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MIT professor Neil Gershenfeld talks about his Fab Lab -- a low-cost lab that lets people build things they need using digital and analog tools. It's a simple idea with powerful results:
Women who navigate around 3D computer-generated environments for a living - or even for fun - are having their style cramped by ultra-narrow computer displays and graphics software that favours men.
XML.com, by Drew McLellan Feb 09, 2005 "One of the classic drawbacks to building a web application interface is that once a page has been downloaded to the client, the connection to the server is severed."
The WIPO Online Forum is open to participation by all interested persons – you are invited to join in online discussions over a period of two weeks from June 1, 2005.
Department of Mathematical Sciences San Diego State University, Vernor Vinge - Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.
an online academic journal accepting publications on any subject. Philica takes a completely revolutionary approach to the publishing and reviewing of academic research. The instant, open-access Journal of Everything
Our society is organized around a scarcity economy to such an extent that many people believe 'scarcity' and 'economy' mean the same thing. Even if it were true, different economies deal with differently scarce things.
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"Last night I heard that Wesson oil doesn't soak through food. Well, that's true. It's not dishonest; but the thing I'm talking about is not just a matter of not being dishonest; it's a matter of scientific integrity, which is another level."
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