INTRODUCTION
BT PLC's Futurologist
1 ENERGY
Distributed Power Coalition of America
Capstone Microturbines
West Bioenergy
The Maine Solar House
Journal of Home-Made Power
2 NATIONALISM
United Nations Homepage
3 MANAGEMENT
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4 NANOTECHNOLOGY
Video Link: Gerd Binnig, Director of Research, IBM
(Needs G2 Player)
Brad Hein's Nanotechnology Site
Mitre Corp.'s nanotechnology program
Eric Drexler's Foresight Institute
NASA picture gallery of nanotech devices
New York University's nanobot (made from DNA)
Nanotechnology and Molecular Machines
Nanotechnology Magazine
Gallery of Molecular Machines
Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology Database
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5 TIME
Online Q&A: One Man Opts for Slowing Down Instead of Speeding Up
Rheingold's Brainstorms
Universal Time
Universal Time Conversion Table
6 RELIGION
The Religious Movements Homepage
Facets of Religion
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7 HUMANITY
BT Labs' Homepage
CMU's Synthetic Interviews technology
The Next Few Steps (Document Download)
When I'm 64 (Document Download)
BT Labs' Views of the Future
Wired Magazine: Peter Cochrane Will Microprocess Your Soul?
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8 ENVIRONMENT
Online Q&A: A Conservationist Exposes the Danger to Wildlife from Hunting
Wildlife Conservation Society
Facts about the Rain Forest
ABC News: Stealing Nature
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9 COMMUNICATIONS
Online Q&A: Music Will Become a Service, Not a Product
Joshua McFadden's personal home page
Oberlin College's Technology in Music and Related Arts Program
Electronic Frontier Foundation Home Page
Shoutcast.com
mp3Now.com
mp3.com
EMusic.com
Recording Industry Association of America
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10 POPULATIONS
The President's New Sprawl Initiative: A Program In Search of a Problem
Urban Sprawl
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11 BIOLOGY
Online Original: Life on Mars? The Answer May Be in Antarctica
Clues from Vostok to Europa
Lake Discovered Under Antarctic Ice
Key to Past Climate in Arctic Ice
Evidence of Life on Mars
Life from Mars: Photos
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12 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Online Q&A: Half-Man, Half-Machine: The Mind of the Future
Video Link: Gerd Binnig, Director of Research, IBM
(Needs G2 Player)
Time is on the Cyborgs' side
The
Next Phase of Evolution
Advanced Telecom Research Institute (ATR)
ATR's Brain Builder group
Swiss Federal Research Institute's Logic Systems Lab
University of Sussex evolutionary hardware and adaptive systems
Nick Bostrom, Philosophy Dept., London School of Economics
Hans Moravec's "Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind"
Symposium on Roger Penrose's "Shadows of the Mind"
CMU Artificial Intelligence Repository
Contemporary Philosophy of Mind Bibliography
MIT's AI Lab
University of Edinburgh's AI applications group
American Association for Artificial Intelligence
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13 HEALTH
Chemoprevention -- The Answer to Cancer?
Questions and Answers about Tamoxifen
Raloxifene for Osteoporotic Women
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14 INTERNET
Online Q&A: An Internet Pioneer Moves toward Nomadic Computing
Video Link: Cherry Murray, Head of Physical Research Lab, Bell Labs
(Needs G2 Player)
Sante Fe Institute
Dr. Leonard Kleinrock's web page
Dr. Leonard Kleinrock's personal history of the internet
30th Anniversary, birth of the internet at UCLA
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15 MONEY
Online Q&A: An Economist's Plan for Minimizing Risk
Robert J. Shiller Home Page
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16 DEMOGRAPHICS
Online Q&A: Birth Rates Are Down, but the Population is Growing
United Nations Population Information Network
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17 POLITICS
Online Q&A: Technology Has Energized and Engaged Voters as Never Before
"Web White and Blue: Political Forum"
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18 EDUCATION
Online Q&A: Does High School Serve Today's Advanced Adolescents?
Video Link: Nathan Myrhvold, Chief Technical Officer, Microsoft
(Needs G2 Player)
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19 GENES
Online Q&A: A "Knocked-Out Mouse May Hold the Key to Better Pharmacology
Human Genome Project Information
To Know Ourselves: The Genome Project
The Human Genome Project: Links to related sites
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20 LIFESTYLE
Tax free city at sea
21 QUANTUM COMPUTERS
Online Q&A: Relying on Mother Nature to Make a Quantum Computer
Quantum Computing Information
NMR Quantum Computing Home Page
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SCI-FI GUIDE
BOOK CHAPTER: The Sparrow
By Mary Doria Russell
BOOK CHAPTER: The Diamond Age
By Neal Stephenson
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