Dr Cameron Jones of Swinburne University is working on an amazing new technology. A normal PC and CD-ROM drive can be turned into a laser spectrometer! It's goal at present is to provide a cheap, fast, easily available method of detecting Anthrax or other bio-terrorism substances ( Read more... )

I just heard about a fascinating idea called the Technological Singularity. The following are excerpts from the Everything2 and Wikipedia article ( Read more... )