Websites Focused on Emerging Technologies and the Study of the Future

http://nanodot.org/topics.shtml—The Foresight Institute’s nanodot.org website has “News and Discussion of Coming Technologies” organized into topics

http://www.oricomtech.com/emerge.htm—Oricom Technologies website has organized set of links to emerging technologies

http://josephcoates.com/resources.html—Joseph Coates’ website has a list of links to Future Studies resources, including think tanks and organizations, university programs, and government sites

http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/computer/tech.htm—The Atlantic Monthly’s "Prophets of the Computer Age" links to two articles that predicted the future of computing technology

http://www.techreview.com/—Technology Review from MIT monitors emerging technologies. Search Engines for Locating Emerging Technologies

http://www.teoma.com/—Teoma’s Advanced Search pages allows optimization of search results

http://www.google.com/—Google’s Advanced Search page allows optimization of search results

http://www.scirus.com/—Scirus is labeled as a search engine "for scientific information only" but it includes science and technology Government Technology Resources

http://dtica.dtic.mil/index.html—The Defense Technical Information Center’s Manpower and Training Research Information System is one of many emerging technology websites (see http://www.dtic.mil/)

http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html—The US Patent and Trademark Office’s website offers free online patent searches to those who are willing to wade through the odd language used in patents

http://www.federallabs.org/—The Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer aims to aid the rapid integration of research and development resources within the mainstream of the U.S. economy.

http://www.autm.net/scripts/TTOffices/showunivoffices.cfm—The Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) lists University Technology Transfer Offices can be a starting point for finding university developed technologies

http://nctn.hq.nasa.gov/—The NASA Commercial Technology Network gives insight into the latest technologies developed by NASA.

http://technology.larc.nasa.gov/—The NASA Tech finder is a good site for investigating new NASA technologies. eng-eec@nsf.gov—Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers provides information on Model Partnerships, Engineering Education and Centers, Division Directorate for Engineering, National Science Foundation.

http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/theme_home5.jsp—U.S. Department of Homeland Security identifies research and technology at the cutting edge.

Science and Technology Information Services

http://www.technologyreview.com/—The MIT Technology Review is a source for detailed discussions of emerging technologies.

http://www.globaltechnoscan.com/current-issue.htm—Weekly magazine on New Technology at the Global Technoscan site keeps up with new developments in technology.

http://scitechdaily.com/—SciTech Daily is a convenient source of cross-disciplinary news for all areas of science and technology. Particularly useful are the links to many other Sci-Tech news sources on the lower left hand column of the page.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/—Another excellent source of links to daily science and technology news.

http://www.eurekalert.org/—The American Association for the Advancement of Science’s (AAAS) science news website.

http://www.sciencemag.org/—Science Magazine is the AAAS’s chief publication, which has many articles online in PDF format.

http://www.nature.com/—Nature, the UK’s equivalent to Science Magazine

http://www.darpa.mil—Technology Transition describes technologies that DARPA has developed for the Armed Services.

http://www.americanscientist.org/—American Scientist, published by Sigma Xi, contains many full text articles.

http://www.economist.com/science/—The Economist, Technology and Science section including their Technology Quarterly, which solicits newsworthy candidates for emerging technologies.

http://pubs.acs.org/cen/—Chemical and Engineering News, covers the chemical enterprise including emerging technologies.

Occupational Safety and Health Information Services

http://www2.cdc.gov/hhe/hheresult.asp/—NIOSH Health Hazard Evaluations

http://www2.cdc.gov/nioshtic-2/Nioshtic2.htm/—NIOSH information system that includes journal article and government document abstracts.

http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/97-119.html—NIOSH Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances (RTECS)