"Japan’s love of robots lies in the history of the ‘Karakuri Ningyo’. Until now there has been little interest from outside Japan regarding the Karakuri Ningyo craft, and its influence on technology and the arts."

travel in the nano world // is it me or it's using a couple of sounds from videogames ? I keep hearing sounds from HL1 & Splinter Cell

it's not a microscope...

"to assemble, educate and inspire a cadre of leaders who strive to understand and facilitate the development of exponentially advancing technologies (bio, nano, info, etc); and to apply, focus and guide these to the best benefit of humanity and its environment."

Hmm

It's 1975 And This Man Is About To Show You The Future

ah that good old computer fridge joke.. it's been what.. like 10 years now ?

"a vision of the future that is at once dated and accurate. It is a window into the low-res past, full of the supposedly outmoded technologies that still form the kernel of our day to day computing experience"

Robot Arm

Hollywood OS

Starfire, the Movie, showing a day in the life of a knowledge worker in the far-off distant year, 2004.

15 years already.....

from the first issue of Wired

microformats as proteins, webistes as finite-state machines, abstraction modifier drugs, etc...

An interactive table and chairs that can change colour has been developed by Japanese researchers.

"Robots could one day demand the same citizen's rights as humans, according to a study by the British government."

"Basically they are a practical means to build structures or develop products that can change size and shape in order to have some structural benefit, a reason."

Fetishism for a piece of technology. You would never grab a frog and show it to people saying "this is wonderful biology!" or "Look at this biology!" We have developed a very mechanistic view of technology.

Experimental Grounds for High-Voltage Generation