KurzweilAI.net Brain Archive: Assistive Technology

Technology

Computer Aided Design (CAD)
Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI)
Computer Assisted Translation (CAT)
Cochlear Implant
Vision Chip
Retinal Implant
Reading Machine

Algorithm
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)
Bell Labs
Bioengineering
Biomolecular Nanotechnology
Biotechnology
CERN
Chernobyl
Chip
Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute
COMDEX
Computer
Consilience
The Enlightenment
Evolution
Extropian
Faust
Genetics
Gilder, George
Genetics, Nanotechnology, Robotics (GNR)
Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem
Guru
Hardware
Hillis, Daniel
Hiroshima
Hologram
Image Processing
Industrial Revolution
Internet
Invention
Joy, Bill
Kaczynski, Ted
Kay, Alan
Kurzweil, Raymond
Machine
Miniaturization
Millions of Instructions Per Second (MIPS)
Mission Critical System
MIT Medialab
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
NEC Research Institute
Network
Order
PC Expo
Personal Computer (PC)
Reverse Engineering
Robotics
Second Industrial Revolution
Semiconductor
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Singularity
Smart Weapons
Software
Substrate
Superconductivity
Tele-Immersion
Telecommunications
Transistor
Vinge, Vernor
Virtual Reality
Wetware
Wired
Wurman, Richard Saul
Xerox PARC
Information Technology (IT)
Military
Progress
Implement
Automation
Alexander's Solution
Artificial intelligence (AI)
Nanotechnology

Assistive Technology

Technology developed to assist those with impairments or disabilities, such as the Kurzweil Reading Machine for the blind.