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Technology to make the world a better place.

We are of the belief economics is holding back technology.  In a world where success and power is measure by monetary means > it is important, as consumers, we influence the direction of the human race in a positive direction.  We must support companies who place a higher value on advancement than on the dollar.  We must help support worthwhile causes, charities, governments in their quest to eliminate world hunger.  As consumers, if we could ensure every person was provided food, shelter, medicare, and treated with dignity > the advancement of the human race would evolve faster than ever before.  

"... Hunger and  greed: the two root causes of criminal activity (industrial / economic / military / commercial/ political/ etc...). The pursuit of the dollar subjugates and devalues everything else. It then becomes easy to forego integrity and decency as you "do whatever it takes" to succeed in the pursuit."
Gordon Sirdiak, 2004

Energy Sources

- Under Construction - We currently live in an oil dominated society. We rely on oil and gas for most of the goods we consume, our transportation, heating, etc... As we advance - we must find cleaner, more efficient energy sources to wean us from our reliance on fossil fuels.  There are a number of technologies on the horizon. Many of which are being held back for economic reasons or enough money isn't being sunk into the research and development of them to make them worthwhile. 

Transportation

- Under Construction - Imagine, ten years from now, flying to work in your own Personalized Flying Machine (PFM) or being able to drive from New York to London across the Atlantic.  You could travel the world without having to take a boat or plane.  Tested PFM's have existed at a prototype level for about thirty years.  With new computer technologies, PFM's guided by computerized air-traffic controllers and GPS systems have made this a reality.  Vehicles like the Moller Skycar ( www.moller.com ) are only a few years from becoming reality but it will take mass production from the major auto manufacturers to make the vehicles affordable enough for the majority of consumers. 

Nanotechnology

BBC News reported on May 6th, 2004 that a New York University team has developed a tiny microscopic robot walker made from DNA. The robot measuring only 10 nanometres long.  The applications for such a device in the future are far reaching.  Nanotechnology robots could be sent into the human body to repair cancerous tissues, strengthen heart valves, or whatever. 

Exploring the realms of nanotechnology will eventually lead to the invention of replicators. Being able to precisely manipulate energy at an atomic level will be the ultimate feat for humanity and put an end to hunger and greed.  Much like a 3-Dimensional photocopier, a replicator could replicate food, medicine, and even leisure items like TV's.  A large replicator may even be able to replicate buildings. Gives new meaning to the term "Turning water into wine"

Technology Timeline - The Last Century.

1903 - Wright brothers' airplane remained in flight for 12 seconds 
1904 - Fleming invented vacuum tube diode 
1904 - Genetics experiments by Thomas Morgan, discovery of sex-linked mutations (among a group of fruit flies with normal red or unusual white eyes, all of the white-eyed offspring were male). 
1905 - Einstein published papers on Brownian motion, the photoelectric effect, and the special theory of relativity 
1906 - De Forest invented the triode vacuum tube 
1906 - Thomson discovered the electron 
1908 - the "Tunguska event" - major damage to a forest region in Siberia caused by a comet or meteorite 
1908 - Ford produced the Model T automobile 
1908 - Wegener proposed theory of continental drift 
1909 - The "Piltdown Man" hoax -- a fake archeological discovery announced by dishonest scientists who wanted to "prove" that human beings had evolved in Europe 
1911 - Rutherford discovered that the positive charge in an atom is concentrated in a small nucleus; proposed a planetary model of the atom 
1912 - Pickard invented the crystal diode and crystal detector 
1913 - Edison invented motion pictures with sound 
1913 - Ford added the assembly line to his automobile plant 
1913 - Bohr published his model of the atom, based on energy states described by one quantum number 
1916 - Lewis proposed the idea of covalent bonds 
1916 - Einstein published the general theory of relativity 
1917 - Germany - the first major military use of airplanes to drop bombs on cities 
1919 - Eddington recorded data on the sun's gravitational deflection of starlight during a solar eclipse, confirming Einstein's general theory of relativity 
1923 - Freud published "The Ego and the Id" 
1923 - Development of the diptheria vaccine 
1923 - Production of insulin to treat diabetes 
1923 - Hubble estimated the distance from the Milky Way Galaxy to the Andromeda Galaxy 
1924 - Discovery of Australopithecus Africanus, its human-sized brain too large to be that of an ape, but having the canine teeth of a gorilla 
1924 - De Broglie proposed that all matter has wave properties 
1925 - Pauli proposed the Exclusion Principle (no two electrons in an atom can have the same set of quantum numbers) 
1925 - Scopes fired from biology teaching position for teaching evolution 
1926 - Schrodinger developed the wave equation 
1926 - Born proposed the statistical interpretation of the wave equation 
1926 - Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket 
1927 - Heisenberg proposed the Uncertainty Principle (we cannot simultaneously determine the position and momentum of a subatomic particle) 
1927 - Experiment by Davisson and Germer, and simultaneous experiment by G. P. Thompson, proved the wave behavior of electrons 
1927 - the first television transmission (England) 
1928 - Dirac developed the relativistic quantum theory 
1927 - Big bang theory introduced 
1929 - Hubble discovered that the galaxies are moving away from each other, causing an expansion of the universe 
1930 - Tombaugh discovered Pluto 
1931 - Lawrence invented the cyclotron 
1931 - Anderson discovered the positron 
1932 - Chadwick discovered the neutron 
1936 - the first regular television broadcast (England) 
1937 - Discovery of the muon 
1938 - Hahn, Strassmann, Meitner and Frisch discovered nuclear fission 
1938 - Bethe hypothesized that nuclear fusion is the source of energy in stars 
1939 - The first regular TV broadcast in the U.S. 
1939 - Discovery of Kirlian photography -- electrical "auras" surrounding living specimens 
1942 - Fermi produced the first nuclear chain reaction in an experiment 
1942 - Establishment of the Manhattan Project to develop an atomic bomb 
1945 - The first atomic bomb was detonated at Hiroshima, Japan -- about 70,000 people were killed instantly; about 30,000 more people died within several weeks 
1946 - Gamow proposed the Big Bang hypothesis. 
1946 - The University of Pennsylvania developed the ENIAC computer, containing 18,000 vacuum tubes 
1947 - W. F. Libby invented radiocarbon dating 
1947 - Researchers at Bell Labs invented the transistor 
1947 - Discovery of the pion (predicted by Yukawa in 1935) 
1948 - Kinsey published "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" 
1951 - Franklin discovered nucleic acids (RNA and DNA), helical shape 
1952 - The first sex-change surgery, transforming George Jorgensen into Christine Jorgensen 
1953 - Kinsey published "Sexual Behavior in the Human Female" 
1953 - Watson and Crick discovered DNA has double helix, composed of ATCG bases occuring in pairs (A with T, and C with G) 
1953 - Miller produced amino acids from inorganic compounds and sparks 
1953 - Radioactive fluorine dating proved that the "Piltdown Man" artifact was a hoax 
1956 - Discovery of the neutrino (predicted by Pauli in 1930) 
1957 - The first artificial satellite, Sputnik, put into earth orbit 
1958 - U.S. Congress established NASA 
1959 - First unmanned spacecraft hit the moon (Soviet Union) 
1960 - Maiman invented the ruby laser 
1960 - Javan invented the helium-neon laser 
1960 - Goodall studied chimpanzees in Tanzania 
1960 - Development and approval of the birth control pill 
1961 - A person orbited the earth for the first time (Yuri Gagarin) 
1963 - Vine and Matthews discovered that rock layers with particular magnetic orientations, indicating reversals of the earth's magnetic field, are symmetrical about the mid-oceanic ridge, indicating that new crust is created at the ridge. 
1963 - Gell-Mann proposed protons and neutrons are made of smaller particles (quarks) 
1964 - Discovery of a quasar 
1964 - Unmanned U.S. spacecraft transmitted television pictures of the moon before hitting the surface 
1964 - Wilson and Penzias discovered the background microwave radiation of the universe 
1965 - The first "space walk" (Soviet Union) 
1966 - The first unmanned soft landing on the moon (Soviet Union) 
1967 - Salam and Weinberg developed a model to unite electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force. 
1967 - Bell and Hewish discover pulsars 
1967 - U.S. astronauts Grissom, White and Chaffee killed during ground test; Apollo program delayed 
1968 - Human beings orbited the moon for the first time (Apollo 8) 
1969 - People walked on the moon for the first time (Apollo 11) 
1969 - Meteorite in Australia found to contain amino acids 
1970 - Apollo 13 moon landing canceled due to severe malfunctions 
1971 - First unmanned spacecraft hit Mars (Soviet Union) 
1971 - Apollo 15 used the lunar rover 
1971 - First space station, Salyut 1, and first space docking (Soviet Union) 
1972 - Discovery of a 2 million year old humanlike fossil, Homo habilis, in Africa 
1973 - U.S. launched Skylab space station 
1974 - Discovery of "Lucy" in Africa, an almost complete homonid skelton over 3 million years old, only 3 and a half feet tall but having adult teeth, a small brain, walked upright 
1975 - First unmanned soft landing on Venus (Soviet Union) 
1975 - The first U.S.-Soviet space docking (Apollo and Soyuz) 
1975 - Invention of the CAT scanner (computerized axial tomography) 
1976 - Cosmic string theory was introduced 
1977 - Voyager spacecraft launched; contained recording of earth sounds, including music and greetings in 55 Earth languages 
1977 - Submarine "Alvin" explored midoceanic ridge, discovered chemosynthetic life 
1979 - First "test tube baby" from artificial insemination 
1979 - Voyager 1 and 2 photographed Jupiter 
1980 - Voyager 2 photographed Saturn 
1980 - Introduction of the the communication protocol that led to the Internet 
1981 - Binnig and Rohrer invented the scanning tunneling microscope 
1981 - U.S. launched the first space shuttle, Columbia 
1982 - First launch of communications satellites into orbit by space shuttle 
1984 - First retrieval of malfunctioning satellites, repair and relaunch by space shuttle 
1984 - Discovery of ozone hole over Antarctica 
1986 - Voyager 2 photographed Uranus; discovered moons 
1986 - Development of the first high temperature superconductors 
1986 - Soviet Union launched Mir space station 
1986 - U.S. space shuttle Challenger exploded on launch, killing 7 astronauts 
1989 - Voyager 2 photographed Neptune; discovered moons 
1989 - An asteroid came relatively close to colliding with the earth 
1990 - Hubble Space Telescope launched; optical defect discovered 
1991 - Discovery of the buried crater near the Yucatan Peninsula, dated at 65 million years old 
1992 - Pope John Paul II acknowledged the Vatican's error in the condemnation of Galileo 
1993 - Wiles proved Fermat's Last Theorem, which had been first proposed in 1637 
1993 - Hubble Space Telescope repaired 
1994 - Hubble Space Telescope confirmed existence of a black hole 
1994 - Astronomers observed comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (S-L 9) colliding with Jupiter 
1995 - the second U.S./Russian space docking (Atlantis and Mir) 
1995 - Discovery of the top quark at Fermilab 
1996 - Pope John Paul II affirmed evolution by natural selection 
1997 - Microscopic analysis of meteorite led to belief in ancient life on Mars

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