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• DVD Player/ Color TV/ Radio/ Lantern/ Compass/ Mosquito Repeller ...All-in-one -  SF Chronicle 23dec02

• Military Testing Future Additions to Nonlethal-Weapons Arsenal - Stars and Stripes 22dec02

• Troops Train to Use Nonlethal Weapons to Control Crowds, Reduce Civilian Deaths -  Stars and Stripes 22dec02

• Taming The Machine - Time  16dec02

• China to Unveil World's Fastest Train  - People's Daily (China) 5dec02

• Bank of America Tests QuickWave Purchase Card  - AP 21nov02

• RFID: Smart Tape for Radio Frequency Identification Technology (RFID)  - Line56 20nov02

• IBM Plans a Computer That Will Set Power Record  - NY Times 20nov02

• Rules for a Complex Quantum World: An exciting new fundamental discipline of research combines information science and quantum mechanics -  Scientific American 1nov02

• Red Storm: Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) Supercomputer - SANDIA Press Release 21oct02

• Polygraph Is Poor Tool for Screening Employees - NY Times 8oct02

• Privacy Today: A Review of Current Issues - Privacy Rights Clearinghouse 1oct02

• Stanford Linear Accelerator Center is 40 Years Old  - SF Chronicle 30sep02

• Experts Try to Make Bionic Retinas  - AP 25sep02

• Built to Last: Why Retro Fridges Are Hot Among Appliance Buffs  - Wall Street Journal 20sep02

• RFID: Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Changes Everything  - Line56 19sep02

• 'Inventing America': A Technological History  - Book Review / NY Times 15sep02

• HP Labs Creates Densest Memory Chip  - AP 10sep02

• TV is 75- Years-Old Today  - SF Chronicle 7sep02

• Sight to the Blind - Sandia Corporation Press Release 5sep02

• Digital age alters way data is saved, destroyed  - Boston Globe 2sep02

• Opposition to Nanotechnology  - NY Times 19aug02

• NASA Plans to Read Terrorist's Minds at Airports -  Washington Times 17aug02

• 'A Thread Across the Ocean': The (Telegraph) Cable Guy -  NY Times 11aug02

• Liquatech Turbine uses mine waste to generate clean power - CISRO Media Release 8aug02

• Japanese Supercomputer Beats Top US Machine -  AP 23jul02

• Microchip: Three-and-a-half Pound Microchip: Environmental Implications of the IT Revolution -  Press Release / American Chemical Society 11jul2002

• EMF: Symptoms experienced by people in vicinity of base station: I/Incidences of distance and sex  - Santini et al / Pathologie Biologie 1jul02

• New Non-Lethal Weapons System May Be Used Against U.S. Citizens (Parts 1 &2) Nick Begich / Leading Edge News 23may02

• RFID: The Internet of Things - Forbes 18mar02

• JOHN ZERZAN Interviewed: You May Be an Anarchist — And Not Even Know It  - Derrick Jensen, The Sun 15may01

• Technology and the Commodification of Higher Education David F Noble / Monthly Review v.53, n.10 1mar02

• From Scotchgard™ to Steam Engines, Inventions make a Difference in our Lives. Advertising by Hewlett-Packard / Time Magazine 4feb02

• Cyborg Agonistes - Science Bought and Sold: Essays in the Economics of Science 1jan02

• Active Denial Technology (ADT): Microwave beam weapon to disperse crowds - New Scientist 24oct01

• ASCI White: Livermore Lab Unveils Supercomputer  - AP 15aug01

• EMR Reduces Melatonin in Animals and People - Dr. Neil Cherry 26jul00

• Electrical Sensitivity - Arthur Firstenberg & Susan Molloy / Latitudes 1jul02

• EMF: Non-Ionizing Radiation, Part 1: Static and Extremely Low-Frequency (ELF) Electric and Magnetic Fields - v.80 - IARC Monographs Programme on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans 7mar02

• RFID: A Chip In The Money Game -  Forbes 7mar01

• Technology and the Commodification of Higher Education - Dr. David F Noble / Monthly Review v.53, n.10 1mar02

• EMF: Childhood cancer incidence in the vicinity of the Sutro Tower, San Francisco  - Dr. Neil Cherry 29may00

• Why the Future Doesn't Need Us - Bill Joy / Wired i.8.04, 1apr00

• Lynx Fine-Resolution Realtime synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) on a General Atomics I-GNAT - Scandia Technology v.1, n.4 Winter99-00

• RFID: TacMedCS RFID: Virtual Medical System Beams Navy into 21st Century - PNNL 31may00

• Laser: Team ABL Begins Fabrication Of Airborne Laser Turret - Boeing Press Release 7apr2000

• RFID: Honeybees All the Buzz in Landmine Detection - Breakthroughs magazine, Fall99

• RFID: Worker Bees as Tracking Devices - Popular Science Aug99

• Recreating Life in the Image of Technology - Andrew Kimbrell / The Ecologist 1may99

• RFID: Bees in Landmine Detection - PNNL 28apr99

• The Religion of Technology: The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention - Dr. David Noble speaking at Seattle University, sponsored by the Ernest Becker Foundation - transcribed by Paul Goettlich 19feb98

• So who exactly is Richard Seed?  - New Scientist 17jan98

• Epidemiologic Evidence Relevant to Radar (Microwave) Effects - Goldsmith, JR / Environmental Health Perspectives 1dec97

• Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education (part 1of 6) David F Noble, Ph.D. 1oct97

• EMF: Microwaving Our Planet: The Environmental Impact of the Wireless Revolution - Arthur Firstenberg / Cellular Phone Taskforce 1997

• Video Surveillance Cameras: Questions & Concerns Presented to Members Public Safety Committee Oakland City Council 23may1997

• EMF: Cancer incidence and mortality and proximity to TV towers - Hocking et al / Medical Journal of Australia 1dec96

• LOCAAS [Low Cost Autonomous Attack System]: Wright Laboratory develops an anti-armor submunition that's smart, low-cost and lethal - Airman 1sep96

• Sir Alec Jeffreys on DNA Profiling and Minisatellites - Science Watch 1996

• Technological Determinism in American Culture - M R Smith - excerpted from Does Technology Drive History? The Dilemma of Technological Determinism MIT Press 2jun94

• EMF: Are Microwaves faced with a Fiasco similar to that experienced by Nuclear Energy? Wolfgang Volkrodt  / Wetter-Boden-Mensch 4/1991

• EMF: Electromagnetic pollution of the environment - Wolfgang Volkrodt / in Environment and Health: A Holistic Approach (Avebury) 1988

• EMF: Magnetospheric Effects of Power Line Radiation - CG Park & RA Helliwell / Science 19may78

• Microwave: Percy Spencer and His Itch to Know - Readers Digest 1aug1958

• US Patent: (Microwave Cooking) Method Of Treating Foodstuffs - P. L. Spencer / U.S. Patent 2,495,429 24jan1950

  • The Microwave Oven Cooks Food Quickly by Microwave Radiation Percy Spencer 24jan1950

• US Patent: High Efficiency Magnetron - P. L. Spencer / U.S. Patent Number 2,408,235 24sep1946

• M. Palacio's Design for a Colossal Monument in Memory of Christopher Columbus - Scientific American 25oct1890

• The Linotype: A Machine to Supersede Typesetting - Scientific American 9aug1890

• Railroads in the United States: 1858 Statistics - Scientific American 30apr1890 

• US Patent: Improvement in Telegraphy - Alexander Graham Bell / US Patent No. 174,465 7mar1876

• "Rubber" US Patent No.240 -  Charles Goodyear  17jun1837

• A Children's Story by Hans Christian Andersen (1805-75)
  This story offers insight into how we got to where we are in terms of politics and science. It can serve as an explanation, and possibly a justification, to  most outstanding technologies such as plastics, pesticides, genetic engineering, and cancer research.

 

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