Latest News
Jan 6, 2021
Robin Hanson, author of The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life When Robots Rule the Earth, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Jan 6, 2021
Veronica Chiaravalli, CEO of Emerging Technologies Sweden, joins our Futurists Board.
Jan 6, 2021
Read Alien Puzzle Boxes: Twenty short science fiction stories by Jeremy Lichtman. It is available for FREE until Friday.
Jan 1, 2021
The
TransVision 2021 Conference
will be held
June 4–6 at Ateneo de Madrid.
Our
Didier Coeurnelle,
José Luis Cordeiro,
Felipe Debasa,
Aubrey de Grey,
Ben Goertzel,
Rodolfo Goya,
Andrés Grases,
Rudi Hoffman,
Charlie Kam,
Ray Kurzweil,
João Pedro Magalhães,
Alexandre Maurer,
Jim Mellon,
Elena Milova,
Liz Parrish,
David Pearce,
Valerija Pride,
Ramón Risco,
Anders Sandberg,
Paul Spiegel,
Melanie Swan,
Sergio Tarrero,
Philippe Van Nedervelde,
and
Natasha Vita-More
will be speaking at this global futurist summit.
Learn more!
Jan 1, 2021
Dr. David Bray is now the inaugural director for the Atlantic Council's
GeoTech Center, which has produced a series of programmes focused on the
intersection of technology, advances in data capabilities, and global
geopolitics as part of a weekly
The GeoTech Hour.
The
GeoTech Center also will be publishing the official Report of the
Commission on the Geopolitical Impacts of New Technologies and Data in
early 2021 which includes Commissioners from the U.S. Congress and private
industry; the Center and Commission already have released a narrated,
animated video of its overall activities.
Dec 31, 2020
Read issue #221 of Lifeboat News!
Dec 29, 2020
Space Renaissance 2021 is calling for papers/abstracts by May 31, 2021.
Dec 28, 2020
Read Voyager: Photographs from Humanity’s Greatest Journey. Our Garry Hunt was a member of the Voyager imaging team. (Garry received 2 NASA Awards for the Voyager Project with two additional NASA Awards in 1986 and 1990.)
Dec 27, 2020
Read The Vanished Seas, a science fiction mystery by Catherine Asaro. Read this interview about her book. Visit her Patreon page.
Dec 27, 2020
Read Androids and Intelligent Networks in Early Modern Literature and Culture: Artificial Slaves by Kevin LaGrandeur and Surviving the Machine Age: Intelligent Technology and the Transformation of Human Work coedited by Kevin LaGrandeur.
Dec 27, 2020
The NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and our Professor
Brian Kennedy are proud to be hosting FREE Healthy Longevity
webinars on January 7, 14, 21, and February 4 and 18. They will be
held 7 PM Singapore time.
Our Steve Horvath will be speaking
at the January 7 webinar.
Learn more!
Dec 27, 2020
Rogue Space Systems Corporation, a new satellite servicing company is
fundraising money. Rogue is developing Orbital Robots (Orbots™) that will
transport and service satellites in LEO, MEO, and GEO. In December of 2020,
Rogue signed a cooperative agreement (CRADA) with the US Air Force Research
Laboratory (AFRL).
In addition to traditional fundraising efforts, Rogue is also accepting
investment funds from non-traditional investors on Trucrowd, a Federal
equity-based crowdfunding portal.
Learn more!