User:Theflyer

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1 Goals
- 1.1 Projects in which I participate
- 1.2 To do
2 Singularity approaching?
3 Reference pages and tools
4 Templates
- 4.1 Tools

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[edit] Goals

My primary goals on Wikipedia are to fully develop the Lake George (Anoka County) page by engaging the residents of the lake and others with knowledge of the lake's history. Other than that, I generally flitter about the space. I'm particularly interested in improving linkages between articles.

My sandbox: User:Theflyer/Sandbox
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[edit] Projects in which I participate

disambiguated links related to catchment area. (completed 14 Jan 07)
currently disambiguating links to escort. (well, this was my intent, have been too busy to work this issue. Theflyer 14:53, 20 January 2007 (UTC))

[edit] To do

Convert external link on National Cancer Act of 1971 on the National Cancer Institute page to an internal link by creating at least a stub from info on external link. Then make sure List of United States federal legislation and the 1937 National Cancer Institute Act are all linked as appropriate.

[edit] Singularity approaching?

[edit] Singularity pages

Ray Kurzweil's knowledge base
see Technological singularity for differing views about Ray's projections.

[edit] Key graphics

Ray Kurzweil's "Countdown to Singularlity" plotted on a logarithmic scale.	Same plot of key events but on a linear scale.
When plotted on a logarithmic graph, 15 separate lists of paradigm shifts for key events in human history show an exponential trend. Lists prepared by, among others, Carl Sagan, Paul D. Boyer, Encyclopædia Britannica, American Museum of Natural History and University of Arizona, compiled by Ray Kurzweil. See also: Accelerating change.	Exponential growth in supercomputer power

[edit] Examples

2006: "Jet man": using "Model airplane" jet engines to fly.
28 December 2006: Washingtonpost article on how people are starting to become emotionally attached to their Roombas.
2006: for $2M a private entrepreneur builds a submarine called Alicia with 350 meter depth capability and all acrylic passenger compartment for six people. See the NOVA special on Alicia and the Alica webpage.