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Jul 21, 2017
John Gallagher joins our blog team with the post US nuclear arsenal controlled by 1970s computers with 8in floppy disks.
Jul 9, 2017
Read issue #179 of Lifeboat News!
Jul 6, 2017
Andreas M. Hein joins our blog team with the post Our recent space art discovery: “Expanding to New Horizons” by Alexandra Hodgson.
Jul 3, 2017
The Lifeboat Foundation thanks
Google and Microsoft for
their combined donation of $500 in computing time.
The first thing we have done with this donation is generate the
Zcash
vanity address of t1LifeboatfkjDqAWdW4nCaSj2NaJSr1X3E.
Our Zcash holdings are already worth six figures and we expect to be able
to fund a lot of important research once our endowment fund gets a bit larger.
Jul 2, 2017
The parents of Charlie Gard don't want their baby to die. They raised the
funds to save him but the UK government won't allow the treatment.
Lifeboat Foundation always supports those who wish to try the latest
medical treatments (or any other cutting-edge tech).
Learn what you can do to save Charlie Gard’s life!
Jul 1, 2017
The Association of Professional Futurists is having its North American
Gathering in beautiful Seattle Washington, July 27–29. They will
be discussing “The Future of Global Health”.
Learn more!
Jun 24, 2017
Hugo Award-winning Peter Watts joins our Futurists Board. Read his Blindsight!
Jun 24, 2017
Kimberly Wiefling, Founding Member of Silicon Valley Alliances (SVA), joins our Space Settlement Board.
Jun 23, 2017
Justina Robson, author of the Quantum Gravity series, joins our Futurists Board. Read her Transformers: The Covenant of Primus.
Jun 22, 2017
Nisi Shawl, author of Everfair, joins our Futurists Board.
Jun 21, 2017
Kathleen Ann Goonan joins our Futurists Board. Cyberpunk SF writer William Gibson described her debut novel Queen City Jazz as “An unforgettable vision of America transfigured by a new and utterly apocalyptic technology.”
Jun 21, 2017
Blake Crouch joins our Futurists Board. Blake’s international-bestselling Wayward Pines trilogy was adapted into a television series for FOX, executive produced by M. Night Shyamalan, and was Summer 2015's #1 show.
Jun 20, 2017
Mike Resnick joins our Futurists Board. Mike is the all-time leading award winner, living or dead, for short fiction. He has won 5 Hugos (from a record 37 nominations), a Nebula, and other major awards in the USA, France, Japan, Spain, Catalonia, Croatia, and Poland.
Jun 20, 2017
Read issue #178 of Lifeboat News!
