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Starlab - Deep Future
June 8, 2004 - 09:00 AM
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<font><font>Starlab</font> </font>
<font>... a place where 100 years means nothing</font>
Starlab NV/SA was a privately funded, Blue Sky research institute in Brussels, Belgium. At the time of its closing on June 12, 2001, it employed over 100 scientists from more than 30 nationalities, many of them leaders in their respective fields. The range of research areas was very broad: intelligent clothing, stemcell research, emotics, transarchitecture, robotics, theoretical physics (e.g., the possibilities of time-travel), quantum consciousness, quantum computation, art, artificial brain building, new media, biophysics, materials science, protein folding and nano-electronics, to mention a few. Research was grouped within the acronym BANG - Bits, Atoms, Neurons, Genes; this combination was recently adopted at MIT.
Starlab's cross-disciplinary nature was an innovative and noteworthy effort to foster creativity among scientific researchers, and it will certainly be remembered as an original, if ambitious, dream to create a utopian scientific environment. Though Starlab's Brussels facility was closed, the http://www.starlab-bcn.com/ facility remains in operation.
Physicist Chris Duif maintains a Starlab archive at http://www.space-time.info/StarlabArchive.html.
<font>Welcome to the Deep Future</font>
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Christopher Altman
Research portfolio: http://www.umsl.edu/~altmanc/
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