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. :)
# Nanotechnology
# Artificial Intelligence - 
# Renewable Energy
# Genetic engineering
# handheld water purification
# The Thousand Dollar Genome
# $100 laptop
# 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
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