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General Technics
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General Technics is an informal organization started in the mid-1970s by a handful of Midwestern college students with a common interest in hard science fiction, the hard sciences, and engineering. Since its founding, General Technics has grown to have an active globally-distributed membership. The name is used with kind permission by , the author of Stand on Zanzibar, in which General Technics features prominently as a globe-spanning high-tech corporation. Members of GT include: *animators, astronomers, astrophysicists, and attorneys *biochemists, bookkeepers, and biotechnology researchers *cartographers, celestial mechanics, certified mining engineers, computer scientists, and cryptographers *engineers and entrepreneurs *homemakers *librarians and linguists *oceanographers and open source evangelists *physicians, physicists, programming language experts, psychologists, and pyrotechnicians *race car drivers and radiology technicians *spacecraft propulsion experts and students *veterinarians and videographers Membership in General Technics was augmented by recognition of mutual interests with Michigan Technological University's Permanent Floating Riot Club, a name taken from a Larry Niven hard-SF short story about Flash Crowds. The "GT List" (by invitation) serves as a means for ongoing communication and to foster a sense of community. In addition to academic credentials and academic or business careers, most GTers are known by their willingness and enthusiasm to reduce their interests to practice through hands-on work. Some notable accomplishments of GT members include: *Holding "Build a Blinky" outreach events *Voting on whether Pluto should remain a planet *Two members were mentioned in Dan Brown's "Da Vinci Code" *Designing and building remotely-piloted and autonomous submarines *Developing autonomous navigation systems for interplanetary spacecraft *Organizing, running, and competing in Midwestern robotics competitions *Steering and colliding particle beams in the world's most energetic particle accelerator *Building kitchen-oil - based diesel vehicle on The Learning Channel's "Escape from Experiment Island" See Also
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