| 05/15/08 |
Samuel H. Barondes joins our Neuroscience Board. He is the author
of
Molecules and Mental Illness,
Mood Genes: Hunting for
Origins of Mania and Depression, and
Better Than Prozac:
Creating the
Next Generation of Psychiatric Drugs.
|
| 05/14/08 |
Robert B. Cialdini joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
In the field of influence and persuasion, Bob is the most cited social
psychologist in the world today.
He authored
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion.
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| 05/14/08 |
Peter H. Kahn, Jr., author of
The Human Relationship with Nature:
Development and Culture and
Nature and Moral Development,
joins our Sustainability Board.
|
| 05/14/08 |
Li-Hai Tan, who
showed that a person dyslexic in English
may not be dyslexic in Chinese
and vice versa,
joins our Neuroscience Board.
|
| 05/13/08 |
Artificial heart pioneer
Tofy Mussivand joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
|
| 05/13/08 |
Jean-Pierre Dupuy, author of
Some Pitfalls in the Philosophical Foundations of Nanoethics
and
The Mechanization of the Mind and editor of
Self-Deception and Paradoxes of Rationality,
joins our Ethics Board.
|
| 05/13/08 |
Sonia M. Suter, author of
The Allure and Peril of Genetic Exceptionalism: Do We Need Special
Genetics Legislation?, joins our Ethics Board.
|
| 05/12/08 |
Saskia Sassen, author of
A Sociology of Globalization and
Cities in a World Economy, joins our Human Trajectories
Board.
Saskia coined the term
global city.
|
| 05/12/08 |
Anind K. Dey,
coauthor of
Managing Personal Information Disclosure in Ubiquitous Computing
Environments,
Designer Support for Context Monitoring and Control, and
SiteView: Tangibly Programming Active Environments with Predictive
Visualization, joins our Information Sciences Board.
|
| 05/11/08 |
Scott Reif, the
author of
The Future of Advanced Transportation, joins our Futurists
Board.
|
| 05/11/08 |
World-renowned thinker, writer, and speaker on the future,
Joe Coates, joins our Futurists Board.
|
| 05/08/08 |
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.
|
| 05/06/08 |
Graham K. Whitehead, author of
New Technology, New Society, joins our Futurists Board.
|
| 05/06/08 |
Read
issue #70 of Lifeboat News!
|
| 05/05/08 |
Read
Brain-Computer Interfaces for Manipulating Dreams by our
Michael Anissimov.
|
| 05/05/08 |
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.
|
| 05/04/08 |
Paul Richmond, author of
A GPU Framework for the Real-Time Simulation and Interaction of
Massive Agent Based Systems, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
|
| 05/04/08 |
Summer Johnson, author of
Ethics in Nanomedicine: a Needs-Assessment and Proposals
for the Future,
joins our Ethics Board.
|
| 05/04/08 |
Read
Science-Fiction Writers Help Government Prepare for Attacks of the
Future which describes efforts by our
Arlan Andrews,
Greg Bear, and
Jerry
Pournelle.
|
| 05/03/08 |
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.
|
| 05/02/08 |
Watch
Brian Cox's TED talk
What Really Goes on at the Large Hadron
Collider.
|
| 05/01/08 |
Read
AI Meets the Metaverse: Teachable AI Agents Living in Virtual
Worlds by
Ben
Goertzel.
|
| 04/30/08 |
T. Randall Lee,
who coauthored
Rise of the Nanomachine: The Evolution of a Revolution in
Medicine, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
|
| 04/29/08 |
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!
|
| 04/29/08 |
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.
|
| 04/28/08 |
Paul Schaudies, GenArraytion's President and Chief Executive
Officer, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
GenArraytion identifies informative biomarkers within the genomes of
organisms of interest and screens thousands of them simultaneously to
develop high fidelity signatures that provide a functionally complete
characterization. These competencies are being used to produce rapid
turn-around, accurate, reliable diagnostics for pathogen identification,
and antibiotic susceptibility characterization. Microorganism-specific
signatures provide high confidence pathogen identification and
determination of virulence mechanisms and antibiotic susceptibility in a
single test.
|
| 04/27/08 |
Robert C.
Bourge joins our Biotech/Medical Board. He is Professor of
Medicine, Radiology, and Surgery, M. G. Waters Chair of Cardiovascular
Disease, Director, Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Co-Director, The
Heart and Vascular Research Center, The University of Alabama at
Birmingham. He is also on the Editorial Board of
The Journal of Heart
and Lung Transplantation.
|
| 04/27/08 |
Beverly A. Rzigalinski, who discovered that certain nanomaterials
triple and even quadruple the life of brain cells,
joins our Biotech/Medical Board and Nanotechnology Board.
|
| 04/27/08 |
Challa
Kumar, President and CEO of
Magnano Technologies, joins our
Nanotechnology Board. Magnano Technologies is an emerging
nanotechnology company specializing in the development of nanomaterials
and nanotechnologies for life sciences. The company has expertise in
wet-chemical synthesis of a variety of nanomaterials and their
biofunctionalization for a number of applications in life sciences. In
addition to technology development, the company is also focusing on
information management and consultancy services related to
nanotechnologies for the life sciences.
Challa also authored a ten volume nanotechnology set including
Nanomaterials for Cancer Diagnosis,
Biofunctionalization of Nanomaterials, and
Nanomaterials: Toxicity, Health and Environmental
Issues.
And to top it off, he is also working on
a method to create ethanol
without the use of corn and therefore this method would
not impact food prices.
|
| 04/27/08 |
Susan
Blackmore, who presented
Memes in the Cosmos at TED 2008, joins our Neuroscience
Board. Sue also authored
Conversations on Consciousness: What the Best Minds Think about the
Brain, Free Will, and What It Means to Be Human and
The Meme Machine.
|
| 04/26/08 |
Gary Marx,
president of the Center for Public Outreach (CPO) and author of
Future-focused Leadership: Preparing Schools, Students, And
Communities
for Tomorrow's Realities, joins our Futurists
Board.
|
| 04/26/08 |
Kenneth L.
Nichols,
coauthor of
Organization Theory: A Public and Nonprofit Perspective,
joins our Futurists Board.
|
| 04/25/08 |
Listen to our
David Brin on
The
Future And You.
|
| 04/22/08 |
Thanks to financial assistance from
Joshua Fox and graphical assistance from
Tom McCabe, we now offer a white background theme on all pages.
Click on the blue button on the left that says WHITE BKG to use
this.
If you notice any problems, send an email with
the subject
"Lifeboat Foundation Web Design" to
webmaster@lifeboat.com.
|
| 04/18/08 |
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 42 Lifeboat
Foundation Scientific Advisory Board members.
Our newest member is
Carl Jensen III,
who founded the
Futures Working Group.
The Futures Working Group (FWG) is a collaboration between the FBI and
the Society of Police Futurists International (PFI). Their purpose is to
develop and encourage others to develop forecasts and strategies to
ethically maximize the effectiveness of local, state, federal, and
international law enforcement bodies as they strive to maintain peace
and security in the 21st century.
Carl spent 22 years in the FBI, 5 years in the Navy including
serving on the nuclear
fleet ballistic missile submarine USS George Washington Carver, and is
currently Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, The University of
Mississippi, with adjunct status at the RAND Corporation.
|
| 04/18/08 |
G. Ali
Mansoori, author of
Principles Of Nanotechnology: Molecular-Based
Study Of Condensed Matter In Small Systems, joins our
Nanotechnology
Board. Ali is developing
nanotechnology solutions for Alzheimer's
disease.
|
| 04/18/08 |
Win
Wenger, founder of
Project Renaissance, joins our Methods for Discovery and Solution
Finding Board which he founded. Project Renaissance
is dedicated to increasing individuals' potential and
accelerating the dawning of a new Renaissance.
|
| 04/18/08 |
Robin
Baumgarten joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Robin is the author of the blog
AI Panic, where he researches and
unveils the perils, imminence, and probabilities of a hostile takeover
of the world through artificial intelligence.
|
| 04/17/08 |
Igor Jurisica,
who
is leading the
first Canadian team to use the World Community Grid
to accelerate the war on cancer, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
The World Community Grid is a global network of
hundreds of thousands of people who volunteer their idle computer time
to tackle some of the world's most complex problems.
Our
FightAIDS@Home team also uses this resource.
|
| 04/17/08 |
Thomas F. Valone,
President of the
Integrity Research Institute and Editor of
the
Future Energy newsletter, joins our Futurists Board. He is
the 41st member of our
WorldFuture 2008 lineup.
|
| 04/16/08 |
Read
issue #69 of Lifeboat News!
|
| 04/15/08 |
Sheila R. Ronis,
author of
Timelines into the Future: Strategic Visioning Methods for
Government,
Industry and Other Organizations, joins our Futurists Board.
Sheila is also Director of the MBA/MSSL Programs at Walsh College and
is President of The University Group, a management consulting
firm and think tank specializing in strategic management, visioning,
national security, and public policy. Read
Congress Hires A Scientist To Find Out What's Really Happening To The
Defense Industrial Base.
Thanks to Sheila, our
"WorldFuture 2008: Seeing the Future Through New Eyes"
lineup has reached 40 speakers, including
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,
Shun-jie Ji,
Tom
Lombardo,
Jim Mathews,
Amy Oberg,
Jonathan Peck,
John L.
Petersen,
Carrie Rathsack,
Sheila R. Ronis,
Karlin Sloan,
Rick Smyre,
Stephen F.
Steele,
Mike Treder,
Verne Wheelwright,
James Wright,
Mariann
Zanardo,
and
Michael Zey.
|
| 04/14/08 |
Learn about an
underwater record attempt to raise awareness of Ocean conservation.
|
| 04/14/08 |
John Ringo
joins our Futurists Board. John is a New York Times bestselling author
of
science fiction and thriller novels with over one million novels in
print. He authored
Ghost and
Against the Tide, and coauthored
Von Neumann's War.
|
| 04/13/08 |
William J.
Cosgrove,
William
Crossman,
Irene
J. Dabrowski,
Devin Fidler,
Medard Gabel,
Terry Grim,
Linda Groff,
Don
Heathfield, and
Stephen F. Steele
join our
"WorldFuture 2008: Seeing the Future Through New Eyes"
lineup,
bringing us up to 39 speakers.
|
| 04/13/08 |
Terry Grim, a futurist/strategist with
Social Technologies,
joins our Futurists Board.
|
| 04/13/08 |
Devin Fidler,
author
of
Paradigm Shift Emerging in Economics, joins our Economics
Board.
|
| 04/13/08 |
Scott Shippee joins our
Rosetta@Home team.
Donate the unused CPU cycles on your computer(s) to help scientists
determine the 3-dimensional shapes of proteins in research that may
ultimately lead to finding cures for some major human diseases. By
running the Rosetta program on your computer while you don't need it you
will help speed up and extend research in ways scientists couldn't
possibly attempt without your help. You will also be helping efforts at
designing new proteins to fight diseases such as HIV, Malaria, Cancer,
and Alzheimer's.
|
| 04/12/08 |
Listen to
Greg Bear on
The Future and You.
|
| 04/12/08 |
BELLA GAIA — An Experience by
Kenji Williams will be presented at NASA Ames, SF Bay Area on April
12th from 2pm to 2 am.
Inspired by astronauts who spoke of the life changing experience of
viewing the Earth from Space, creative director and music producer
Kenji Williams delivers a live audio visual performance that evolves
our perspective of and connection to our home planet. Utilizing
stunning HD projections of orbiting visualizations of Earth from Space
accompanied by a live performance of Williams's trademark
violin-electronica music, experience the beauty and miracle of planet
earth like never before in this audio visual space show.
|
| 04/10/08 |
CeCOS II (Counter eCrime Operations Summit II) will be held in
Tokyo,
Japan from May 26 to May 27, 2008.
|
| 04/10/08 |
Irene J. Dabrowski, Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of
Sociology and Anthropology, St. John's University, joins our Futurists
Board. Irene is author of
Liberating the "Deviant" Feminist Image Through Education.
|
| 04/10/08 |
William J.
Cosgrove,
President of
Ecoconsult and coauthor of
World Water Vision: Making
Water Everybody's Business, joins our Sustainability Board.
|
| 04/09/08 |
Stephen F. Steele, who coauthored
Applied Sociology: Terms, Topics, Tools, and Tasks and
Solution-Centered Sociology: Addressing Problems through Applied
Sociology, joins our Futurists Board. Steve is
Professor of Sociology and Futures Studies, Institute for the Future,
Anne Arundel Community College.
|
| 04/09/08 |
Medard Gabel,
author of
Energy, Earth, and Everyone: A Global Energy Strategy for Spaceship
Earth, joins our Sustainability Board.
Medard worked with Buckminster Fuller for 12 years where he learned the
power and utility of whole systems thinking, global perspectives, and a
good sense of humor.
|
| 04/09/08 |
Don
Heathfield,
CEO of
Future Map,
joins our Futurists Board.
|
| 04/08/08 |
Linda Groff, author of
Future Evolution of Humanity, joins our Futurists Board.
She is also Professor, Political Science & Future Studies, California
State
University, Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA and Co-Director of
Global
Options.
|
| 04/08/08 |
William Crossman joins our Futurists Board.
The New York Daily News cited him as one of six key visionaries for the
21st Century, along with physicist Stephen Hawking, astronaut Jim
Lovell, Internet pioneer Vint Cerf, scientist Ray Kurzweil, and
bioethicist
Art Caplan.
|
| 04/08/08 |
Arthur L.
Caplan,
Ashok K.
Gangadean,
Jay Gary,
Ted
Gordon,
William E.
Halal,
Tom
Lombardo,
Jim Mathews,
Rick Smyre,
James Wright, and
Michael Zey,
join our
"WorldFuture 2008: Seeing the Future Through New Eyes"
lineup,
bringing us up to 30 speakers.
|
| 04/08/08 |
Jay Gary,
director of the School of Global Leadership and Entrepreneurship at
Regent
University, joins our Futurists Board.
|
| 04/07/08 |
Arthur L. Caplan joins our Ethics Board.
Art is the author or editor of twenty-five books and over 500 papers
in refereed journals of medicine, science, philosophy, bioethics, and
health policy.
In addition to his Ph.D., he
holds seven honorary degrees from colleges and medical schools.
His most recent book is
Smart Mice Not So Smart People:
An Interesting and Amusing Guide to Bioethics.
|
| 04/06/08 |
Michael Zey,
author of
Ageless Nation: The Quest for Superlongevity and Physical
Perfection and
The Future Factor: The Five Forces Transforming Our Lives and Shaping
Human Destiny,
joins our Futurists Board.
|
| 04/06/08 |
Ted Gordon,
Director of the
American Council for the United Nations University,
joins our Futurists Board. Ted is coauthor of
the annual
State of the Future reports with the other coauthor being our
Jerry Glenn.
|
| 04/06/08 |
Tom
Lombardo, author of
The Evolution of Future Consciousness: The Nature and Historical
Development of the Human Capacity to Think about the Future and
Doorways to the Future Methods, Theories, and Themes,
joins our Education Board, Ethics Board, and Futurists
Board.
|
| 04/06/08 |
Jim Mathews,
founder of
The Futures Network, joins our Futurists Board.
|
| 04/05/08 |
James Wright joins our Business Board. He launched
the
International Executive MBA program of the
University of São Paulo in 1992. He has now directed it
for 16 years and it is the top ranked
Executive MBA program in Brazil.
|
| 04/05/08 |
Ashok K. Gangadean,
Founder-Director of the
Global Dialogue Institute which seeks to embody
the dialogical powers of global reason in all aspects of cultural life,
joins our Ethics Board. He is author of
Meditative Reason: Toward Universal Grammar.
|
| 04/05/08 |
Rick Smyre,
President of the
Center for Communities of the Future, joins our Futurists Board.
This center is an evolving network of people and organizations
throughout the
U.S. and other countries that are working in collaboration to develop
new concepts of governance, economic development, leadership, and
education/learning for a fast-paced, interconnected, and increasingly
complex society.
|
| 04/05/08 |
William E. Halal joins our Futurists Board and Human Trajectories
Board. Macmillan's Encyclopedia of the Future listed him among "The
World's 100 Most Influential Futurists", which included H.G. Wells,
Arthur C. Clarke, Alvin Toffler, Daniel Bell, and Leonardo da Vinci.
|
| 04/02/08 |
Acclaimed science fiction author
Jerry Pournelle joins our Futurists
Board and Space Settlement Board.
Jerry wrote the "Chaos Manor" column for Byte magazine for over 20
years where he described his
experiences with computer hardware and software, was
President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America,
and coauthored
Fallen Angels,
Footfall,
Lucifer's Hammer, and
The Mote in God's Eye.
Much more than simply a science fiction writer,
Jerry earned advanced degrees in psychology, statistics,
engineering, and political science, including two PhDs.
He coauthored
The Strategy of Technology which
was required reading in the U.S. service academies during the
latter half of the Cold War.
From fighting in the Korean War as an artillery officer to
being the campaign manager of political campaigns to advising
congressional leadership on space policy to advising
the Homeland Security Department on how to combat terrorism, Jerry has
done it all!
|
| 03/30/08 |
Greg Bear joins
our Futurists Board. Greg is an American science fiction and mainstream
author who has been called the "best working writer of hard science
fiction" by The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. He has been
awarded two Hugos and five Nebulas for his fiction, one of only two
authors to win a Nebula in every category. He has served on political
and scientific action committees and has advised Microsoft Corporation,
the U.S. Army, the CIA, Sandia National Laboratories, Callison
Architecture, Inc., Homeland Security, and other groups and agencies.
Greg joins other luminaries on our Futurists Board including
Catherine Asaro,
Gregory
Benford,
Ben Bova,
David Brin,
Alan Dean Foster,
Nancy Kress,
Frederik Pohl, and
Robert
Sawyer.
|
| 03/29/08 |
Charles
Chafer,
Chief Executive Officer of
Space Services Inc., the world's leading
provider of public participation space missions, joins our Space
Settlement Board.
|
| 03/29/08 |
Peter Russell, author of
Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating
Change and
The Global Brain Awakens: Our Next Evolutionary Leap, joins
our Human Trajectories Board.
|
| 03/28/08 |
Read the
transcript of the
Michael Anissimov interview by Future
Blogger.
|
| 03/25/08 |
Our
WorldFuture 2008: Seeing the Future Through New Eyes lineup reaches
20 speakers. Our lineup includes
Lawrence A. Baines,
Raj Bawa,
Craig Bettles,
Peter C. Bishop,
Dennis M. Bushnell,
Josh Calder,
José
Luis
Cordeiro,
Yasmin Dada-Jones,
Jerry Glenn,
Jay Herson,
Michael
Jackson,
Shun-jie Ji,
Amy Oberg,
Jonathan Peck,
John L.
Petersen,
Carrie Rathsack,
Karlin Sloan,
Mike Treder,
Verne Wheelwright, and
Mariann
Zanardo.
|
| 03/25/08 |
Jonathan Peck,
President of the
Institute for Alternative Futures (IAF) and its
for-profit subsidiary,
Alternative Futures Associates (AFA),
joins our Futurists Board.
|
| 03/25/08 |
Justine
Cassell, who
developed the Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA) — a virtual
human
capable of interacting with humans using both language and nonverbal
behavior, joins our Neuroscience Board.
|
| 03/25/08 |
Listen to
Michael Anissimov's interview on
FastForward Radio.
|
| 03/24/08 |
Read
Phoenix:
Final Report by the
International Space University.
|
| 03/24/08 |
Bruce
Parkinson,
whose patents include
Semiconductor liquid junction photocell using surface modified GaAs
electrode,
Gallium arsenide devices having reduced surface recombination
velocity,
Etching of nanoscale structures, and
Fluorescent compounds for absorption and re-emission of radiation,
joins our Chemistry Board.
|
| 03/24/08 |
Mark
Wiesner, who has
designed a replacement for the decades old fuel
cell membrane design, joins our Nanotechnology Board and
Sustainability
Board.
He authored
Towards a Green Nanotechnology and coauthored
Environmental
Nanotechnology.
|
| 03/24/08 |
Ruben Nelson,
President of
Square One Management Ltd. and
The Alliance for
Capitalizing on Change,
joins our Human Trajectories Board.
|
| 03/23/08 |
Jim Rybarski joins our
FightAIDS@Home team,
using the spare clock cycles on his computer to help discover new
drugs that
fight AIDS.
|
| 03/22/08 |
Julia Margo,
author of
Make
Me a Criminal: Preventing Youth Crime and
coeditor of
Politics for a New Generation,
joins our Ethics Board.
|
| 03/22/08 |
Read
Sir Arthur C. Clarke in 3001: Don't Panic!
which contains the Arthur C. Clarke interview
by our
José Luis
Cordeiro.
Arthur C. Clarke's final novel is
The Last Theorem, coauthored with our
Frederik Pohl. It will be released late in 2008.
|
| 03/21/08 |
Listen to
Peter Norvig on
The Future And You.
|
| 03/19/08 |
Thanks to input from
Don Braben,
Laszlo Kish,
Marty McCrea, and other members of our Scientific Advisory Board, we
have now launched our ScientificFreedomShield
program.
|
| 03/19/08 |
Donald W. Braben, author of
Scientific Freedom: The Elixir of Civilization, joins our
Scientific Freedom Board which he cofounded.
|
| 03/19/08 |
Anirban Bandyopadhyay, who developed
a tiny chemical "brain" which could one day act as a remote control for
swarms of nano-machines, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
His molecular device — just two billionths of a meter across —
was
able to
control eight microscopic machines simultaneously in a test.
|
| 03/18/08 |
Frank Zeman, who has
developed a process
to remove CO2
from the air,
joins our Sustainability Board.
|
| 03/18/08 |
Craig Bettles,
futurist and researcher for the
Institute for Alternative Futures (IAF), joins our Futurists Board.
Craig
was the lead researcher and writer for IAF's bold look at the future of
biomedical R&D,
The 2029 Report: Achieving an Ethical Future for
Biomedical R&D, and will be a speaker at WorldFuture 2008.
|
| 03/17/08 |
Theoretical inventor and catalyst
Marty McCrea
joins our
Scientific Freedom Board which he cofounded.
|
| 03/16/08 |
Michael Petrascheck, who worked with
Nobel Laureate Linda Buck to
lengthen the lifespan of worms with
an antidepressant, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
|
| 03/16/08 |
Read
issue #68 of Lifeboat News!
|
| 03/16/08 |
Martin
Codrington, who presented
The Genocide of the Curious Mind at the BIL 2008 conference,
joins our Scientific Advisory Board.
|
| 03/16/08 |
Roderick Jones joins our Counterterrorism Board.
He is Vice President of Concentric Solutions International, a security
consultancy with offices in Seattle, San Francisco, and Washington DC.
Prior to this he served for eight years as a detective with Scotland
Yard's Special Branch.
|
| 03/15/08 |
Alberto Conti,
one of the creators of the
GoogleSky concept, joins our Cosmology Board.
|
| 03/15/08 |
Carrie Rathsack, who will be presenting
Change in a Digital Age: An Impetus for a Collaborative, Educative,
Democratic Future at WorldFuture 2008, joins our Education
Board.
|
| 03/14/08 |
Our
WorldFuture 2008 lineup grows with the addition of
Raj Bawa,
Peter C. Bishop,
Josh Calder,
Yasmin Dada-Jones,
Amy Oberg,
Karlin Sloan,
Verne Wheelwright, and
Mariann Zanardo.
This brings us up to 17 speakers!
|
| 03/14/08 |
Edward L. "Ned" Wright, whose research has helped
narrow the uncertainty of the age of the universe by tens of millions
of years, joins our Cosmology Board.
|
| 03/14/08 |
Athena
Andreadis
joins our blog team with her
first post.
|
| 03/13/08 |
Verne
Wheelwright, founder of the
Personal Futures Network, joins our Futurists Board. Verne is author
of
A Personal Futures Workbook and
Software for Futurists — Scanning.
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| 03/13/08 |
Josh Calder, author of
The Speed of Change in China and
ICBM Parenting, joins our Futurists Board.
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| 03/13/08 |
Peter C. Bishop,
coeditor of
Thinking about the
Future,
Guidelines for Strategic Foresight, joins our Futurists
Board.
Peter is also
Associate Professor of Strategic Foresight and Coordinator of the
graduate program in Futures Studies at the University of Houston.
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| 03/12/08 |
Kavita
Katti, whose patents include
Methods and articles for gold nanoparticle production and
Hydroxyalkyl phosphine compounds for use as
diagnostic and therapeutic pharmaceuticals, joins our Nanotechnology
Board and Biotech/Medical Board.
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| 03/12/08 |
KV
Fitzpatrick, whose BIL presentation
Growing Up Gifted: The State of the Art of Raising Brilliant
Minds was
covered by Wired Magazine, joins our Futurists Board.
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| 03/12/08 |
Yasmin Dada-Jones, Executive Director for the Pennsylvania Medicaid
Policy Center (PMPC) and previously Executive Policy Director for the
Pennsylvania Department of Health (PADOH), joins our Biotech/Medical
Board.
She was previously Chief Director Social Sector, in the Policy
Coordination and
Advisory Service of the Presidency of South Africa in which role she
provided technical policy advice to the President and Deputy President
of South Africa. In this position she was instrumental in developing a
blueprint for social policy action for South Africa for the next decade
as well as a monitoring evaluation framework.
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| 03/12/08 |
Mariann
Zanardo, Managing Director and Key Strategist of
RegRelief
International, joins our Sustainability Board.
Mariann helps enterprises in the US and abroad to develop
environmentally sustainable practices that reduce an organization's
environmental impact and regulatory burden through management
strategies, team training, system development, and process improvements.
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| 03/12/08 |
Amy Oberg joins
our Futurists Board. Amy is
is a strategist, futurist, and competitive analyst who specializes in
helping organizations better understand the emerging competitive
environment and respond with effective, proactive
strategies.
Recently, Amy has applied her knowledge and skills to assist
organizations such as NASA, Dynegy, Kimberly Clark, Conoco, MCI,
Solectron, the United Nations, DARPA, the State of Minnesota, and the
City
of Kaoshuing (Taiwan).
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| 03/11/08 |
Karlin Sloan, founder and CEO of
Karlin Sloan & Company and author of
Smarter, Faster, Better: Strategies for Effective, Enduring, and
Fulfilled Leadership, joins our Business Board.
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| 03/11/08 |
Raj Bawa, who serves
on the Global Advisory Council of the World Future Society, joins our
Biotech/Medical Board and Nanotechnology Board.
Raj is on the Editorial Boards of
International Journal of Nanomedicine and
Nanotechnology Law
and
Business. He is also Associate Editor of
Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine.
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| 03/11/08 |
Paul Vogt,
author of
Language evolution and robotics: Issues in symbol grounding and
language
acquisition and
Cumulative cultural evolution: Can we ever learn more?,
joins our Robotics/AI Board.
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| 03/10/08 |
Our
WorldFuture 2008 lineup grows with the addition of
Lawrence A. Baines,
Dennis M. Bushnell,
Jay Herson,
Michael
Jackson, and
Shun-jie Ji.
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| 03/10/08 |
Shun-jie Ji,
Professor at the Graduate Institute of Futures Studies, Tamkang
University, and
CEO, Institute for National Development, Taiwan,
joins our Futurists Board.
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| 03/09/08 |
Michael Jackson joins our Business Board which he also founded.
Mike is a Founder Member and Chairman of
Shaping Tomorrow. He also
advises
businesses on dramatically improving their competitiveness through
pioneering work on practical Sustainable Business Strategies. Clients
include a number of blue-chip, international and national companies, and
small to medium sized UK businesses.
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| 03/09/08 |
Lawrence A. Baines, Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, Judith Herb
College of Education, University of Toledo, joins our Education Board.
Lawrence coedited
How to Get a Life, Vol. 1: Empowering Wisdom for the Heart and
Soul and
How
to Get a Life, Vol. 2: Empowering Wisdom from Thinkers and
Writers.
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| 03/08/08 |
Marc D. Hauser,
Director of the Cognitive Evolution Lab at Harvard, joins
our Neuroscience Board. Marc is author of
The Evolution of Communication,
Moral Minds: The Nature of Right and Wrong,
and
Wild Minds: What
Animals
Really Think.
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| 03/08/08 |
Jay Herson,
Managing Editor of
Future
Takes and
Senior Associate at the
Institute for Alternative Futures,
joins our Futurists Board.
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| 03/08/08 |
Dennis M. Bushnell, Chief Scientist, NASA Langley Research Center,
joins our Futurists Board and Space Settlement Board.
Dennis is responsible for technical oversight and advanced program
formulation with emphasis in the areas
of atmospheric sciences and structures, materials, acoustics, flight
electronics/control/software, instruments, aerodynamics,
aerothermodynamics, hypersonic airbreathing propulsion, computational
sciences, and systems optimization for aeronautics, spacecraft,
exploration, and space access.
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| 03/04/08 |
José
Luis
Cordeiro,
Jerry Glenn,
John L.
Petersen, and
Mike Treder
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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| 03/02/08 |
Kattesh Katti, who
developed a
"green" method to make gold nanoparticles, joins our Nanotechnology
Board.
|
| 03/01/08 |
Read the Wired interview of
Brian Cox:
Rock Star-Turned-Physicist Trades Keyboard for Atom Smasher.
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| 03/01/08 |
Marisa Vitols, Community Manager for Memebox, joins our Media & Arts
Board.
Memebox runs both
Future Blogger and
Future Scanner.
Future Blogger
enables anyone interested in the future to easily post
their thoughts, predictions, and scenarios before a like-minded group of
people. These posts are then rated by the community, with the best
content rising to the top and onto the Future Blogger front
page.
Future Scanner aggregates and organizes the best future-related content
on the web by year and category.
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| 02/29/08 |
Jeremy L.
O'Brien who
demonstrated
qubit-qutrit entanglement,
joins our Physics Board.
Qubit-qutrit entanglement could lead to advantages in quantum computing,
such as increased security and more efficient quantum gates, as well as
enable novel tests of quantum mechanics.
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| 02/28/08 |
Lisa
Galarneau, author of
Are Virtual Worlds Good For the Soul? and
The Singularity, Virtual Worlds and AI Babies,
joins our Futurists Board.
Lisa also works at Microsoft Games User Research doing
usability and playtesting on a variety of games.
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| 02/27/08 |
Gerwin
Schalk, whose
brain blanket boosts mind control, joins our Neuroscience
Board.
|
| 02/27/08 |
Read
Living Like Ed: A Guide to the Eco-Friendly Life by
Ed Begley, Jr.
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| 02/27/08 |
Jonathan Katz, who authored
The Biggest Bangs: The Mystery of Gamma-Ray Bursts, the Most Violent
Explosions in the Universe, joins our Physics
Board.
Jonathan predicted the low frequency asymptotic spectrum of the emitted
radiation and the occurrence of radio and visible "afterglows" to
gamma-ray bursts.
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| 02/26/08 |
Patrick Tucker, senior editor of
The Futurist, an
international consumer magazine about social and technological trends,
available on newsstands coast to coast, joins our Futurists Board.
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| 02/26/08 |
Listen to our
Philippe Van Nedervelde on
The
Future and You!
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| 02/26/08 |
Thanks to Athena
Andreadis, our about page is now also in
Greek.
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| 02/26/08 |
Watch the video
Nokia Morph Concept.
Morph is a concept demonstrating some of the possibilities
nanotechnologies might enable in future communication devices. Morph can
sense its environment, is energy harvesting, and self cleaning.
Morph is a flexible two-piece device that can adapt its shape to
different use modes. Nanotechnology enables us to have adaptive
materials
yet rigid forms on demand.
It is also featured in the MoMA online exhibition "Design and the
Elastic Mind". It has been a collaboration project of the Nokia Research
Center and Cambridge Nanoscience Center.
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| 02/25/08 |
Read
Netherwood. This interesting
science fiction novel is based on a hard takeoff
singularity.
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| 02/24/08 |
Bill Erickson, who has launched
BIL: An Open, Self-Organizing Alternative to TED, joins our Media &
Arts Board.
Also, check out our
TED lineup!
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| 02/24/08 |
Richard Satava, who helped
develop the first surgical robot and the first virtual
reality surgical simulators, joins our Biotech/Medical
Board.
During his 23 years of military surgery, Rick has been an active flight
surgeon, an Army astronaut candidate, MASH surgeon for the Grenada
Invasion, and hospital commander during Desert Storm, all the while
continuing clinical surgical practice. While striving to practice the
complete discipline of surgery, he is aggressively pursuing the leading
edge of advanced technologies to formulate the architecture for the next
generation of Medicine.
Rick is Senior Science Advisor at the US Army Medical Research and
Materiel Command in Fort Detrick, Maryland and was awarded the
Smithsonian Laureate in Healthcare in 1997 and 1999.
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| 02/24/08 |
Neil Rowe,
Professor of Computer Science, Center for Information Security
Research (CISR), U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, joins our
Counterterrorism and Cybercrime/Malcode Boards.
Neil authored
War Crimes from Cyberweapons and
Finding Logically
Consistent
Resource-Deception Plans for Defense in Cyberspace.
Read the
reaction of the U.S. Naval Operations Strategic Studies Group
(SSG) to meeting with experts from the Lifeboat Foundation.
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| 02/23/08 |
Jeffrey M. Karp, who developed
a surgical bandage based on a gecko's
nanoscale pillars, joins our Biotech/Medical Board. This bandage is
waterproof, biodegradable, and adheres much better than
conventional sutures.
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| 02/23/08 |
Ehud Ahissar,
whose
robot rat will lead the way in touch technology, joins our
Scientific Advisory Board.
Ehud says: "The use of touch in the design of artificial intelligence
systems has
been largely overlooked, until now."
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| 02/23/08 |
David Sancho,
author of
The Future of Bot Worms and
Rootkits: The new wave of invisible malware is here, joins
our Cybercrime/Malcode Board. David is Senior Antivirus Engineer at
Trend Micro.
|
| 02/23/08 |
Simone
Davalos,
Owner of
Combots LLC., joins our Education Board. Combots LLC seeks to
provide an entertaining and educational experience in robotics and
engineering for audiences of all ages.
|
| 02/22/08 |
Alex "Sandy" Pentland, whose
"reality mining" technology was
described
by
MIT Technology Review as
one of the 10 technologies that they think
are most likely to change the way we live, joins our Transparency vs.
Privacy Board.
Sandy is a pioneer in mobile information systems, technology for
developing
countries, consumer health, and smart environments. One of the
most-cited computer scientists in the world, with international awards
in the Arts, Sciences and Engineering, he was chosen by Newsweek as one
of the 100 Americans likely to shape this century.
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| 02/22/08 |
Frederik Pohl joins our Futurists Board.
He is a three time Nebula winner, including the "Grand Master" Nebula for
lifetime contributions to the field, and a six time Hugo winner.
He is the
only person ever to have won the Hugo both as writer and as editor.
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| 02/22/08 |
Listen to
Giulio Prisco on
The Future And You.
|
| 02/21/08 |
Long-time Lifeboat Foundation supporter
Otto Valtakoski provides donations to both our
A-PRIZE
and
NanoShield Fund.
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| 02/20/08 |
New Lifeboat 500 member
Tyrone
Steels II says
"All of humanity is in the same boat: Earth. And
if that boat is threatened or starts to sink, we need to have a
lifeboat. Plain and simple. To not plan is not a plan; it is a recipe
for disaster. I'm proud to be a Lifeboat 500 member since it provides a
priceless service to all of humanity."
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| 02/19/08 |
Paul R. Sanberg, who discovered that
umbilical cord blood-derived stem cells given intravenously will reduce
stroke damage, joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Paul is
the author of more than 400 scientific
articles, has published thirteen books, and is an inventor on over
twenty-five U.S. patents.
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| 02/18/08 |
Sarah A.
Hoyt, author of
Draw One in the Dark and coeditor of
Something Magic This Way Comes, joins our Futurists Board.
Sarah was
recently featured in five
podcasts
on
The Future And You.
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| 02/18/08 |
Nidal Hilal, who has developed a method to
create clean water using
bacteria and nanofilters, joins our Engineering Board.
|
| 02/18/08 |
Our Advisory Board members
Chris Abani,
Brian Cox,
Jonathan Haidt,
Joshua Klein, and
Peter D. Ward will
be speaking at
TED2008
which will be held from
February 27 to March 1, 2008 at the
Monterey Conference Center, Monterey, California, USA.
TED started out as an annual conference in Monterey devoted to
Technology, Entertainment and Design. The content has broadened in
recent years, but this annual event is still the main engine that drives
TED's success, bringing together 1,000 of the world's most remarkable
people. The format is fast-paced, with 50+ speakers over four days (plus
short talks, performances and evening events). In 2005, an additional
conference, TEDGlobal, was inaugurated. It's held every other year, in a
different location, focusing on a different theme.
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| 02/17/08 |
Jonathan Haidt, author of
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient
Wisdom, joins our Ethics Board.
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| 02/17/08 |
Peter D. Ward,
author of
Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past,
and
What They Can Tell Us About Our Future and
Gorgon: The Monsters That Ruled the Planet Before Dinosaurs and How
They
Died in the Greatest Catastrophe in Earth's History, and
coauthor of
Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe,
joins our Sustainability Board.
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| 02/17/08 |
Mobile, personal, and future technology
specialist Joshua
Klein joins our Futurists Board.
He is Senior Technical Consultant for
Premier Heart in New York, NY.
Premier
Heart has been developing leading-edge ECG analysis tools since 1998 and
continues to push the boundaries of quality and accuracy in detecting
hemodynamically relevant Coronary Artery Disease (CAD).
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| 02/16/08 |
Chris Abani joins
our Ethics Board. In 1985, this Nigerian writer was arrested
and imprisoned on suspicion of masterminding a political coup. The
evidence: his first novel, a political thriller written two years
earlier, when he was just sixteen years old. Since then, he
has been imprisoned twice more, sentenced to death, tortured by electric
shock; he has also thwarted assassins, published books of poetry,
novels, and won numerous literary awards.
|
| 02/16/08 |
Richard
MacManus,
one of the world's most highly respected web technology and digital
media analysts and strategists, joins our Futurists Board.
Richard's
ReadWriteWeb blog is one of the most widely read and
influential web technology blogs on the web. In December 2007,
ReadWriteWeb was ranked #15 in Technorati's Top 20 blogs, and #5 on the
Techmeme Leaderboard, putting it well above traditional news sources
such as the BBC and the Wall Street Journal.
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| 02/16/08 |
Phil Bowermaster
joins our blog team with his
first post.
|
| 02/16/08 |
Gia Milinovich,
whose
blog has been called "Britain's answer to Wil Wheaton", joins our
Media & Arts Board. Gia authored
End of the World Scenario,
Apocalympics 2012, and
The Presumptions of Idiots.
|
| 02/15/08 |
Our International Spokesperson
Philippe Van Nedervelde will be on
FastForward Radio on Feb 17, 2008 at 7:00 PM Pacific / 10:00 PM
Eastern.
This will be the
second of a two-part series of shows on the subject of
risk.
|
| 02/14/08 |
Yaakov Stern,
who
identified a brain network that may help prevent or slow
Alzheimer's,
joins our Neuroscience Board.
|
| 02/13/08 |
Molecular biologist
Athena Andreadis, author of
To Seek Out New Life: The Biology of Star Trek,
joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
|
| 02/13/08 |
Robert Robinson joins our
Rosetta@Home team.
Donate the unused CPU cycles on your computer(s) to help scientists to
determine the 3-dimensional shapes of proteins in research that may
ultimately lead to finding cures for some major human diseases. By
running the Rosetta program on your computer while you don't need it you
will help speed up and extend research in ways scientists couldn't
possibly attempt without your help. You will also be helping efforts at
designing new proteins to fight diseases such as HIV, Malaria, Cancer,
and Alzheimer's.
|
| 02/13/08 |
Brian Milch,
named one of the "Ten to Watch" in AI by IEEE Intelligent Systems in
2008, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Brian will be presenting
Artificial General Intelligence through Large-Scale, Multimodal
Bayesian
Learning at AGI-08, becoming the 32nd person in our
AGI-08
lineup.
|
| 02/13/08 |
Read
End of the World Scenario.
|
| 02/12/08 |
Read
issue #67 of Lifeboat News!
|
| 02/12/08 |
Angela
Schwering, who will be presenting
Learning from Inconsistencies in an Integrated Cognitive
Architecture
and
Analogy as Integrating Framework for Human-Level Reasoning at
AGI-08, joins our Robotics/AI Board. She is the 31st person to join our
growing lineup at
AGI-08!
|
| 02/11/08 |
Andres M. Lozano, who is
improving patient's memory with deep-brain
stimulation,
joins our Neuroscience Board.
|
| 02/11/08 |
Mark Gross,
whose
smart "Lego" c |
