Down the Tubes Links: Technology or Treknology?

Most of these science-based sites were discovered during trawling for news for the Star Trek Magazine Treknology column. (William Shatner's book I'm Working on That (written with Chip Walter) also features a useful guide to Star Trek-related technologies).

• The EE Times (UK Edition)
Regarded as the electronics industry newspaper of record, breaking the stories that describe the technical implications and trade-offs with thoughtful analysis and compelling opinion. For more than 160,000 design and development engineers and technical managers, EE Times is a “must read” each week.

• Extropy Institute
Great resource base for all technology resourses on the web

• The Impact Lab
The Impact Lab at the DaVinci Institute is nothing less than a relentless pursuit of the critical components that will make up the world to come. They're all about uncovering cutting edge, breakthrough, and emerging technologies and the forces impacting them. And they throw is some odd stuff just for fun.

• New Scientist (registration required)
Excellent news source

• Physics Today
The journal of the American Institute of Physics

• Popular Science

138 years of Popular Science magazine archived here. (Check out the gallery on "inventions that time forgot")

• Scientific American

• Slashdot.org
news for ners, news that matters

• Technology Research News
Technology Research News (TRN) is an independent publisher and news service dedicated to covering technology research developments in university, corporate and government labs. Every story published by TRN is the result of direct, original reporting.

• Australian News Online
A compilattion of sceince news via the Australian National University

• The Foresight Insitute
Preparing for nanotechnology, which has the potental to kill capitalism overnight - and all of us, if something goes wrong... there's an excellent primer on nanotech here

• The MIT Media Laboratory
News Office: Go Press releases: Go

• Parc Xerox
The Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), a subsidiary of Xerox Corporation, conducts pioneering interdisciplinary research in physical, computational, and social sciences.

• K. Eric Drexler
Dr. Drexler is a researcher concerned with emerging technologies and their consequences for the future. In the mid 1980s, he introduced the term 'nanotechnology' to describe atomically precise molecular manufacturing systems and their products. Advanced nanotechnologies will make possible many dreams (and nightmares) first articulated in the literature of science fiction.

• Stephen Hawking

• Ralph Merkle
Nanotech, cryptography, life extension and more. For his readable intorduction to nanotech go here to his article on Spectrum Online: "Nanotechnology: What Will It Mean?"

• Kip Thorne
Wornholes, time travel and other strangeness. Biography here. See also

• Wearable Group
Wearable technologies. Today, wearable computing is being recognized as an interesting research and product area by a number of commercial entities, small and large. This has not always been the case, however, and as such, academic researchers have needed to "roll their own" hardware in order to obtain experimental results. Wearable hardware development at Carnegie Mellon has taken place at a number of points in the design spectrum, from "customer"-driven systems integration based on a task specification, to fully-exploratory systems designed in-house from a clean slate.

• The Human Genome Program
The U.S. Human Genome Project (HGP), composed of the DOE and NIH Human Genome Programs, is the national coordinated effort to characterize all human genetic material by determining the complete sequence of the DNA in the human genome. Media Guide

Nanotechnology
• nanodot
News and discussion of coming technologies

• Nanotech News

• The Nanotube Site

• Nanotechnology in SF

• Merkle: How to build nanotech to build smaller nanotech

Radiation
• A brief history of radiation and protection
Cheery stuff about the dangers of messing with glowing stuff. Found this while looking up something for Farscape magazine, believe it or not.

Robots
US: The National Robotics Engineering Consortium
Develops and applies advanced automation technologies to create new opportunities for American businesses.

US: The Robotics Institute
The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University was established in 1979 to conduct basic and applied research in robotics technologies relevant to industrial and societal tasks. Seeking to combine the practical and the theoretical, the Robotics Institute has diversified its efforts and approaches to robotics science while retaining its original goal of realizing the potential of the robotics field. • News Page

US: Medical Robotics and Information Technology (MERIT) Interdisciplinary Center
Focuses on creating new robotic technologies to benefit the healthcare industry, such as computer-based tools to assist surgeons in minimizing invasive medical procedures and improving patient outcomes. • News Page • Links

• KurzweilAI.Net
KurzweilAI.net features the big thoughts of today's big thinkers examining the confluence of accelerating revolutions that are shaping our future world, and the inside story on new technological and social realities from the pioneers actively working in these arenas.

Spaceflight

Teleportation
• The Australian National University

• American Institue of Physics: Quantum Teleportation

Time Travel
• Kip Thorne: Spacetime Warps and the Quantum: A Glimpse of the Future
Online lecture