These are some of my favorite topics in the area of more tradititional science...:
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
(Lenat's) Cycorp, Inc.
The Outsider's Guide to Artificial Intelligence
ARTIFICIAL LIFE
Titus Brown's ALife Resources
CELLULAR AUTOMATA
Don Hopkins (SimCity; Cellular Automata; ScriptX; Bounce (visual programming) )
Paul Callahan's Page of Conway's Life Miscellany
Titus Brown's CA Resources
NANOTECHNOLOGY
(Extremely futuristic molecular manipulation!)
Nanotech update Tue Nov 25, 1997
META-ULTRA-HYPNO-QUBISTIC FRINGE
Shamayana