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Energy and Light
Alternative Energy page • Institute for Energy Research •
SpaceTechnology
Great mambo chicken and the transhuman condition (strange technology dept.), Martian Chronicle: From Earth to Mars…, Prospects for Space Tourism, Take a tour with Interglobal Space Lines…, Can only governments get us into space? See John Jewkes, Sources of Invention, The Starship Private Enterprise, Frontiers: Last, Lost, and Found, A Space Pyramid?
Plains, Trains, & Automobiles
Airplanes: Govt.-backed Langley vs. Wright Brothers. Aircars: Paul Moller’s Skycar. Airships: The Great Airship Race (the R100 vs. R101), Automobiles: Economics and American History: For and Against Preston Tucker: The Man and His Dream, Paul Moller’s Skycar. Steamships: Vanderbilt & Collins Race the Atlantic. New American Industrial Policy
Tech: Good or Bad
Are Synthetic Chemicals Bad? Tech page: Technology: Good, Bad Or…? UIL Spring 2001 LD debate topic: “Resolved: Increased reliance on technology undermines the quality of life in America.” Click here for page of research links on UIL technology topic, Technology and Happiness, Too Much Entertainment Technology? Essay on UIL Technology topic
Privacy Technology
New! NCPA Privacy & Technology study, The Reinvention of Privacy: It used to be that business and technology were considered the enemies of privacy. Not anymore. (Atlantic Monthly cover story)
Texas World!
Too many people on Earth? Perhaps they would all be better off in Texas..., 5,999,999,999 and Counting
Biotechnology
A look at the “Frankenfoods Frenzy” (Reason Online)
Medical Technology
The stressful story of discovering the cause of ulcers (illustrated!), FDA and new medical device technology: Anti-FDA Cato Study, Pro-FDA page from FDA,
Sources of Invention
Entrepreneurial Sources of Invention (lecture notes) Full text of John Jewkes essay, “The Sources of Invention” from Essays on Liberty, Vol IV.
Environmental Technology
Articles on environmental issues, Julian Simon page, Economics of Renewable Energy, New!Alaska oil fields and caribou
Antitrust & Monopoly
FEE Student Seminar: Is Antitrust Anticompetitve? Seattle April 20-21, Breaking Up Antitrust, The Failure of Antitrust Policy, Unions and Antitrust, The Ghost of Rockefeller, The Rhetoric of Antitrust, The Butter Monopoly?, Microsoft and Consumers, Merger Policy Fails Hi-Tech Test, The Irresistible Force of Market Competition, “Lock-in” theory is dead wrong, Barbarians at Bill Gates, Philosophy Behind Microsoft Trial
Airships & Oceans
Airships: Capitalism vs. Socialism in The Great Airship Race, The Baron’s Big Balloon: A German aristocrat-businessman is relaunching the age of the airship, armed with millions in the bank and a team of crack engineers. Can superblimps rise again? (Wired article)., Airships: A brief history. Build your own (small) airship.
Ocean enterprises: Welcome to Oceania! Dealing with an iron-poor ocean, “Give me a half-tanker of iron, and I’ll give you an ice age” (Scientific American “Fertilizing the Sea” article), Fishing for Markets Regulation and Ocean Farming (Cato Institute article)
The Sources of Invention by John Jewkes
Too Much Entertainment Technology?
Great mambo chicken and the transhuman condition (strange technology dept.)
Environment
Economic Thinkings Environment page
Living Machines Tackle River Pollution (wired.com)
Making Environmental Trade-Offs by Doug Bandow
Harvard CID Economics and Malaria page
Click to go to John Tierney’s Martian Chronicle article. 
The Future and Its Enemies by Virginia Postrel
Amazing story of technology replentishing and expanding Earth’s supply of natural resources…Jan. 2001 Atlantic Monthly
John Tierney’s Martian Chronical article in Reason Magazine.
The Future and Its Enemies, by Virginia Postrel