Lifeboat Foundation

Featured Stories

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  Henry Markram, director of IBM’s Blue Brain Project, joins our Neuroscience Board. The Blue Brain Project is an attempt to reverse engineer the human brain onto a massive supercomputer.

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  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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  We now have quotes by Lord Martin Rees on our Quotes page. Martin was our Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award 2004 winner and is a member of our Scientific Advisory Board.

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  Our Space Habitats program works to build fail-safes against global existential risks by encouraging the spread of sustainable human civilization beyond Earth.

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  Read Singularities and Nightmares by David Brin.

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  Read Jurisprudence of Artilects: Blueprint for a Synthetic Citizen by Frank W. Sudia, JD.

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  Watch a Japanese simulation of what a large meteorite collision would look like.
  

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  The RPG Eclipse Phase includes the “Singularity Foundation” and “Lifeboat Institute” as player factions. Learn more about this game!

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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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  Diana J. Muir, founder of the Hawking Institute and of the Personal Learning Center, International, joins our Education Board. With more than 14 years in online learning, Diana is considered one of the pioneers in the field of online education.

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

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  We would like your input on our InternetShield program. As the Internet grows in importance, an attack on it could cause physical as well as informational damage. An attack today on hospital systems or electric utilities could lead to deaths. In the future an attack could be used to alter the output that is produced by nanofactories worldwide leading to massive deaths.

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  GREAT NEWS! We have raised our grant limit from $10,000 to $25,000.

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  Watch Productive Nanosystems: From molecules to superproducts on our Videos page.

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  Do you have free or inexpensive space available for an entertaining Lifeboat Foundation volunteer? If so, send a message to [email protected] with the subject “Lifeboat Foundation Space”.