We thank Google for their generous donation to the Lifeboat Foundation.
You can learn more about their donation at
http://lifeboat.com/ex/donor.date.list#google
Sustainability
Watch "How to Bring Solar Energy to Seven Billion People" by our Cyrus Wadia at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjrNkkOi8V4
Our Next Conference
Anton Pustovrh from Slovenia donates to our next conference and says
"While future technologies will likely provide great benefits for
humanity, they also bring many global catastrophic risks. I hope the
next Lifeboat Foundation conference will help raise awareness of such
issues and help ensure a safer future."
Learn more our next conference at
https://lifeboat.com/ex/our.next.conference
WorldFuture 2009
WorldFuture 2009 will be held July 17-19, 2009 at the Chicago Hilton in
Chicago, Illinois. Our Craig Bettles, Peter Bishop, Arthur L. Caplan,
Joseph F. Coates, José Cordeiro, Irene J. Dabrowski, Jay Gary, Jerome C.
Glenn, Theodore J. Gordon, Linda Groff, Amy Oberg, Ian D. Pearson, Rick
Smyre, and Don Tapscott will be speaking.
Learn more at http://www.wfs.org/2009main.htm
Amara D. Angelica
Amara Angelica, the editor of KurzweilAI.net and of "The Singularity Is
Near: When Humans Transcend Biology", joins our blog team with the post
"Global Swine Flu: 787 cases in 17 countries, hospital overload — are we
entering an Age of Pandemics?"
Read her post at http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=407
Important Blog
Read the blog "Mindfiles, Mindware, and Mindclones: One hundred questions answered about the coming age of our own cyberconsciousness and techno-immortality" at http://mindclones.blogspot.com/
Transcend: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever
Get "Transcend: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever" by our Ray Kurzweil and Terry Grossman at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/160529...05299561
Growing Membership
Linus Peterson from Sweden joins us and says "The best minds of the world
should be focusing on making sure humanity survives. This should be our
number 1 priority! I hope we will make it through this extremely trying
century. Best of luck!"
Here are some of the recent donations/pledges we have received since
the last newsletter:
Donald Maclean: $2,000,
Stanley Pecavar: $1,000,
David Wall: $450,
Sergio M.L. Tarrero: $170,
Michael Anissimov: $85,
Eric Bauswell: $85,
Michael Dickey: $85,
Michael Haislip: $85,
Jason Gaverick Matheny: $85,
Philippe Van Nedervelde: $85,
Kenneth P. Weiss: $85,
Tom Driscoll: $30,
C M Anderson: $25,
Rick Hubbard: $25,
Alan R. Light: $25,
Matthew L. McGuirl: $25,
Adrian-Bodgan Morut (Adi): $25,
Peter Murray: $25,
Anonymous: $20,
Ronald Amos: $10,
Alexander Braitberg: $10,
Stephen Fleming: $10,
Christopher Dilkus: $10,
Thomas Dolphin: $10,
Sylvia Engdahl: $10,
George Garrett: $10,
Joseph P. Jackson III: $10,
Linus Petersson: $10,
John N. Philipps (Jack): $10,
and Anton Pustovrh: $10.
Our Join Us page at https://lifeboat.com/ex/join.us now allows you to
pay for your membership anywhere from monthly to every ten years.
