By coordinating their efforts, amateur satellite spotters in Europe, North America, and South Africa can track everything government spymasters blast into orbit with the exception of the supersecret stealth satellite, codenamed Misty.
A surveillance camera that can track and analyze the movement of individual vehicles in a crowded city is being developed for the Pentagon. Despite assurances that the camera is meant only to protect troops in the field, civilian authorities will probably want to use it, too.
Gregg Easterbrook offers a skeptical guide to the most common doomsday scenarios.
Bruce Sterling analyzes the nationalist and expansionist motives driving the Indian and Chinese space programs.
Astropreneurs are counting down for a return to Apollo country. The first small step: a satellite atlas of the lunar surface. The next giant leap: ice mining, helium farming, and a launchpad to the solar system.
Advances in nanotechnology and nanotubes have brought the age-old idea of a space elevator within reach.
Wired magazine feature article on a five-step plan to convert the U.S. to a hydrogen fuel economy and the benefits from doing so.
Julian Dibbell looks at the emergence of real-world economies in the virtual worlds of Massively Multiplayer Role Playing Games (MMPORGs).
Fascinating feature article in Wired on China's plan to become the world leader in theraputic cloning research. Confucian ethics permits a more utilitarian approach to cloning than Western philosophy and Chinese government officials are eager to fill the vaccumm as Western governments race to ban all related research.
An interview with Craig J. Venter on his plans to sequence the genomes of the ocean with the goal of engineering "a new species of microorganism from scratch ? to improve metabolic function by orders of magnitude so that we can make biological CO? scrubbers for power plants."