Computer Applications - Week 10
Lifecourse
http://www.lifecourse.com
Generation Watch
http://www.lifecourse.com/generationwatch/index.html
GenY ("Millennials") begins hitting the
campus (look out, Xers!)
http://www.thelantern.com/news/2004/09/28/Campus/Generation.Y.Swarms.Campuses-733729.shtml
Girls match boys in drinking, exceed them
in getting drunk
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4187698.stm
It's a wonderful life - the US gets better
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2092-1733906,00.html
Redzone-Bluezone - so 17th century!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A28755-2004Mar27¬Found=true
Children never leaving their parents' home becomes the norm
India bans public smoking - The law also
forbids any direct or indirect advertising of tobacco products and the sale of
cigarettes to children.
India
outlaws smoking in public
Links to The "Peak Oil" crisis - Energy in
short supply
Oil and alternative energy
Bio-diesel will
cause bio-disaster
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1357370,00.html
Caltech provost on
the end of the oil age
http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_15426.shtml
Myths of the 'hydrogen economy'
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/081803_hydrogen_answers.html
Life after the oil
crash
http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/
The Coming Dark Age
http://www.darkage.fsnet.co.uk/
Robot Nation
http://www.marshallbrain.com
robo-john
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,59979,00.html
Student essays graded by computer
Indiana Essays Being Graded by Computers
Wal-Mart begins to install self-checkout
systems
http://roboticnation.blogspot.com
Security cameras began to watch you on your own
http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2007/02/26/surveillance_cameras_latest_job_interpret_the_threats_they_see/
Japan's Rise of the Robots
Elderly Japanese prefer
robots to human nurses - who needs "the human touch"?
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/163341_japan05.html
A culture of robotics - why Japan leads the
world
Robotics news portal
Virtual Pets Page
The robot store
Robot Nation
US Space plan to push robots - who needs
astronauts?
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20040109-124428-2214r
DARPA Grand Challenge Teams - Robot Car
Race
http://www.grandchallenge.org
Team Robo Monster (Art Institute of California, Los Angeles' entry in the
2005 Grand Challenge)
Japanese pioneer use of
robots to take care of elderly