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D-Lib 
Magazine
, July–August 1998. Stewart Brand writes: "Behind every hot new working computer is a 
trail of bodies of extinct computers, extinct storage media, extinct applications, extinct files. 
Science fiction writer Bruce Sterling refers to our time as 'the Golden Age of dead media, most of 
them with the working lifespan of a pack of Twinkles," Stewart Brand, "Written on the Wind," 
Civilization Magazine
, November 1998 ("01998" in Long Now terminology), available online at 
http://www.longnow.org/10klibrary/library.htm. 
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DARPA's Information Processing Technology Office's project in this vein is called LifeLog, 
http://www.darpa.mil/ipto/Programs/lifelog; see also Noah Shachtman, "A Spy Machine of 
DARPA's Dreams," 
Wired News
, May 20, 2003, 
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58909,00.html; Gordon Bell's project (for Microsoft) 
is MyLifeBits, http://research.microsoft.com/research/barc/MediaPresence/MyLifeBits.aspx; for 
the Long Now Foundation, see http://longnow.org. 
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Bergeron is assistant professor of anesthesiology at Harvard Medical School and the author of such 
books as 
Bioinformatics Computing
, 
Biotech Industry: A Global, Economic, and Financing 
Overview
, and 
The Wireless Web and Healthcare
. 
45.
The Long Now Foundation is developing one possible solution: the Rosetta Disk, which will 
contain extensive archives of text in languages that may be lost in the far future. They plan to use a 
unique storage technology based on a two-inch nickel disk that can store up to 350,000 pages per 
disk, with an estimated life expectancy of 2,000 to 10,000 years. See the Long Now Foundation, 
Library Ideas, http://longnow.org/10klibrary/10kLibConference.htm. 
46.
John A. Parmentola, "Paradigm Shifting Capabilities for Army Transformation," invited paper 
presented at the SPIE European Symposium on Optics/Photonics in Security and Defence, October 
25–28, 2004; available electronically at Bridge 34.3 (Fall 2004), 
http://www.nae.edu/NAE/bridgecom.nsf/weblinks/MKEZ-65RLTA?OpenDocument. 
47.
Fred Bayles, "High-tech Project Aims to Make Super-soldiers," 
USA Today
, May 23, 2003, 
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2003-05-22-nanotech-usat_x.htm; see the Institute for 
Soldier Nanotechnologies Web site, http://web.mit.edu/isn; Sarah Putnam, "Researchers Tout 
Opportunities in Nanotech," MIT News Office, October 9, 2002, 
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2002/cdc-nanotech -1009.html. 

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Ron Schafer, "Robotics to Play Major Role in Future Warfighting," 
http://www.jfcom.mil/newslink/storyarchive/2003/pa072903.htm; Dr. Russell Richards, 
"Unmanned Systems: A Big Player for Future Forces?" Unmanned Effects Workshop at the 
Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, July 29–August 1,2003. 
49.
John Rhea, "NASA Robot in Form of Snake Planned to Penetrate Inaccessible Areas," 
Military and 
Aerospace Electronics
, November 2000, 
http://mae.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=Archives&Subsection=Display&AR
TICLE_ID=86890. 
50.
Lakshmi Sandhana, "The Drone Armies Are Coming," 
Wired News
, August 30, 2002, 
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,54728,00.html. See also Mario Gerla, Kaixin Xu, 
and Allen Moshfegh, "Minuteman: Forward Projection of Unmanned Agents Using the Airborne 
Internet," IEEE Aerospace Conference 2002, Big Sky, Mont., March 2002: 
http://www.cs.ucla.edu/NRL/wireless/uploads/mgerla_aerospace02.pdf. 
51.
James Kennedy and Russell C. Eberhart, with Yuhui Shi,