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others, the Doomsday Clock has been moved to five minutes before
midnight.
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LIFEBOAT NEWS 
May 16 -
Best-selling author
Douglas "Hoss" Preston joins our Futurists Board.
His novel
Blasphemy is described as:
Physicist Gregory North Hazelius sold the concept of creating a
ginormous forty billion dollar "superconducting supercollider particle
accelerator" based on finding a new source of energy. He knows not to
tell anyone about his personal secret agenda behind why he pushed the
Isabella project as it is called; he plans to duplicate the Big Bang of
creation in order to speak to God.
The Navajo Indian Reservation in the southwest is chosen as the
locale for Isabella. Work begins inside the five-hundred-square-mile Red
Mesa tableland. However, the project falls behind schedule disturbing DC
politicos who bet on its quick success.
Presidential science adviser Dr. Stanton Lockwood sends former CIA
operative Wyman Ford to investigate why the delay and is there any way
to propel the project back on schedule. At the same time, others
strongly oppose Isabella fearing the wrath of God.
May 16 -
Pete Mandik,
author of
The Neurophilosophy of Subjectivity,
An Epistemological Theory of Consciousness?, and
Varieties of Representation in Evolved and Embodied Neural
Networks, joins our Neuroscience Board.
May 15 -
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.
May 14 -
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.
May 14 -
Peter H. Kahn, Jr., author of
The Human Relationship with Nature:
Development and Culture and
Nature and Moral Development,
joins our Sustainability Board.
May 14 -
Li-Hai Tan, who
showed that a person dyslexic in English
may not be dyslexic in Chinese
and vice versa,
joins our Neuroscience Board.
May 13 -
Artificial heart pioneer
Tofy Mussivand joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
May 13 -
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.
May 13 -
Sonia M. Suter, author of
The Allure and Peril of Genetic Exceptionalism: Do We Need Special
Genetics Legislation?, joins our Ethics Board.
May 12 -
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.
May 12 -
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.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
On May 31, 2008,
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.
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 over 42 Lifeboat
Foundation Scientific Advisory Board members.
Lawrence A. Baines,
Raj Bawa,
Craig Bettles,
Peter C. Bishop,
Dennis M. Bushnell,
Josh Calder,
Arthur L.
Caplan,
Joe Coates,
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,
Carl Jensen III,
Shun-jie Ji,
Tom
Lombardo,
Gary Marx,
Jim Mathews,
Kenneth L.
Nichols,
Amy Oberg,
Jonathan Peck,
John L.
Petersen,
Carrie Rathsack,
Scott Reif,
Sheila R. Ronis,
Karlin Sloan,
Rick Smyre,
Stephen F.
Steele,
Mike Treder,
Thomas F. Valone,
Verne Wheelwright,
James Wright,
Mariann
Zanardo,
and
Michael Zey
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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