I'm still trying to let my schedule settle back to a more regular pace so I can post my regular insightful articles. Unfotunately today is not that day. But I've got a few links I've been saving.

AP News -- 'Robots take on social tasks', an article about the current hopeful market for robotics; Moving from the Roomba to more advanced household and hospital helpers.

The National Space Society has an informative article on the history of the L5 society. The L5 society was started by Gerard K. O'Neill and others with the intention to put human space colonies at L5. L5 and L4 are spots in earth orbit that a mass can orbit indefinitely without expending energy. The L5 society envisioned space colonies that were large bio-sphere's, spinning in order to create an artificial gravity. The space colonies would have provided solar power to earth, among other economic activities. NSF funding for research projects, most notably the Solar Power Satellite project, stopped in 1981.

Keith Henson talks with RU Sirius in this interview for 10 Zen Monkeys. Keith Henson was recently in the news for being a 'Scientology Fugitive'. He evidently was in some trouble with the law caused by some tiff he was in with a Scientologist. More information on the arrest from 10 Zen Monkeys

Interestingly, Keith Henson was also the co-founder of the L5 society and involved with a group called the Extropy Institute. Both were ill fated groups, but they achieved a certain level of press during the 70's and 80's.