Mega-project

Mega-projects are large scale national or international projects. They usually have a specific goal and often require developing new technologies or even fields of science. Mega-projects are similar to Wonders of the World as portrayed in Civilisation.

Past mega-projects

 * 2,500 BCE Egyptian pyramids.
 * 2,200 BCE Sumerian ziggurats.
 * 200 BCE Great Wall of China.
 * Transatlantic telephone cable.
 * 1825 The Erie Canal
 * 1914 The Panama Canal - involved moving more mass of raw material than any other project ever built by humans.
 * 1956-1992 Interstate Highways.
 * 1969 Apollo 11 Moon Landing.
 * 2003 Human Genome Project.
 * The Internet

Current mega-projects

 * Nasa Space program.
 * International Space Station (ISS)
 * International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER).
 * RoboCup project (TBD 2050)
 * [Hadron Collider]

Possible future mega-projects

 * Human Cognome Project
 * Proteome project
 * Solar Space Colonization
 * Reversing Global Warming.
 * Space elevator
 * Terraforming MarsLuna and/or Venus.
 * Interstellar Space Colonization.
 * Dyson Sphere

Promising technologies
These are similar to mega-projects in that they give high payoff and can be accelerated now by an appropriate R&D investment. They don't necessarily produce a large impressive "artefact", however. :)


 * 1) Nanotechnology
 * 2) Artificial Intelligence -
 * 3) Renewable Energy
 * 4) Genetic engineering
 * 5) handheld water purification
 * 6) The Thousand Dollar Genome
 * 7) $100 laptop
 * 8) Fuel cells

http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/?p=12

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Links

 * Enlarge Our Minds to an Idea that is Out of This World - an interesting comparision of a Erie Canal project with a Space Elevator project.
 * Watch Bill Clinton talk in this video (about 30% in) about $3bn in civilian research to get nano.
 * Лукьянец тоже пишет о мегапроектах (RUS): http://www.transhumanism-russia.ru/content/view/207/116/
 * Megastructures are one type of mega-project.


 * Megascales