have my life's work be something I believe in.

In recent years I have become involved in law studies and politics; however, these are not my natural interests; they are a reaction to government trespass of our freedoms. My true interests are science and technology. Technology can be used for good or evil (see the graphic above for technologies used by Big Brother in George Orwell’s 1984). Opponents of the Second Amendment are inclined to say that citizens do not “need” things like automatic weapons. However, the founding fathers put the Second Amendment in the constitution as a final check and balance for a government which has gone out of control.

“The strongest reason for the people to retain their right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government.”
—Thomas Jefferson

Therefore, if the government has things like automatic weapons, then the people should be able to have them as well. Technologies of interest to the government should be researched by the people in the interest of freedom also. We have to match the government’s technology for technology. Here then is a list of catagories of freedom technology corresponding to the National Critical Technologies List (http://clinton1.nara.gov/White_House/EOP/OSTP/CTIformatted/AppA/appa.html ):

• Materials Science – Substance of physical objects
1. Materials – alloys, ceramic materials, composites, electronic materials, photonic materials, high energy-density materials, highway/infrastructure materials, biocompatible materials, stealth materials, superconductors
2. Structures – aircraft structures

• Manufacturing – Producing physical objects
1. Discrete Product Manufacturing – CIM support software, equipment interoperability, intelligent processing equipment, robotics, automatic systems for facilities operations, net shape processing, rapid solidification processing
2. Continuous Process Manufacturing – catalysts, surface teatments, ultrapure refining methods, pollution avoidance, predictive process control
3. Micro/Nano Fabrication and Machining – microdevice manufacturing techniques, semiconductor manufacturing, semiconductor integration techniques, artificial structuring methods

• Information and Communications – Producing, storing, manipulating, and moving information
1. Components – high-density data storage, high definition displays, high-resolution scanning techniques
2. Communications – data compression, signal conditioning and validation, telecom/data routing
3. Computer Systems – interoperability, parallel processing
4. Information Management – data fusion, large-scale information systems, health systems and services, integrated navigation systems
5. Intelligent Complex Adaptive Systems – autonomous robotic devices, artificial intelligence
6. Sensors – physical devices, integrated signal processing
7. Software and Toolkits – education/training software, network and system software, modeling and simulation software, software engineering tools, pattern recognition, software production

• Transportation – Physically moving people and objects
1. Aerodynamics – aircraft aerodynamics, surface vehicles aerodynamics
2. Avionics and Controls – aircraft/spacecraft avionics, surface transport controls
3. Propulsion and Power – aircraft turbines, spacecraft power systems, electrically powered vehicles
4. Systems Integration – intelligent transportation systems, aircraft/spacecraft integration
5. Human Interface – human factors engineering, spacecraft life support

• Living Systems – Creating and modifying biological processes
1. Biotechnology – bioprocessing, monoclonal antibody production, protein engineering, recombinant DNA technologies, vaccines
2. Medical Technologies – health information systems/services, biocompatible materials, functional diagnostic imaging, bacterial/viral detection/screening, medical devices and equipment,
3. Agriculture and Food Technologies – sustainable agriculture production, food safety assurance, aquaculture and fisheries
4. Human Systems – advanced human-machine interfaces

• Energy – Powering the other catagories
1. Energy Efficiency – building technologies, non-IC propulsion systems
2. Energy Storage, Conditioning, Distribution and Transmission – advanced batteries, power electronics, capacitors
3. Improved Generation – gas turbines, fuel cells, next generation nuclear reactors, power supplies, renewable energy

• Environmental Quality – Dealing with environmental consequences of past, present, and future activities
1. Monitoring and Assessment – integrated environmental monitoring, remote assessment of biosystems
2. Pollution Control – pollution control
3. Remediation and Restoration – bioremediation, nuclear wastes storage/disposal

My objective is to read and research my Extrordinary Science and Tesla magazines from the now defunct Tesla Society and find out the state of each of the technologies reported in them.