Via KurzweilAI.net, Fast Company has an encouraging article on five technologies that will transform the world.
[T]technology didn't stop evolving and maturing, no matter what the Nasdaq did. Imaginative researchers and engineers, by their nature, aren't very good at throttling back to a conservative idle.
So while shareholders nursed their battered portfolios and big companies chiseled away at their cost structures and employment rolls, these innovators kept working. They kept trying to develop technologies that would represent giant leaps forward, not just incremental baby steps.
The five technologies are:
Read the whole thing. It's exciting stuff.
Posted by Phil at September 30, 2003 06:29 AM | TrackBackthat 3-d printing stuff is very cool. we have several different versions of "rapid prototyping" systems here at virginia tech, and we had one at the air force institute of technology where i used to work. we never called them 3-d printers though. more info on "rp" in general is available here:
http://www.cc.utah.edu/~asn8200/rapid.html
and one of my colleagues, Jan Helge Bohn, has a page of info for his rp lab:
http://www-rp.me.vt.edu/bohn/rp/
as for that smart dressing room door, i can imagine some folks finding it a little too much like a peeping tom 8}
Posted by: chris hall at September 30, 2003 09:01 AMIn our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence
is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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