| Energy
& Light
Coming soon! Much
more energy, economics of oil, and alternative energy links...
New book:
Energy: The Master
Resource (July 2004) by Robert Bradley Jr. &
Richard Fulmer (link to www.EnergyRealism.org,
where book is posted)
The
amazing story of how technology is replentishing and expanding
Earth's supply of natural resources... (link to January 2001
Atlantic Monthly],
Robert Bradley's Institute
for Energy Research
Space
Technology
Great
mambo chicken and the transhuman condition
(strange technology dept.), Martian
Chronicle: From Earth to Mars...,
Prospects
for Space Tourism, Take a tour
with Interglobal
Space Lines..., Can only governments
get us into space? See John Jewkes, Sources
of Invention, The
Starship Private Enterprise,
Frontiers:
Last, Lost, and Found, A
Space Pyramid?
Plains, Trains, & Automobiles
Airplanes: Govt.-backed
Langley vs. Wright Brothers.
Aircars: Paul
Moller's Skycar. Airships: The
Great Airship Race (the R100 vs. R101), Automobiles: Economics
and American History: For and
Against
Preston
Tucker: The Man and His Dream,
Paul
Moller's Skycar. Steamships: Vanderbilt
& Collins Race the Atlantic. New
American Industrial Policy
Tech: Good or Bad
Are
Synthetic Chemicals Bad?
Tech page: Technology:
Good, Bad Or...? UIL Spring
2001 LD debate topic: "Resolved: Increased reliance on technology
undermines the quality of life in America." Click
here for page of research links
on UIL technology topic, Technology
and Happiness, Too
Much Entertainment Technology? Essay on UIL Technology topic
Privacy Technology
New!
NCPA
Privacy & Technology study,
The
Reinvention of Privacy: It used to be that business and technology
were considered the enemies of privacy. Not anymore.
(Atlantic Monthly cover story)
Texas World!
Too
many people on Earth? Perhaps they would all be better off
in Texas..., 5,999,999,999
and Counting
Biotechnology
A
look at the "Frankenfoods Frenzy"
(Reason Online)
Medical Technology
The
stressful story of discovering the cause of ulcers
(illustrated!), FDA and new medical device technology: Anti-FDA
Cato Study, Pro-FDA
page from FDA,
Sources of Invention
Entrepreneurial
Sources of Invention (lecture notes)
Full
text of John Jewkes essay, "The Sources of Invention" from
Essays on Liberty, Vol IV.
Environmental Technology
Articles
on environmental issues,
Julian
Simon page, Economics
of Renewable Energy, New!
Alaska
oil fields and caribou
Antitrust & Monopoly
FEE Student Seminar:
Is
Antitrust Anticompetitve? Seattle April 20-21,
Breaking
Up Antitrust, The
Failure of Antitrust Policy,
Unions
and Antitrust, The
Ghost of Rockefeller, The
Rhetoric of Antitrust, The
Butter Monopoly?, Microsoft
and Consumers, Merger
Policy Fails Hi-Tech Test, The
Irresistible Force of Market Competition,
"Lock-in"
theory is dead wrong, Barbarians
at Bill Gates, Philosophy
Behind Microsoft Trial
Airships & Oceans
Airships: Capitalism vs. Socialism
in The
Great Airship Race, The Baron's
Big Balloon: A German aristocrat-businessman is relaunching
the age of the airship, armed with millions in the bank and
a team of crack engineers. Can
superblimps rise again? (Wired article).,
Airships:
A brief history. Build
your own (small) airship.
Ocean enterprises: Welcome
to Oceania! Dealing
with an iron-poor ocean, "Give
me a half-tanker of iron, and I'll give you an ice age" (Scientific
American "Fertilizing the Sea" article),
Fishing
for Markets Regulation and Ocean Farming
(Cato Institute article)
Technology
& Freedom page
The
Sources of Invention by John Jewkes
Technology
and Happiness
Too
Much Entertainment Technology?
Great
mambo chicken and the transhuman condition (strange technology
dept.)
Environment
page.
Living
Machines Tackle River Pollution
(wired.com)
Making
Environmental Trade-Offs by Doug Bandow
Harvard
CID Economics
and Malaria page
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