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Taken from Proquest abstract: "The fact is that deploying new technology is only one of the steps needed to soft-land in the future. Smart machines do not automatically catalyze us to smarter lives. Switching on the future entails more effort. For example, what good is going global on the Internet if your real-time allegiances remain nationalistic and ethnocentric? You can gloat over your portable equipment, but if you continue to run in place in unportable lifestyles, marinating for decades in the same apartment, the same city, the same country, the same profession, the same social ties, how portable are you?"

"Explaining The Future" is a site that explains technologies, current usage, and future potential. The site can be used for many technologies, trends, challenges, and thoughts/mindsets.

This is a great resource for you and your colleagues. Interesting and up to date!

This article has an introduction to 3D printing, history of rapid prototyping (3D printing), explanation of 3D printing, the current state of 3D printing, the future of 3D printing, and a Q&A with employees of 3D printing companies.

A site for a renowned futurism organization. Discusses many future technologies and the likelihood of their utilization.

Popular Science has a lot of information about future and emerging technology. The articles range from things about gadgets to new military technologies.

How fying cars are going to change the future and what they will bring to society.

wouldn't they have to come up with a whole new set of rules and regulations? But I still think it is sooo cool!

Comparison of Corn and Soybean yields, including the effects of herbicides when used on crop. 

Discusses what 3D printing is, the different types/methods of 3D printing, applications for 3D printing, and 3D printer vendors. A good place to get an understanding of 3D printing and a good place to look for specific areas of research.

Look at the sources the wiki article references that are listed at the bottom and suggestions for further reading to broaden your research set.

Thought this might be interesting if you haven't seen it yet. http://tek-bull.com/2012/02/scientists-created-a-machine-for-printing-houses-on-the-moon/

This site is a chart of 3D printers below $20,000. It shows the manufacturer, model, method, price, annual service cost, size & weight, build envelope, materials, material costs, speed, accuracy, finish of the final product, strengths, and weaknesses.

With this kind of detailed information, you may consider a slightly different kind of feasibility report which is context specific. For example you may consider the feasibility of ERAU's DB campus acquiring such an item? You could consider need/usability and cost.

The article discusses regeneration and the history of its research. There is more information on the dedifferentiation process and it even approaches the ethical issues of engineering regenerative abilities in human beings.

It's all been very interesting while researching it. In response to Zack, I also didn't know how close they were to achieving this before I started this report. And to Val, it is a tad bit frightening to think what it could mean for the future, but I'm actually a little more scared of your topic, believe it or not!

Also, in case you wanted to see another route for regeneration: http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/rethinking-healthcare/veterans-leg-muscle-regenerated-with-pig-bladder-hormones/5312 http://news.softpedia.com/news/Finger-Regenerated-Using-Pig-Bladder-Extract-84827.shtml Who would've thought, huh?

Taken from "Technology Review," this article touches on how 3D printing has effect the toy industry. Very basic article, just shows some of the potentials of 3D printing. Taken from Technology Review: "what's changed since the invention of 3D scanners and stereolithography -- now known by the more inclusive term 3D printing -- is that they now have the ability to directly translate real world objects into miniature versions of themselves."

3D Systems is a company which sells 3D printers and 3D printer materials. This site has links to different 3D printers, ranging from personal to industrial. The site also has different materials that 3D Systems' printers use.

Really useful as it shows loads of technologies as well as when we can expect them. Each of the items has a linked source for it, so although the original site my not be citable, you can still get citations from it.