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Lifeboat News #84

#84

Lifeboat News

This issue published on 07/01/09. Copyright 2009 Lifeboat Foundation. All Rights Reserved.

Number One Thousand

The Lifeboat Foundation celebrates the addition of our 1,000th SAB member: A. C. Grayling. Anthony is Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford.
 
Anthony uses philosophical logic to counter the arguments of the sceptic, thereby shedding light on the traditional ideas of the realism debate and developing associated views on truth and meaning. He is the author of many books, articles, and papers.
 
Unlike most organizations, whose advisory boards are too small to do more than provide some advice, our think tank provides action as well as words. Our board members have developed programs, created reports, donated money, fueled our blog, joined our staff, launched numerous forums, organized events, and provided input on a range of issues from web design to grant proposals to ideas for new areas that Lifeboat Foundation should be involved in. We welcome A. C. Grayling to our little think tank!
 
Read the press release at http://lifeboat.com/ex/press.releases.1...s.on.sab

The Singularity Summit 2009

Our Ben Goertzel, Aubrey de Grey, Marcus Hutter, Randal Koene, Ray Kurzweil, Gary Marcus, Anders Sandberg, Jürgen Schmidhuber, and Eliezer Yudkowsky will be speaking at The Singularity Summit 2009 which will be held in New York on October 3-4 in Kaufmann Hall at the historic 92nd St Y.
 
Learn more at http://lifeboat.com/upcoming

Frank C. Adamek

Frank C. Adamek joins us and says "The generations of humanity do not get to choose the troubles and dangers that assail them; their only choice is whether and how to meet those dangers. Technological progress is reaching a critical point, smashing through the conventional boundaries between what humans were or were not capable of, thrusting into our trembling hands the radically enhanced power to both destroy ourselves and to remake our world and very beings.
 
This situation cannot continue for any great length of time, and if we cannot seize hold of this power to create a safer and more positive world then we seemed destined to permanent disability or death. No generation before us has shouldered such responsibility, and if we act with wisdom and foresight it may be that no future generation will have to. If so we are the most critical generation that ever has been or will be, uniquely positioned to determine the fate of life in our corner of the universe for potentially millions of years, and we must act accordingly."
 
Learn more at http://lifeboat.com/ex/donor.date.list#...c_adamek

Books

Read "Planetary Messenger" by our Jacob D. Haqq-Misra. This novel explores the social, scientific, and spiritual consequences of discovering another planet in the galaxy just like our Earth.
 
This book is available at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/144211...42110546
 
Also, see 371 books authored by our Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) members at http://lifeboat.com/wheel.cgi?show

Growing Membership

Recent donations/pledges we have received since the last newsletter:
 
Sergio M.L. Tarrero: $85, Michael Anissimov: $85, Eric Bauswell: $85, Michael Dickey: $85, Jason Gaverick Matheny: $85, Philippe Van Nedervelde: $85, Kenneth P. Weiss: $85, Frank C. Adamek: $25, C M Anderson: $25, Rick Hubbard: $25, Alan R. Light: $25, Matthew L. McGuirl: $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, and John N. Philipps (Jack): $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.