http://lifeboat.com/ Learn how Lifeboat Foundation is helping humanity survive existential risks and possible misuse of increasingly powerful technologies, including genetic engineering, nanotechnology, and robotics/AI, as we move towards a technological singularity. en-us 120 Copyright 2002-2007 Lifeboat Foundation Wed, 14 May 2008 10:19:52 PDT lifeboatnews@lifeboat.com (Lifeboat News) webmaster@lifeboat.com (Lifeboat Webmaster) http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_14_08_Robert_B_Cialdini 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". Wed, 14 May 2008 10:19:52 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_14_08_Robert_B_Cialdini http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_14_08_Peter_H_Kahn_Jr Peter H. Kahn, Jr., author of "The Human Relationship with Nature: Development and Culture" and "Nature and Moral Development", joins our Sustainability Board. Wed, 14 May 2008 05:43:08 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_14_08_Peter_H_Kahn_Jr http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_14_08_Li_Hai_Tan Li-Hai Tan, who showed that a person dyslexic in English may not be dyslexic in Chinese and vice versa, joins our Neuroscience Board. Wed, 14 May 2008 00:54:08 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_14_08_Li_Hai_Tan http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_13_08_Tofy_Mussivand Artificial heart pioneer Tofy Mussivand joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Tue, 13 May 2008 02:34:37 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_13_08_Tofy_Mussivand http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_13_08_Jean_Pierre_Dupuy 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. Tue, 13 May 2008 02:10:29 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_13_08_Jean_Pierre_Dupuy http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_13_08_Sonia_M_Suter Sonia M. Suter, author of "The Allure and Peril of Genetic Exceptionalism: Do We Need Special Genetics Legislation?", joins our Ethics Board. Tue, 13 May 2008 01:12:52 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_13_08_Sonia_M_Suter http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_12_08_Saskia_Sassen 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. Mon, 12 May 2008 14:36:44 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_12_08_Saskia_Sassen http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_12_08_Anind_K_Dey 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. Mon, 12 May 2008 02:06:32 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_12_08_Anind_K_Dey http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_11_08_Scott_Reif Scott Reif, the author of "The Future of Advanced Transportation", joins our Futurists Board. Sun, 11 May 2008 22:13:04 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_11_08_Scott_Reif http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_11_08_Joe_Coates World-renowned thinker, writer, and speaker on the future, Joe Coates, joins our Futurists Board. Sun, 11 May 2008 18:28:36 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_11_08_Joe_Coates http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_08_08_Nanoimpellers 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. Thu, 8 May 2008 17:44:17 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_08_08_Nanoimpellers http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_06_08_Graham_K_Whitehead Graham K. Whitehead, author of "New Technology, New Society", joins our Futurists Board. Tue, 6 May 2008 17:26:13 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_06_08_Graham_K_Whitehead http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_06_08_Lifeboat_News_Issue_70 Read issue #70 of Lifeboat News! Tue, 6 May 2008 12:35:42 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_06_08_Lifeboat_News_Issue_70 http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_05_08_Brain_Computer_Interfaces_for_Manipulating_Dreams Read "Brain-Computer Interfaces for Manipulating Dreams" by our Michael Anissimov. Mon, 5 May 2008 21:02:49 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_05_08_Brain_Computer_Interfaces_for_Manipulating_Dreams http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_05_08_Peter_J_Bentley 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". Mon, 5 May 2008 00:25:55 PDT http://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#05_05_08_Peter_J_Bentley