Physics of the Future

"The World in 2030" by Dr. Michio Kaku" This site is useful because it is direct opinions from Michio Kaku about the future. This site is reliable because it is a direct speech from Dr. Kaku.

"Recent innovations such as the iPad provide an exciting glimpse into the future of computers." This site is useful because it explains different types of technology and what they will be in the future. This site is reliable because I checked it's reliablity on easybib.

In this article you can find various information about the future of propulsion devices that are planned to be used for the future rockets. This article strictly keys in on the idea of Nuclear Fusion Generators to provide energy for the rocket. Although, in this article they also state that this may not happen anytime soon because of the fact that so far, humanity has not been able to create a generator that creates more energy than it consumes. Other ideas include extremely large solar panel sails that have lasers bouncing off of them. This article includes very useful information about futuristic propulsion devices.

"Many scientists believe the exponential growth in computing power leads inevitably to a future moment when computers will attain human-level intelligence: an event known as the "singularity"." I find this site very useful because it gives insight from many different perspectives about different possibilities for the future of the computer. It talks about how computers will possibly be capable of out thinking humans. On the contrary, the source talks about how computers may not be capable of outperforming humans. I believe this source is reliable because it contains quotes from many respected scientists, including Michio Kaku.

This site lists some possibilities for renewable energy in the future. It gives predictions for 50 years from now. This site is reliable because "big think", the website it is on, is a reliable website for research and technology and cites its own sources.

"The skeptics among the Old Space people will say to the upstarts: Where's your rocket? How many times have you launched? Can you deliver reliably? Repeatedly? Safely? We put a man on the moon - what have you done?" I find this source to be incredibly useful for it describes how current companies are already at work creating innovations in space travel. It shows how "Old Space" and "New Space" are competing with each other and how NASA is chipping in. I will use this website to learn what we already have and how far we still need to go. I believe this is a reliable source because it was published by The Washington Post, a typically trustworthy website.

In this website you will find information about how space is planning to be commercialized. You can currently buy a ticket to go up into space for $250,000.The plan for the future is that people want to create companies that would ship people up into space for a reasonable price, so that people could go on vacations into space. Also, the plan is to make space travel commercial, much like air-line companies, instead of having space travel be a strictly governmental idea. One way to help our governments travel further into space and explore, is the new idea to use the moon as a base to help rockets fuel-up. Basically, they want the moon to be a gas station for rockets and use some of the dirt from the moon to help create the fuel. This website is very helpful in giving various information about the commercialization of space.

"Technology changes quickly - today's popular devices may be obsolete in only two years" This site is useful because it shares some information on the future of desktops becoming obsolete. This site is reliable because it has valid facts that I have seen on other websites.

This article shows and cites predictions from scientists about the future. It is reliable due to these citations, and contains a wide variety of information. From fusion and fission to governmental predictions, this website has just about everything.

"The general representation of a cyborg is that seen in science fiction films of a fusion between human and machine." This site is useful because it shares with us what could happen with the developement of cyborgs in the future. This site is reliable because I searched it on easybib and it said it was.

"Computing has developed at an amazing pace over the last few decades, but even today's computers are essentially glorified calculators" This site is useful because it shares very interesting information about the future of computers acting and thinking like humans. This site is reliable because it is on a news website backed by facts.

"Growing at the average rate of about 3% per year, however, one may calculate that our own civilization may attain Type I status in about 100-200 years, Type II status in a few thousand years, and Type III status in about 100,000 to a million years." Michio Kaku's website has some great articles that have to do with our topic. This article, in particular, has information on types of civilizations. I know that this is a reliable source because it is on Kaku's website.

This website focuses all on one branch of nanotechnology: nanobots. The website lists the wide variety of jobs nanobots can do, from cleaning entire kitchens while no one is home to being injected in the bloodstream to kill cancer cells before they form a tumor. This website seems to be very official and is entirely dedicated to spreading the knowledge of every part of nanotechnology. I recommend everyone in nanotechnology to look over this website, because it has such a vast array of knowledge on the topic.

"Forget wearable technology. It may not be too much longer before sensors are actually put inside your body.It may sound a little bit futuristic and far-fetched, but the reality is that indigestible sensors and implantable chips are already in use and growing." This source could be beneficial for this project because it talks about yet another technological tool that may be used in the medical field of 2100. It provides information on how chronicle disease could be dealt with and why the electronic pills would be an efficient way to monitor the patients health status. This could be a part of the "Staying Young" topic. We know this is a reliable source because it is a news report from CNBC, which we know provides trustworthy information.

"We are on a search for who we are. What does it mean to be a human? Can there be more than one kind of human? In fact, what exactly is a human?" In this article on Huffington Post, Kevin Kelly addresses the fact that we, as humans, do not really know who we are as well as questions the authenticity of what is around us. Growing technology and the internet make people question their identities even more, as they may enable us to change our physical features, as well as make people question what is real. Upon further research, I have found that Kevin Kelly was a co-founder of the Wired magazine and has recently gotten a book, What Technology Wants, published. I feel that this online article is a very reliable source based on the aforementioned information about the author and I to think about the questions that Kelly brought up while I read Physics of the Future. Citations: "Biography." Kevin Kelly. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Feb. 2014.

In this article you will find key information to begin the great researching stage of this project. While reading this website you learn that one of the main goals of DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) and NASA are to create an Interstellar Spaceship that would be able to travel to stars that are light years away. This project is what they will be focusing a majority of their research on and giving grants to separate organizations to help them carry out this goal. They are hoping to develop this spaceship in the next 100 years and are hoping to use futuristic technologies such as thermonuclear engines, or sending vehicles across the galaxy by bouncing laser beams off their sails to help create these spaceships. They are also offering to accept new ideas such as anti-gravity engines, and plasma shields. This website holds very useful information.

nanotechnology is an interesting concept. many world governments have invested billions in research for nanotechnology. "Nanotechnology (sometimes shortened to "nanotech") is the manipulation of matter on an atomic, molecular, and supramolecular scale. The earliest, widespread description of nanotechnology[1][2] referred to the particular technological goal of precisely manipulating atoms and molecules for fabrication of macroscale products, also now referred to as molecular nanotechnology. A more generalized description of nanotechnology was subsequently established by the National Nanotechnology Initiative, which defines nanotechnology as the manipulation of matter with at least one dimension sized from 1 to 100 nanometers. This definition reflects the fact that quantum mechanical effects are important at this quantum-realm scale, and so the definition shifted from a particular technological goal to a research category inclusive of all types of research and technologies that deal with the special properties of matter that occur below the given size threshold. It is therefore common to see the plural form "nanotechnologies" as well as "nanoscale technologies" to refer to the broad range of research and applications whose common trait is size. Because of the variety of potential applications (including industrial and military), governments have invested billions of dollars in nanotechnology research. Through its National Nanotechnology Initiative, the USA has invested 3.7 billion dollars. The European Union has invested 1.2 billion and Japan 750 million dollars."

"Nanotechnology (sometimes shortened to "nanotech") is the manipulation of matter on an atomic, molecular, and supramolecular scale" Nanotechnology is really a manipulation-nanotechnology doesn't happen naturally.

Pretty good facts on this, I just do not know how reliable this page is, given that it is off of wikipedia. It is interesting to find out just how much countries have invested in nanotechnology. Just may want to check credibility to this page.

This site provides some insight on the economic powers of the world in the near future. We can use the more recent predictions to more accurately estimate the economic state of the future.

"The growing power of computer vision is a crucial first step for the next generation of computing, robotic and artificial intelligence systems. Once machines can identify objects and understand their environments, they can be freed to move around in the world. And once robots become mobile they will be increasingly capable of extending the reach of humans or replacing them." This source is useful because it give some good background information on artificial intelligence and also an idea of what it will be like in the near future. The information from this article will be used in our project when we present what AI is like today and how it is quickly expanding. The facts and knowledge from this article are credible because it is from an official news source, the New York Times. This article is also reliable because it contains real quotes from real scientists studying AI.

Here is another great source that I found. It is another government website that is reliable, and completely full of facts. It gives some new perspectives on how to grasp how small a nanometer and how small the nanoscale really is. It also lists several ways that nanotechnology can be used. This is a site that will increase almost everybody's knowledge on nanotechnology.

Great page! A lot of good, strong facts. I liked the size part about just how big nanotechnology is, compared to a human hair.