Summary of the Year 2004

News:
2004 - Wikipedia
2004 Year-End Google Zeitgeist
Special Report - CNN

Tragedy:
The South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami

Lists:
500 lists - Fimoculous.com

Technology:
The Top Tech Stories of 2004 - Yahoo News
The Tech Year So Far - Dan Gillmor
A Year of Innovations - Business Week
A Look Back - John Battelle's Searchblog

Blogs:
2004 Year in Review - Intelliseek's BlogPulse

Links:
The Best Links 2004 - kottke.org

Search:
Top Searches 2004 - Yahoo
2004 Searches - AOL
Web's Most Wanted 2004 - Lycos

Media:
Top CyberJournalist stories of 2004

Trends:
What's The Buzz? - Clickz

People:
2004 Global Business Influentials - CNN

Space:
2004: The Year Space Tourism Finally Took Off - Space.com

Video:
Space - Rocketboom
Internet - Rocketboom

Audio:
The Gillmor Gang - IT Conversations

Brands:
Image Winners - USA Today

Books:
Best Science Books of 2004 - Paul Kedrosky
Barron's 25 Best Books of 2004 - Seeking Alpha

Science:
The top 10 news stories of 2004 - New Scientist

The South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami

News:
Wikinews
Google News
Topix.net
BBC News
Yahoo News
Guardian

Wikipedia:
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake
Tsunami

Blogs:
The Southeast-Asia Tsunami & Earthquake blog
Quake, tsunami blogger roundup - CyberJournalist.net
Technorati
Daypop
Instapundit
Boing Boing
Screenshots

Images:
Flickr
BBC News
The Killer Wave - PunditGuy

Video:
The Jason Calacanis Weblog
Cheese and Crackers
Rocketboom
Contemporary Insanity
Waxy.org

Audio:
NPR
How the Earthquake affected Earth - NASA

Help:
Tsunami Relief - Google

Survivors:
Evelyn Rodriguez
Asia Disaster Survivor: Happy to be Alive - Sofia News Agency
Scenes from a disaster - Guardian

Opinion:
Daily Tsunamis - Emergic.org

Future:
The Tsunami Next Time - WorldChanging

See also:
How Earthquakes Work - Howstuffworks

The Interactive Future

"A two-day explosion of interactive sight, sound and technology from the student artists and innovators at ITP."
Link
Source: Tisch School of the Arts at NYU

Video:
Rocketboom

See also:
Multimedia - Wikipedia

Flying and Innovation

What do Adam Curry, Richard Branson, Larry Ellison, Marc Pincus, Jeremy Zawodny, Nova Spivack, John Robb, Doug Kaye, Joe Kraus, Philip Greenspun and Eric Schmidt have in common?

1. They have terrific ideas.
2. They love flying. They are pilots. All of them!

See also:
Innovation - Wikipedia
Flight - Wikipedia
Aviator - Wikipedia
IdeaFlow - Corante
Innovation Weblog

Museum of the Future

"The DaVinci Institute has set its sights on creating a museum of future inventions designed around our pursuit of inventions that will create a spot in the history books for people who develop them. The museum will be composed of multiple pavilions, each with its own scientific concentration, sponsored by businesses from around the world."
Link
Source: The DaVinci Institute

See also:
Museum of the Future - Slashdot
Science Fiction Museum
Future - Wikipedia
Futurology - Wikipedia
Timeline of the future in forecasts - Wikipedia
Science fiction - Wikipedia

Lifetime Digital Memory -2

What's the next big thing? Videoblogging?
Videoblogging - Wikipedia
Videoblogging - Yahoo Groups

What about Lifetime Digital Memory?
http://divedi.blogspot.com/2004/06/lifetime-digital-memory.html

Blogs + Email + IM + Social Networks + Social Bookmarks + Wiki + Photos + Audioblogging + Videoblogging = Lifetime Digital Memory

See also:
The New Moore's Law
Digital Lifestyle Aggregation - Google Search
Web 2.0
Semantic Web - Wikipedia
The Future of Information Architecture - Christina Wodtke
The BitTorrent Effect - Wired
Eric Rice
PVRblog

Discuss:
Social software intellectuals - Tribe.net

Audio:
Gordon Bell - MyLifeBits and the Memex Vision - IT Conversations

Google Library

John Battelle reports:
"Google is working with Stanford, the University of Michigan, Harvard, Oxford, and the New York Public Library to make millions of books available in its index."
Link
Source: John Battelle's Searchblog

Google vs. Amazon?

See also:
Search Engine Watch
Google Blog
Google Print
Google News - WebmasterWorld
Google Library - Google News
Google - Topix.net
Search Engines - Topix.net
Online search engines news - Moreover
Digital library - Wikipedia
Amazon.com - Wikipedia

Summary of the Week

"The week of December 6, 2004: Startups are worth their salt, gas-guzzling economies to take another hit, router whiz Tony Li rejoins Cisco, and rumors of the next iPod hatch."
Link
Source: Red Herring

Google Zeitgeist
Link

See also:
Week at a Glance - BBC News
Trends - BlogPulse
Yahoo Buzz Index
Daypop Top 40 Links
Technorati
Blogdex

Google Suggest

Google has a new suggestion:

"What is Google Suggest?
As you type into the search box, Google Suggest guesses what you're typing and offers suggestions in real time."
Link
Source: Google Labs

See also:
Google Suggest - Google News
InsideGoogle
John Battelle's Searchblog
Google Blog
Google Blogoscoped
Google Suggest - WebmasterWorld
Suggested Search - Davenetics
Google - Topix.net
Search Engine News - Topix.net

Art Mobs

iPods + Mobile Phones + Smart Mobs = Art Mobs

Link
[via Marc Canter]

Audio:
EventLab - Corante

Video:
Rocketboom

See also:
Smart Mobs - Wikipedia
Mobile Phone - Wikipedia
Podcasting - Wikipedia

The Future of the Car - 2

"Toyota has announced a concept vehicle that is intended to provide a form of personal mobility that 'seeks to attain a greater balance' for individuals who want to enjoy freedom of movement, harmony with society, and harmony with the Earth's natural environment. This accomplished by supporting the union of the driver and the vehicle."
Link
Source: Space.com

See also:
More pics of Toyota's i-unit personal mobility vehicle - Engadget
The Future of the Car
The Future of Aviation
The Future of Travel
Cyborg - Wikipedia

Living Forever?

"Life expectancy is increasing in the developed world. But Cambridge University geneticist Aubrey de Grey believes it will soon extend dramatically to 1,000. Here, he explains why."

Dr Aubrey de Grey says:
"Ageing is a physical phenomenon happening to our bodies, so at some point in the future, as medicine becomes more and more powerful, we will inevitably be able to address ageing just as effectively as we address many diseases today.

I claim that we are close to that point because of the SENS (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence) project to prevent and cure ageing.

It is not just an idea: it's a very detailed plan to repair all the types of molecular and cellular damage that happen to us over time."
Link
Source: BBC News
[via Geek News Central]

The Prophet of Immortality
"Controversial theorist Aubrey de Grey insists that we are within reach of an engineered cure for aging. Are you prepared to live forever?"
Link
Source: Popular Science
[via AlwaysOn]

Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever
"Immortality is within our grasp . . .In Fantastic Voyage, high-tech visionary Ray Kurzweil teams up with life-extension expert Terry Grossman, M.D., to consider the awesome benefits to human health and longevity promised by the leading edge of medical science--and what you can do today to take full advantage of these startling advances. Citing extensive research findings that sound as radical as the most speculative science fiction, Kurzweil and Grossman offer a program designed to slow aging and disease processes to such a degree that you should be in good health and good spirits when the more extreme life-extending and life-enhancing technologies--now in development--become available. This bridge to the future will enable those who dare to make the journey from this century to the next . . . and beyond."
Link

Audio:
The Long Now Foundation: library

See also:
Transhumanism - Wikipedia
Immortality Institute
KurzweilAI.net
Fundamental limitations on 21st century biotechnology