Lifeboat Foundation

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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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  Our donor list is now sortable by amount, date, membership type, and name.

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  Watch a magnificent space compilation on our Videos page.

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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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  Read Minding the Planet: The Meaning and Future of the Semantic Web by Nova Spivack.

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  Kerstin Dautenhahn joins our Robotics/AI Board. She coedited Imitation and Social Learning in Robots, Humans and Animals: Behavioral, Social, and Communicative Dimensions.

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

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  Lital Asher-Dotan joins our Business Board. Lital was chosen as one of the “40 most Influential managers in Israel under the age of 40” by the prestigious TheMarker Magazine, for establishing Procter & Gamble's Israel House of Innovation, the first P&G R&D center in Israel.

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  Sonia Arrison, an author and policy analyst who has studied the impact of new technologies on society for the better part of a decade, joins our Futurists Board. A frequent media contributor and guest, her work has appeared in many publications including CBS MarketWatch, CNN, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today.

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  Alexander “Sasha” Kashlinsky, who has discovered “dark flow” which is causing hundreds of clusters of galaxies to stream en masse towards a region at the edge of the visible universe, joins our Cosmology Board. Sasha is Senior Staff Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

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  Artist and animator Gina “Nanogirl” Miller joins our Media & Arts Board. Gina established Nanotechnology Industries in 1998. Nanotechnology Industries distributes information and provides resources about nanotechnology and related emerging technologies that will transform our world in positive ways.
   
  Gina has completed a 3-minute long animation that nicely illustrates the workings of Rob Freitas’ proposed programmable dermal display (essentially, a video-touchscreen nano-tattoo that reports real-time medical information to the user, as reported back by numerous nanorobots stationed in various locations inside the body).

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  Our InfoPreserver program is designed to preserve the information created by our civilization, including technology, art, and culture.
   
  This program is insurance against many of the threats we study and attempt to mitigate in other Lifeboat Foundation programs. If some threat should occur and we are not successful it preventing it, InfoPreserver may be a key to our civilization's rebound.

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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!