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Books by Lifeboat Foundation Advisory Board members
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Biotech/Medical
Book Excerpts/Reviews
Cosmology
Existential Risks
Futurism
Internet
Nanotechnology
Nuclear
Robotics/AI
Space Settlement
Sustainability
BIOTECH/MEDICAL
Brave New World? A defense of
paradise-engineering
by David Pearce -
2007
Getting Ready for the Coming Bio-Economy: An Advance Survey with Ten
Practical Tips
by Scott Borg -
2000
Human Body Version 2.0
by Ray Kurzweil -
2003
Lifeboat Foundation Virgin Atlantic Report by
Lifeboat Foundation Scientific Advisory Board - 2005
Neurotechnology and Society (2010-2060) by
Zack Lynch -
2004
The Ultimate Right to Life Debate: Synthetic biologists know the
meaning of life, but do they know the meaning of synthetic biology?
by
Alan H. Goldstein - 2006
Utopian Surgery: Early Arguments Against Anesthesia in Surgery,
Dentistry, and Childbirth
by David Pearce -
2006
Want to Live Forever?
by David Brin -
2002
With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: Time for the synthetic
biology community to acknowledge three responsibilities
by Roger Brent - 2006
BOOK EXCERPTS/REVIEWS
A Beginner's Guide to Immortality
by
Clifford A.
Pickover - 2007
The Age of Virtuous Machines by
J. Storrs "Josh" Hall - 2007
It Takes a Giant Cosmos to Create Life and Mind
by
James Gardner - 2007
Kinds of Minds by
J. Storrs "Josh" Hall - 2007
The Survival Imperative: Using Space to Protect Earth: Chapter
Eight by William E. Burrows -
2006
Technology's Promise: a Book Review
by
José Luis
Cordeiro - 2009
COSMOLOGY
It Takes a Giant Cosmos to Create Life and Mind
by
James Gardner - 2007
EXISTENTIAL RISKS
Classifying Extinction
Risks by
Michael
Anissimov - 2007
Risking Human Extinction by
John Leslie - 1999
SHOUTING AT THE COSMOS...Or How SETI has Taken a Worrisome Turn Into Dangerous
Territory
by David Brin -
2006
Warning Signs for Tomorrow
by Anders
Sandberg -
2006
Welcome to the Age of Weapons Containment
by George Dvorsky -
2006
FUTURISM
10 Futuristic Materials
by
Michael
Anissimov - 2008
23 Things Science Can Tell Us about Life, the Universe, and
Everything by
Daniel D. Brown - 2008
Brain-Computer
Interfaces for Manipulating Dreams
by
Michael
Anissimov - 2008
Immortalist
Utilitarianism
by
Michael
Anissimov - 2004
Law of Acclerating Returns
by Ray Kurzweil -
2001
Must-know terms for the 21st Century
Intellectual
by George Dvorsky -
2007
Singularities and Nightmares: Extremes of Optimism and Pessimism
About the Human Future
by David Brin -
2006
Sir Arthur C. Clarke in 3001: Don't Panic!
by
José Luis
Cordeiro - 2008
The Strategic
Brain by Natasha Vita-More -
2005
Technological
Evolution
by
José Luis
Cordeiro - 2006
Top Ten Cybernetic Upgrades Everyone
Will Want
by
Michael
Anissimov - 2007
Top Ten Transhumanist
Technologies
by
Michael
Anissimov - 2007
Warning Signs for Tomorrow
by Anders
Sandberg -
2006
What are the Benefits of Mind Uploading? by
Michael Anissimov -
2009
INTERNET
Minding the Planet: The Meaning and Future of
the Semantic Web by
Nova Spivack - 2006
The Third Generation Web is Coming by
Nova Spivack - 2006
NANOTECHNOLOGY
Considering Military and Ethical Implications of Nanofactory Level
Nanotechnology by
by Brian Wang
- 2006
Corporate
Cornucopia: Examining the Special Implications of Commercial MNT
Development
by Michael
Vassar - 2006
First-Stage Nanoproducts and Nanoweaponry
by
Michael
Anissimov - 2006
Flexible Automated Manufacturing by
Michael Vassar - 2004
I, Nanobot
by
Alan H. Goldstein - 2006
Molecular Manufacturing: Too Dangerous to Allow? by
Robert A. Freitas Jr. -
2006
The (Needed) New Economics of Abundance by
Steve Burgess -
2006
Some Limits to Global Ecophagy by Biovorous Nanoreplicators, with
Public Policy Recommendations by
Robert A. Freitas Jr. -
2000
NUCLEAR
Crash Test
Cities: Protecting Against Nuclear Blasts and Other Disasters
by Wil McCarthy - 2005
ROBOTICS/AI
The Age of Virtuous Machines by
J. Storrs "Josh" Hall - 2007
AI and Sci-Fi: My, Oh, My!
by
Robert J.
Sawyer - 2002
AI Meets the Metaverse: Teachable AI Agents Living in Virtual
Worlds by
Ben Goertzel -
2007
Can a machine be conscious? How? by
Stevan
Harnad - 2003
Jurisprudence of Artilects: Blueprint for a Synthetic
Citizen by Frank W. Sudia, JD -
2004
Kinds of Minds by
J. Storrs "Josh" Hall - 2007
What are the Benefits of Mind Uploading? by
Michael Anissimov -
2009
SPACE SETTLEMENT
Achieving Human Commitment to Space Colonization: Is Fear the
Answer? by
Sylvia Engdahl
- 2006
Dipping a Toe into the Sea
of
Space: Are we
Columbus or Erikson?
by Gregory
Benford - 2005
Space: A Moral Vacuum? by Jeff Krukin - 2005
The Survival Imperative: Using Space to Protect Earth: Chapter
Eight by William E. Burrows -
2006
Why the Moon? Human survival! by Robert Shapiro - 2007
SUSTAINABILITY
Energy 2020: A Vision of the Future —
A report retrieved from the year 2020 via a wormhole.
by
José Luis
Cordeiro - 2006
Screw Sustainability: The Age of the Tornado Tamers Busting the
Bubble of Spaceship Earth by
Howard Bloom -
2005
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