Due to warnings by Stephen Hawking and
others, the Doomsday Clock has been moved to five minutes before
midnight.
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LIFEBOAT NEWS 
May 11 -
World-renowned thinker, writer, and speaker on the future,
Joe Coates, joins our Futurists Board.
May 8 -
Fuyu Tamanoi, who has
developed
nanoimpellers which are the first demonstration of controlled and
on-demand
release of anticancer drugs using mechanized nanoparticles in living
cells, joins our Biotech/Medical Board and Nanotechnology
Board.
May 6 -
Graham K. Whitehead, author of
New Technology, New Society, joins our Futurists Board.
May 6 -
Read
issue #70 of Lifeboat News!
May 5 - Read
Brain-Computer Interfaces for Manipulating Dreams by our
Michael Anissimov.
May 5 -
Peter J.
Bentley, editor of
Evolutionary Design by Computers, joins our Robotics/AI
Board. Peter is also author of the popular science book
The Book of Numbers: The Secret of Numbers and
How They Changed the World.
May 4 -
Paul Richmond, author of
A GPU Framework for the Real-Time Simulation and Interaction of
Massive Agent Based Systems, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
May 4 -
Summer Johnson, author of
Ethics in Nanomedicine: a Needs-Assessment and Proposals
for the Future,
joins our Ethics Board.
May 4 -
Read
Science-Fiction Writers Help Government Prepare for Attacks of the
Future which describes efforts by our
Arlan Andrews,
Greg Bear, and
Jerry
Pournelle.
May 3 -
On May 31,
Daniel Dennett and
Ray Kurzweil will be speaking about
What it Means to be Human at Skirball Center, NYU which is
part of
the NY08 World Science Festival in New York City.
May 2 -
Watch
Brian Cox's TED talk
What Really Goes on at the Large Hadron
Collider.
May 1 -
Read
AI Meets the Metaverse: Teachable AI Agents Living in Virtual
Worlds by
Ben
Goertzel.
Apr 30 -
T. Randall Lee,
who coauthored
Rise of the Nanomachine: The Evolution of a Revolution in
Medicine, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
Apr 29 -
Brian H.
Wilcox, Principle Investigator, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
joins our Robotics/AI Board. He currently heads the ATHLETE project.
This ginormous robotic vehicle called ATHLETE (All-Terrain Hex-Legged
Extra-Terrestrial Explorer) measures about 7.5
meters wide, with legs more than 6 meters long. It could act
essentially like a turtle, carrying the astronauts' living quarters
around on its back.
Watch a prototype in action!
Apr 29 -
C.S. "Buzz" Holling joins our Sustainability Board. Buzz
is one of the conceptual founders of ecological economics.
Ecological economics is a transdisciplinary field of academic research
that addresses the dynamic and spatial interdependence between human
economies and natural ecosystems. Its main focus is the "scale"
conundrum: how to operate an economy within the ecological constraints
of the biosphere. Ecological economics brings together and connects
different disciplines, within the natural and social sciences but
especially between these broad areas.
Buzz also founded the
Resilience Alliance, is founding Editor-in-Chief of
Ecology and Society, and
coedited
Panarchy: Understanding Transformations in Human and
Natural Systems.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
On May 31, 2008,
Daniel Dennett and
Ray Kurzweil will be speaking about
What it Means to be Human at Skirball Center, NYU which is
part of
the NY08 World Science Festival in New York City.
Don't Panic! We have found
The Ultimate Answer to The Great Question of Life, the Universe, and
Everything. The answer is a
WorldFuture 2008 lineup with over 42 Lifeboat
Foundation Scientific Advisory Board members.
Lawrence A. Baines,
Raj Bawa,
Craig Bettles,
Peter C. Bishop,
Dennis M. Bushnell,
Josh Calder,
Arthur L.
Caplan,
José
Luis Cordeiro,
William J.
Cosgrove,
William
Crossman,
Irene
J. Dabrowski,
Yasmin Dada-Jones,
Devin Fidler,
Medard Gabel,
Ashok K.
Gangadean,
Jay Gary,
Jerry Glenn,
Ted
Gordon,
Terry Grim,
Linda Groff,
William E.
Halal,
Don
Heathfield,
Jay Herson,
Michael
Jackson,
Carl Jensen III,
Shun-jie Ji,
Tom
Lombardo,
Gary Marx,
Jim Mathews,
Kenneth L.
Nichols,
Amy Oberg,
Jonathan Peck,
John L.
Petersen,
Carrie Rathsack,
Sheila R. Ronis,
Karlin Sloan,
Rick Smyre,
Stephen F.
Steele,
Mike Treder,
Thomas F. Valone,
Verne Wheelwright,
James Wright,
Mariann
Zanardo,
and
Michael Zey
will be speaking at
WorldFuture 2008:
Seeing the Future Through New Eyes at the
Hilton Washington, Washington, D.C., from
July 26 to July 28, 2008.
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Read our
SecurityPreserver program!
Learn how we can have
technologically-enabled "radical reciprocal accountability" and
transparency protecting us from existential risks through information!
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Our
World News page has information
about
CIA Says Hackers Have Cut Power Grid: Several cities outside the
U.S.
have sustained attacks on utility systems and extortion
demands.
Read our
InternetShield
program for solutions!
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Sarah Jane Pell joins our Media & Arts Board. She
is Director/Founder of
Aquabatics Australia,
Adjunct Lecturer, School of Anatomy & Human Biology, University of
Western Australia, and Delegate to the Space
Generation Advisory Council, Hyderabad, India.
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We would like your input on our
InternetShield program.
As the Internet grows in importance, an attack on it could cause
physical as well as informational damage. An attack today on hospital
systems or electric utilities could lead to deaths. In the future an
attack could be used to alter the output that is produced by
nanofactories worldwide leading to massive deaths. |
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Carolyn L. Burke, CEO of
Integrity Incorporated, joins our
Robotics/AI Board.
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Our Scientific Advisory Board completes our
BioShield program. The BioShield goals have been endorsed by
U.S. Senator
Bill Frist,
Sun Cofounder
Bill Joy, and Futurist-Inventor
Ray
Kurzweil! |
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Julia Margo,
author of
Make
Me a Criminal: Preventing Youth Crime and
coeditor of
Politics for a New Generation,
joins our Ethics Board.
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We added a
quote by
Neil deGrasse Tyson to our Quotes page.
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Sylvia Engdahl becomes our
MySpace webmaster. She has dramatically upgraded and improved our
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