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Techtionary, a complete online visual
glossary of technology terms
http://crosstouch.com/techtionary/index_in.html
Smithsonian: Science and Technology
http://www.si.edu/science_and_technology/
Society for the History of Technology:
Links
http://shot.jhu.edu/links.htm
PBS' The American Experience Technology
Timeline
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/telephone/timeline/f_timeline.html
The Once and Future Web: Worlds Woven
by the Telegraph and Internet
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/onceandfutureweb
John Gast's "American Progress"
(1872)
http://www.csubak.edu/~gsantos/img0061.html
History of Computing from ECHO Virtual
Center
http://echo.gmu.edu/center/searchcat.php?DBN=echo&TBL=directory&FLD=computer&REC=1
Hobbes' Internet Timeline
http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/
Internet History Links from the Internet
Society
http://www.isoc.org/internet-history/
Association for Computing Machinery
Technology News Summaries
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
Newswatch - Compendium of Media Sources
http://www.newswatch.org/
Silicon Flatirons Telecommunications
Program, University of Colorado at Boulder
http://www.silicon-flatirons.org/
President Bush's Technology Agenda
http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/technology/
Internet Public Policy Network
http://internetpublicpolicy.com/links.cfm
Benton Foundation - Digital Divide
Network
http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org/
Electronic Frontier Foundation
http://www.eff.org
Open Society Institute Internet Program
http://www.soros.org/internet/
Global Information Infrastructure
Commission
http://www.giic.org/
Internet Corporation for Assigned
Names and Numbers
http://www.icann.org
Internet Engineering Task Force
http://www.ietf.org
ACM Code of Ethics
http://www.acm.org/constitution/code.html
IEEE Code of Ethics
http://onlineethics.org/codes/IEEEcode.html
Computer Professionals for Social
Responsibility
http://www.cpsr.org
A Timeline of Open Source in Government
http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2002/07/15/osgov_timeline.html
Understanding Artificial Intelligence (2002, Warner Books).
Kurzweil, Ray. 2000. The Age of Spiritual Machines. NY: Penguin.
Brooks, Rodney. 2002. Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us. NY: Pantheon Books.
Further readings on Cyberspace:
Michael Benedikt, Ed. Cyberspace: First Steps (Cambridge, Mass: Mit Press, 1991).
Barrie Sherman and Phil Judkins, Glimpses of Heaven, Visions of Hell: Virtual Reality and its Implication (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1992).
Howard Rheingold, The Virtual Community: Finding Connection in a Computerised World (London: Secker and Warburg, 1994).
Claudia Springer, "The Pleasure of the Interface," Screen, 32 (3), Autumn 1991.
Peter Weibel, "Virtual Worlds: the Emperor's New Bodies," in Hattinger et al., Ars Electronica 1990.
Shawn P. Wilbur, "An Archaeology of Cyberpaces: Virtuality, Community,Identity," in David Bell and Barbara Kennedy, Eds., The Cybercultures Reader (NY: Routledge, 2000).
Arturo Escobar, "Welcome to Cyberia: Notes on the Anthropology of Cyberculture," in David Bell and Barbara Kennedy, Eds., The Cybercultures Reader (NY: Routledge, 2000).
Links to editorials and papers critiquing
contemporary technology and science, and the society that sustains them
http://www.socialcritic.org/
Essays on the philosophy of technology
http://commhum.mccneb.edu/PHILOS/techessay.htm
Techné: Journal of the Society
for Philosophy and Technology
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/SPT/
Technology and Culture Bibliography
and Online Resources
http://www.fred.net/tzaka/techne3.html
Rodney Brooks Home Page
http:// www.ai.mit.edu/people/brooks/index.shtml
SRIs AI Center
http://www.ai.sri.com
MIT AI lab
http://www.ai.mit.edu/index.shtml
NUA Survey: How Many
Online?
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/how_many_online/
Online Depression Study
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/21stC/issue-3.4/featherstone.html
Michio Kaku
http://www.mkaku.org/movie.html
Glossary of Geek (from PBS's site
on the history of the Internet)
http://www.pbs.org/opb/nerds2.0.1/geek_glossary/
The Hacker Jargon File
http://www.jargonfile.org/jargon/html/The-Jargon-Lexicon-framed.html
TECHtionary
http://www.techtionary.com
Best all-around list of links for
web site design, content, layout, how-to's, and issues like copyrights and public
domain
http://www.fixingyourwebsite.com/links.html
Web Pages That Suck
http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/
Jakob Nielsen's Web Design and Usability
Site
http://www.useit.com/
Web-safe Color Palette
http://www.lynda.com/hexh.html
Wired: Design is a Chain Reaction
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.01/designopener.html
MIT Media Lab
http://www.media.mit.edu/
Calculating Cartoons
http://www.sciencenews.org/20020126/bob10.asp
Soda Constructor
http://www.sodaplay.com/constructor/index.htm
Star Wars Asciimation
http://www.asciimation.co.nz/
Crash course on HDTV
http://www.pbs.org/opb/crashcourse/hdtv/
Assistive Technology and Accessible
Media in Higher Education, November 6-8. Boulder
http://www.colorado.edu/sacs/ATconference/
XM radio
http://www.xmradio.com/
Sirius radio
http://www.siriusradio.com/
Sony robot does Tai Chi (Quicktime
video)
http://www.tokyodv.com/news/RoboDex2002SDR-3XSonybot.html
Netsurfer Robotics
http://www.netsurf.com/nsr/
Finnish Hunting Dogs Are Issued With
Mobile Phones
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_654158.html
NIST Biometrics Resource Web Site
http://www.nist.gov/biometrics
Views from Space, Courtesy of NASA
http://www.visibleearth.nasa.gov/
World Summit on Sustainable Development,
August 26 - September 4, 2002
http://www.johannesburgsummit.org/
Converging Technologies for Improving
Human Performance:
Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information Technology, and Cognitive Science
http://itri.loyola.edu/ConvergingTechnologies/
The World According to David Gelernter
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/digicult/dc9801.htm
Death Ray Weapons "Ready in
a Decade"
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/archive/7-8-19102-23-44-22.html