Technologies

“Technology ("science of craft", from Greek τέχνη, techne, "art, skill, cunning of hand"; and -λογία, -logia|) is the collection of techniques, skills, methods, and processes used in the production of goods or services or in the accomplishment of objectives, such as scientific investigation.”

~ Wikipedia on technology

This article aims to gather tech relevant for the well being of the populations and the planet. Technology can be used for good and evil this is a good reason to keep up-to-date on the problems and opportunities and good solutions.

Consumerium tech

See systems selections for newest going ons

• Debian GNU/Linux LAMP virtual private servers-from-cloud
• w:shell (computer), shell tools, shell script, w:secure shell, w:public key cryptography,w:private key cryptography
• Core MediaWiki and it's categories, templates, extra namespaces, extensions and widgets, mw:Universal Language Selector
• w:Xen and w:KVM w:virtualization by the hosting guys ( ecological )
• DBpedia & Wikidata, w:SPARQL queries to query RDF subject/predicate/object w:triplets that are safely stored in a w:Triplestore
• w:Wikiteam backs up wikis, XML Import-Export
• Security, backups on dumps.consumium.org, backups on archive.org courtesy of w:Wikiteam, off-line backups on removable media and other storage w:mysqldump, Special:Export, w:anachronistic scheduler, rsync-over-ssh, w:Tripwire, w:GPG, w:MD5, w:HTTPS, triple security
• Networking, TCP/IP, w:VPN, w:VNC, closed w:subnet, w:iptables firewall
• Languages, w:PHP, w:python, w:perl, w:regex, SPARQL, Français, SQL, XML, RDF ...
• Stats, w:analog (program), hosting guys' stats, historical stats, http://stats.consumium.org potentially a breadcrumbs solution
• Internet Relay Chat - RecentChanges irc feeds - RecentChanges regex stalk irc feeds with BetaCommandBot or similar - ircbot/mediawikibot integration -> ConsUtilityBot ( probably in w:python based on the pyWikipediaBot framework )

Automation

“Automation is the technology by which a process or procedure is performed with minimal human assistance.”

~ Wikipedia on automation

Automated locking system makes bikesharing efficient.

AI

“Artificial intelligence (AI), sometimes called machine intelligence, is intelligence demonstrated by machines, in contrast to the natural intelligence displayed by humans and animals. Colloquially, the term "artificial intelligence" is used to describe machines that mimic "cognitive" functions that humans associate with other human minds, such as "learning" and "problem solving".”

~ Wikipedia on AI

AI is can be divided to multiple subfields:

• w:Machine learning (ML) is the scientific study of w:algorithms and w:statistical models that w:computer systems use to effectively perform a specific task without using explicit instructions, relying on patterns and inference instead. ( Wikipedia )
  • w:Deep learning
  • w:Supervised learning
  • w:Unsupervised learning

• w:Natural language processing (NLP) is a subfield of w:computer science, information engineering, and w:artificial intelligence concerned with the interactions between computers and human (natural) languages, in particular how to program computers to process and analyze large amounts of w:natural language data. ( Wikipedia )
  • w:Information extraction
  • w:Statistical classification
  • w:Machine translation
  • w:Question answering
  • w:Natural-language generation

• w:Expert system is a computer system that emulates the decision-making ability of a human expert. ( Wikipedia )

• w:Computer vision
  • Image recognition
  • w:Machine vision

• w:Speech
  • w:Speech recognition
  • w:Speech synthesis

• w:Automated planning and scheduling
• w:Robotics

Ecological tech

There are various interesting ecological technologies being piloted.

Hydrogen purified steel

HYBRIT an abbreviation of HYdrogen BReakthrough Ironmaking Technology, where iron for steel making is not purified by a process called coking, but instead using massive amounts of hydrogen to purify it.

w:SSAB and partners are building a small-scale pilot production line in Luleå, Sweden, slated to be launched in 2020.

• Official HYBRIT development website for more info.

Food from air and electricity

In Finland Solar Foods Ltd. has demonstrated making protein called Solein with renewable electricity and CO2 as raw material and are building their first real plant soon.

Water demand of this new method is fraction of plant-based nutrition, let alone meats and it is slightly CO2 negative if the electricity is not from CO2 emitting power plants.

• Solar Foods Ltd. official website

• YLE (Finnish public broadcasting corporation) reporting on Solein: Finnish breakthrough: Making protein out of thin air and electricity (2017)
• The Guardian reporting on 'Plan to sell 50m meals made from electricity, water and air' (2019)

Hemp tech

Hemp wood

From seed to building material in less than a year is a reality in Kentucky as the first HempWood factory has opened. HempWood is said to have slightly better characteristics than oak.

• 'Oak is Out, Hemp is in – HempWood Factory Opens in Kentucky'