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  Watch robot quadrotors perform the James Bond theme on our Videos page.

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  Russia accused of unleashing cyberwar to disable Estonia and Georgia.

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  Watch 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.

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  Shivon Zilis joins our Neuroscience Board and Robotics/AI Board. Shivon is the Director of Operations at Neuralink, Board Member and Advisor at OpenAI, and Founding Fellow of the Creative Destruction Lab Incubator.

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  Buzz Aldrin joins our Space Settlement Board.
   
  On July 20, 1969, Buzz and Neil Armstrong made their historic Apollo 11 moonwalk, becoming the first two humans to set foot on another world. An estimated 600 million people — at that time, the world's largest television audience in history — witnessed this unprecedented heroic endeavor.

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  Actor/director Edward James Olmos joins our Ethics Board and Media & Arts Board. Eddie has done everything from playing Admiral Adama on Battlestar Galactica to helping get communities cleaned up and rebuilt after the 1992 Rodney King Riots in Los Angeles.

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  Our David Pearce has authored the special report Brave New World? A Defense Of Paradise-Engineering.
   
  In the future, it will be feasible technically — at the very least — for pharmacotherapy and genetic medicine to re-engineer us so that we can become — to take one example among billions — a cross between Jesus and Einstein. Potentially, transhumans will be endowed with a greater capacity for love, empathypsychopaths by comparison; and posterity will be right.
   
  In contrast to Brave New World, however, the death of ageing won’t be followed by our swift demise after a sixty-odd year life-span. We’ll have to reconcile ourselves to the prospect of living happily ever after. Scare-mongering prophets of doom notwithstanding, a life of unremitting bliss isn’t nearly as bad as it sounds.

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  Now that our Scientific Advisory Board has reached an acceptable size, we are ready to fill out our staff and regular Board of Directors. The pay at this time won’t be high, but neither will your workload. Learn about our openings!

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  Read the AsteroidShield program completed by our Scientific Advisory Board. Learn about the dangers caused by asteroids and proposed solutions to this problem.

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  Andrea B. Maier joins our Life Extension Board. Andrea is Professor of Gerontology at VU Amsterdam and Professor of Medicine and Healthy Aging and Codirector of the Centre for Healthy Longevity at the National University of Singapore.

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  We have launched a triple partnership that includes the Lifeboat Foundation, Nanotech-Now, and The American Journal of Bioethics.
   
  The column editor for this partnership is Summer Johnson, executive editor of The American Journal of Bioethics (AJOB).

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  The Lifeboat Foundation worked with ten other organizations including the National Space Society and the Space Frontier Foundation to launch a new strategic alliance for space development and commerce named the Alliance for Space Development (ASD).

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  We now have a quote by Garry Kasparov on our Quotes page.

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  Sarah Tabrizi, who discovered new targets for treating Huntington’s disease, joins our Neuroscience Board.