Books by Lifeboat Foundation Advisory Board members
Biotech/Medical
Brave New World? A defense of paradise-engineering by David Pearce - 2007Getting 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 - 2007The 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 - 2007Existential Risks
Classifying Extinction Risks by Michael Anissimov - 2007On the Principles of Economics & Evolution: A Survival Guide for the Inhabitants of Small Islands, Including the Inhabitants of the Small Island of Earth (5 MB PDF) by Matt Funk - 2010. The 88 MB PDF digital supplement for this report is also online.
The Principles of Economics & Evolution II: In Search of Evolutionarily Stable Banking, Finance, & Alternative Investment Strategy (14.5 MB PDF) by Matt Funk - 2010.
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 - 200823 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 Accelerating 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 - 2006The Third Generation Web is Coming by Nova Spivack - 2006
Nanotechnology
Considering Military and Ethical Implications of Nanofactory Level Nanotechnology by Brian Wang - 2006Corporate 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 - 2005Robotics/AI
The Age of Virtuous Machines by J. Storrs "Josh" Hall - 2007AI 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 - 2006Dipping 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 - 2006Screw Sustainability: The Age of the Tornado Tamers Busting the Bubble of Spaceship Earth by Howard Bloom - 2005