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LIFEBOAT FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES TRIPLE PARTNERSHIP
Abstract
The Lifeboat Foundation announces a triple partnership including the
Lifeboat Foundation, Nanotech-Now, and The American Journal of
Bioethics.
Story
January 16, 2009 -
The Lifeboat Foundation has activated a triple partnership including the
Lifeboat Foundation,
Nanotech-Now, and
The American Journal of
Bioethics.
The Lifeboat Foundation is launching a monthly column
addressing the
ethical issues that scientists and
consumers of nanotechnology will face. Its column editor is
Lifeboat Foundation Scientific Advisory Board member
Summer
Johnson, who is Executive Managing Editor of
The American Journal of
Bioethics and
Chief Operating Officer,
Bioethics Education Network.
Summer says
"The literature in this area is not growing at nearly 1/10th
of the pace of the nanoscience literature itself and it is my belief
that ethicists, scientists, and lay people should be aware of these
issues (sooner rather than later)."
Summer wrote the first column which has now been
published! The next three columns will be authored by the Lifeboat
Foundation's
Bob Krone,
Tom Powers,
and
Tihamer T.
Toth-Fejel.
Nanotech-Now has agreed to run this column. They will give the
column front
and center placement once a month for 24 hours then a rotation down the
homepage as their other columns load their articles. Google News indexes
their columns every 15 minutes.
The American Journal of Bioethics and its website, bioethics.net
are
also sponsoring the column by featuring it on their website as well as
their blog.
In addition, for each column, they will coordinate the production of an
accompanying podcast by the author discussing the column which will be
hosted on their website,
podcast.bioethics.net.
Bioethics.net has approximately 22 million viewers per year and
podcast.bioethics.net, started just last year, averaged 20,000
downloads per podcast in 2008. They have the technological capacity to
do these podcasts with authors around the country and make them
available 24/7. Soon they will have a site via Beyond Campus on iTunes
University where they will transfer all of this material and repost it
as a channel accessible to all via iTunes or RSS feed on bioethics.net.
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About Lifeboat Foundation
The Lifeboat Foundation is a nonprofit nongovernmental organization
dedicated to encouraging scientific advancements while helping humanity
survive existential risks and possible misuse of increasingly powerful
technologies, including genetic engineering, nanotechnology, and
robotics/AI, as we move towards a technological
singularity.
Contacts:
Lifeboat Foundation News office
1638 Esmeralda Avenue
Minden, NV 89423, USA
+1 775-329-0180
press@lifeboat.com
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