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- 03:12, 2 February 2012 Automated transport systems/Delivery drones (hist) [1,761 bytes] Balatro (Talk | contribs) (New page: Cargo ships can carry goods from port-to-port, but these leaves the "last mile problem" of getting them from the port to the doorstep. An exciting technology that is currenlty emerging is ...)
- 01:24, 9 January 2012 Books (hist) [2,943 bytes] CharlesC (Talk | contribs) (New page: {{early stage}} No particular order. Images too. Simply a list of interesting books that relate to some aspects of concepts described in AdCiv: * Beginning of infinity * Neil Gershenfel...)
- 02:21, 4 January 2012 Food/Abundance of agricultural resources (hist) [1,917 bytes] CharlesC (Talk | contribs) (New page: The world's agricultural system currently produces ample food for everyone {{em}} over 2700 calories per person per day <sup>[http://www.worldhunger.org/articles/Learn/world%20hunger%20fac...)
- 20:12, 2 January 2012 Free and open-source computer-aided design/What is computer-aided design (hist) [1,716 bytes] CharlesC (Talk | contribs) (New page: CAD software showing a cross-section through a highly detailed model ''<small>(click to enlarge)</small>'' '''Computer-aided design''' (CAD)...)
- 18:07, 31 May 2011 Food/Water-efficient farming (hist) [60 bytes] Balatro (Talk | contribs) (New page: {{:Fundamental resources/Water/Water-efficient agriculture}})
- 19:17, 11 May 2011 Food/Water-efficient agriculture (hist) [31 bytes] Balatro (Talk | contribs) (New page: {{Fundamental resources/Water/Water-efficient agriculture}})
- 19:12, 11 May 2011 Fundamental resources/Water/Water-efficient agriculture (hist) [8,038 bytes] Balatro (Talk | contribs) (New page: <blockquote>''"We need a 'Blue Revolution' in agriculture that focuses on increasing productivity per unit of water — more 'crop per drop'.''</blockquote><div style="text-align: right; d...)
- 03:34, 6 May 2011 Automated transport systems/Light, shared urban vehicles (hist) [6,448 bytes] Balatro (Talk | contribs) (New page: Imagine a city with clean air free of the noise of engines, where you can get from anywhere to anywhere at 50mph (80km/h) or more, without any danger of death, where the problems of traffi...)
- 01:55, 6 May 2011 Automated transport systems/Efficient, autonomous cars (hist) [13,604 bytes] Balatro (Talk | contribs) (New page: Personal Rapid Transit is the most efficient way to move people around a city, while [[Automated transport systems#VacMagLev|VacMagLe...)
- 23:24, 5 May 2011 Automated transport systems/Intro (hist) [2,065 bytes] Balatro (Talk | contribs) (New page: If infrastructure is to be automated, there obviously needs to be automated transportation. Taking ore from mines to smelting plants, taking processed materials such as machine parts to ma...)
- 01:01, 13 April 2011 Food/Open ocean farms (hist) [2,170 bytes] Balatro (Talk | contribs) (New page: 300px69% of the planet is ocean; if we can effectively farm this area, there can be no scarcity of food. Open ocean farming is currently being researched by se...)
- 10:28, 30 October 2010 Food/How the Internet can help feed the world (hist) [1,663 bytes] Balatro (Talk | contribs) (New page: As should be clear from the above, there are techniques that enable people to grow enormous amounts of food sustainably, in very little space. But these are not in widespread use because p...)
- 23:39, 18 October 2010 Open Source Scientific Research (hist) [6,917 bytes] CharlesC (Talk | contribs) (New page: Scientific research can also be done in a spirit of open collaboration. Scientific papers can be made available online to be read and reviewed (a process known as '''open publishing or ope...)
- 09:22, 23 September 2010 Education/Social learning (hist) [2,077 bytes] Balatro (Talk | contribs) (New page: Many experiments in the educational sciences have stressed the importance of social learning. A student of any age will learn more by learning in a group of friends, who all teach and lear...)
- 04:37, 14 September 2010 Post-scarcity/Population (hist) [4,076 bytes] Balatro (Talk | contribs) (New page: There is widespread concern about an 'overpopulation problem'. Let us be clear about what is meant by 'overpopulation' - it is not a problem for a lot of people to be alive. It is a proble...)
- 13:26, 21 August 2010 Horoskop 2010 ryby (hist) [4,742 bytes] Jsmith (Talk | contribs) (New page: <div style="font-size:100%; text-align: center;"> <h1>[http://tinyurl.com/367rfb3 <span style="color:red">Horoskop 2010 Ryby</span>]</h1> [http://tinyurl.com/367rfb3 <span style="color:gre...)
- 03:15, 7 August 2010 Time-binding (hist) [771 bytes] Balatro (Talk | contribs) (New page: As humans collaborate with one another across space, we can also collaborate across time. An engineer building a car nowadays incorporates in his project the cognitive work done by Isaac N...)
- 19:05, 24 July 2010 Internet access (hist) [9,339 bytes] Balatro (Talk | contribs) (New page: Spreading Internet access to every human being who wants it is one of the most important enabling factors in creating a truly advanced civilization. With universal Internet access, all the...)
- 18:36, 24 July 2010 Increment of association (hist) [1,611 bytes] Balatro (Talk | contribs) (New page: <blockquote>''The increment-of-association, a term coined by engineer C.H. Douglas, meaning simply that when we combine our efforts we can do more than the sum of what each of us could do ...)
- 16:56, 24 July 2010 Food/Decentralizing food production (hist) [5,245 bytes] Balatro (Talk | contribs) (New page: While this article gives suggestions on increasing food yields, the fact is that we already have enough food to feed everyone on the planet <sup>[http://www.worldhunger.org/articles/Learn/...)
- 02:51, 14 July 2010 Pandemic preparedness (hist) [3,743 bytes] Balatro (Talk | contribs) (New page: One very real threat to the survival of our species is an outbreak of a disease that is as deadly as HIV and as contagious as the common cold. Such an outbreak ...)
- 02:10, 14 July 2010 Food/Seawater farming (hist) [1,184 bytes] Balatro (Talk | contribs) (New page: It is possible to create a viable farm using seawater instead of fresh water, by growing {{wp|Halophyte|salt-loving plants}} like salicornia for human consumption and mangrove as...)
- 02:07, 14 July 2010 Food/Sections (hist) [12 bytes] Balatro (Talk | contribs) (New page: {{TOC left}})
- 02:05, 14 July 2010 Food/In-vitro meat (hist) [1,942 bytes] Balatro (Talk | contribs) (New page: Using the same methods as regenerative medicine, it is becoming possible to take a few cells from the muscle of an animal an...)
- 01:50, 14 July 2010 Food/Seeding the world with optimized plants (hist) [6,575 bytes] Balatro (Talk | contribs) (New page: In 1968 Paul Ehrlich wrote a book called ''The Population Bomb'', warning that India and China were headed for catastrophic famines, as food production could not keep up with their expandi...)
- 01:50, 8 July 2010 Food/Food and health (hist) [1,500 bytes] Balatro (Talk | contribs) (New page: A shortage of food is not the only problem. Over a billion people are overweight, and 300,000,000 are obese <sup>[http://www.who.int/dietphysicalactivity/publications/facts/obesity/en/]</s...)
- 16:03, 6 July 2010 Human intelligence/Education/Lifelong learning (hist) [526 bytes] Balatro (Talk | contribs) (New page: An interesting side-effect of taking learning out of exclusive institutions and into a free and open domain is that it starts to dissolve the hard-and-fast distinction between someone who ...)
- 03:53, 2 July 2010 Machine intelligence/Artificial intelligence (hist) [7,831 bytes] Balatro (Talk | contribs) (New page: We are entering an age of intelligent machines. Computers are becoming increasingly adept at mental tasks beyond just calculating results and storing and retrieving data. They are becoming...)
- 02:24, 30 June 2010 Human intelligence/Intro (hist) [2,521 bytes] Balatro (Talk | contribs) (New page: Will it look like this in the future? Probably not Ignorance is a contributing factor in many of the problems we face today, such as AIDS, pollution ...)
- 01:58, 30 June 2010 Human intelligence/Educating the whole person (hist) [1,933 bytes] Balatro (Talk | contribs) (New page: Those responsible for educating the young must recognize that if a young person leaves school with a command of three languages, maths and science, but is overweight, unhappy and socially ...)
- 01:58, 30 June 2010 Fundamental resources/Human intelligence/Education/Games, worlds and models (hist) [2,710 bytes] Balatro (Talk | contribs) (`)
- 01:29, 30 June 2010 Fundamental resources/Fundamental resources/Energy (hist) [11 bytes] Balatro (Talk | contribs) (New page: {{:Energy}})
- 15:08, 21 June 2010 Decentralization (hist) [6,850 bytes] Balatro (Talk | contribs) (New page: All around the world and across a mind-boggling array of disciplines, there is a change taking place. Though its signs are subtle, its potential is utterly transformative. Though not yet a...)
- 17:42, 13 June 2010 Open source governance (hist) [3,584 bytes] CharlesC (Talk | contribs) (New page: .)
- 17:42, 13 June 2010 Survival of our species/Open source governance (hist) [59 bytes] CharlesC (Talk | contribs) (New page: {{:open source governance}})
- 17:22, 15 May 2010 Environmental repair (hist) [2,383 bytes] Balatro (Talk | contribs) (New page: <blockquote>''"That garden of Eden is full of old rubber truck tires and tin cans right now, you know."'' {{em}} Gary Snyder</blockquote> We now have the technology to fulfil the needs of...)
- 13:40, 8 May 2010 Open Source Medicine/Sections (hist) [12 bytes] Balatro (Talk | contribs) (New page: {{TOC left}})
- 13:10, 8 May 2010 Advanced automation/Artificial Intelligence (hist) [0 bytes] Balatro (Talk | contribs) (New page: We are entering an age of intelligent machines. Computers are becoming increasingly adept at mental tasks beyond just calculating results and storing and retrieving data. They are becoming...)
- 01:06, 7 May 2010 Food/Permaculture (hist) [12,189 bytes] Balatro (Talk | contribs) (New page: Most of the food produced nowadays in the industrialized world comes from large centralized farms that focus on a small number of crops or animals. These agricultural systems require a con...)
- 20:14, 5 May 2010 Open collaborative design/Who contributes? (hist) [1,520 bytes] Balatro (Talk | contribs) (New page: Anyone who has the desire can contribute. In practice, collaborative projects usually attract a core of dedicated, passionate amateurs with an interest in the relevant subject. Everyone (o...)
- 20:59, 3 May 2010 Automated transport systems/Sections (hist) [23 bytes] Balatro (Talk | contribs) (New page: {{Main navbar}} __TOC__)
- 20:34, 3 May 2010 Automated transport systems/Personal Rapid Transit (hist) [2,331 bytes] Balatro (Talk | contribs) (New page: Imagine you need to get across town for a party. You leave your house and walk along a tree-lined pedestrian avenue. Overhead is a light, silent monorail with pods zipping along it. After ...)
- 17:09, 28 April 2010 Open Source Medicine/Intro (hist) [1,211 bytes] Balatro (Talk | contribs) (New page: Unbelievably, it takes 10-15 years for a drug to go from development to availability. <sup>[http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/ServeFileResource.aspx?4000001258]</sup><sup>[http://pinkar...)
- 05:17, 28 April 2010 Post-scarcity/How do we get from here to there? (hist) [8,871 bytes] Balatro (Talk | contribs) (New page: In a sentence: by increasing the amount of physical goods and information available for free until it makes no sense for anyone to keep the scarcity-based economy in existence. Imagine a ...)
- 03:15, 28 April 2010 List of open-source hardware (hist) [3,448 bytes] Balatro (Talk | contribs) (New page: One open resource vital to an economy of abundance would be vast libraries of machines and components. These are des...)
- 21:39, 27 April 2010 Open collaborative design/Open Source Scientific Research (hist) [77 bytes] Balatro (Talk | contribs) (New page: http://sciencecommons.org/)
- 20:02, 26 April 2010 Advanced automation/Robotics (hist) [1,286 bytes] Balatro (Talk | contribs) (New page: * Automated construction of buildings * Mass construction of useful machines (i.e. what robots are already used for) * Menial tasks like cleaning. Robotic vacuum cleaners, for example, alr...)
- 18:51, 26 April 2010 Automated transport systems/Automated, zero-emissions ships (hist) [3,152 bytes] Balatro (Talk | contribs) (New page: 90% of international trade is moved by ship<sup>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipping]</sup>, so automated shipping is a huge key to an automated infrastructure. Luckily ships, like trai...)
- 03:37, 25 April 2010 Carbon nanotubes (hist) [3,468 bytes] Balatro (Talk | contribs) (New page: Carbon nanotubes are a substance made from carbon atoms bound together like this {{em}} 400px They have a lot of very interesting and very, very usefu...)
- 01:21, 24 April 2010 Food/Aquaculture and aquaponics (hist) [4,377 bytes] Balatro (Talk | contribs) (New page: [http://www.thegreencenter.net/ The New Alchemy Institute] did a lot of research into aquaculture - small scale production of fish for eating. They found that a fish tank five feet in diam...)
