
control over what's happening inside living cells,'' Brooks said.
According to Brooks, the goal is to gain "exquisite control" over living cells,
so scientists can encourage them to produce specific drugs or even grow things
that are normally manufactured.
"So imagine -- this is a long way off -- 50 years from now, instead of growing a
tree, cutting it down and building a table,'' Brooks said, "you just grow a
table, digitally instruct the organism how to grow." ...
In the area of medicine, the new lab will examine how to rid operating rooms of
equipment and cables. Brooks envisions generic wireless devices that will
transform themselves through software into specialized tools. He also wants to
tackle "the incredible problem" of medical databases and records and find a way
to eliminate all the paper.
Carnegie Mellon University's Project Aura: Distraction-free
Ubiquitous Computing -- check out the huge (85 MB) but fascinating video
Petros Faloutsos's Computer Graphics and
Animation Research -- demos
U Colorado, Boulder's Adaptive House
Georgia Tech's Future Computing Environments
University of Art and Design Helsinki Media Lab's Fle3 > Future Learning Environment
Boston University's Photonics
Center
MIT's Joannopoulos
Research Group
As a part of the condensed matter theory division, we are
actively researching a variety of complex systems from an ab initio
standpoint. Most of our investigations fall into the broad categories of
photonic crystals and optics (photons) or atomic systems and electronic
structure (atoms).
SRI International's Digital Earth
A connected suite of technologies with the vision of
enabling a massive, scalable, and open model of the planet where millions of
users can interact with vast quantities of geographically referenced (georeferenced)
data over the Web.
Our goal is to create an open infrastructure that allows anyone around the globe
to publish or to search for data based upon a specific location; something which
is not possible on the Web today.
University of Illinois at Chicago's Electronic Visualization Laboratory
(EVL) list of
research projects
Virtual reality and real-time
interactive computer graphics. A joint effort of UIC's College of Engineering
and School of Art and Design, EVL represents the oldest formal collaboration
between engineering and art, offering graduate degrees in electronic
visualization (MFA, MS, PhD).
Open Channel
Foundation
how to make it all work: standards
US Commerce Depoartment National Institute of
Standards & Technology's Smart Space
Lab
Smart Spaces are work environments with embedded computers,
information appliances, and multi-modal sensors allowing people to perform tasks
efficiently by offering unprecedented levels of access to information and
assistance from computers.
The NIST mission is to address the measurement, standards and interoperability
challenges that must be met as tools for this future evolve in industrial
Research and Development laboratories world wide.
Corporate
Intel's
Research
and Development -- "accelerating the convergence of computing and
communications" -- such as
The Ease of Use Initiative.
Ease of Use (EoU) has consistently been cited by end-users
as one of the top three barriers to PC ownership for the past 15 years,
competing with cost and perceived lack of need for the top spot. Intel's Ease of
Use Initiative is tasked with eliminating this barrier.
Big
Blue's Big Brother Lab
by Elisa Batista
Wired News, April 24, 2001
Imagine knowing the name of every single person who lived in
this world. One of IBM's lab scientists shows how existing technology could make
this scenario possible. ...
The scientists at the lab live what they create. The company has a
chalkboard-sized screen, called the BlueBoard, which is an electronic communal
bulletin board that gives everyone whose personal information is in a database
access to their desktop computer applications by simply looking at the screen.
The screen, if you haven't guessed already, has gaze-tracking technology.
IBM Research
Our worldwide research labs work in all areas of information
technology, from physics and cognitive science to leading-edge application
research. We invent innovative materials and structures and use them to create
exciting machine designs and architectures. We create tools and technologies
that will enable the continued evolution of computing and computing services
over the network. Our work across many disciplines is often done in concert with
our colleagues in academic and government research centers, as well as "in the
marketplace" with customers who provide us with challenging research problems.
IBM's
Pervasive Computing Division
IBM's Natural Interactivity -- DreamSpace
Accenture Technology Labs'
Research and Development |
RFID Technology Showcase: Short Video Clips of Technology Prototypes and
Solutions
Microsoft's current
research | Easy
Living
Fuji-Xerox's Palo Alto Laboratory (FXPAL)
Research Areas
Philips Electronics'
Research A- Z
Hewlett Packard
Research
Learn More
T H E T W E N E Y R
E P O R T
Information Wants To Be Public
by Dylan Tweney
May 2, 2001
The Internet is, at bottom, a collection of networks
designed to facilitate the easy moving of data from place to place. Moving data
online means, of course, copying it. ... And the Internet is nothing if not a
gigantic copy machine.
As a result, private information, once digitized, is easily "turned
loose" onto the public Internet. That's the origin of the term
"Information wants to be free." ... This slogan doesn't mean,
necessarily, "I want information to be free of charge" (although many
have used it that way). Rather, it means that information -- of itself -- has a
tendency to break out of whatever constraints are holding it.
Fate of the First Amendment on the Internet
Freedom of
Speech
by Clay Shirky
Feed Daily, February 11, 2000
Find the Cost
of Freedom
by Dana Blankenhorn
ClickZ, February 15, 2000
New Ideas
What do you do with new ideas?
Ideas.com
IdeaDollar.com
NewIdea.com
IdeaExchange.com
yet2.com
the first global forum for buying and selling technology on
the Internet. A virtual technology marketplace, yet2.com offers companies and
individuals the unprecedented opportunity to conveniently and privately
purchase, sell, license and research some of the world´s most valuable
intellectual assets.
Special
Delivery
by Kathy Sena
Buffalo News, May 8, 2001
"So we decided to create a Web site http://www.specialkidsla.com/ that
would become a resource for parents," says Levy. "We wanted to be the
focal point for special-ed information." ...
Meanwhile, the Levys say, they are seeking grants to support their nonprofit
site corporation; they have made specialkidsla.com their full-time jobs.
And while the income might not be flowing as it once did, the family is feeling
quite rich in many ways, says Levy.
Babyproof your
home
Buffalo News, May 8, 2001
The Web site http://www.babyproof.com/
contains a surprising amount of information about babyproofing your home. There
are sections on handling hazards in every room, from the kitchen and bath to the
bedroom and playroom.
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Computer-Related
Invention Guidelines
Searching
the Patent Office's full-text database -- images, too
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