Lifeboat Foundation

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  Carolyn L. Burke, CEO of Integrity Incorporated, joins our Robotics/AI Board.

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  The research paper Human Brain/Cloud Interface has been published by our Amara D. Angelica, Frank J. Boehm, Krishnan Chakravarthy, Robert A. Freitas Jr., Steven A. Garan, Tad Hogg, Mikhail A. Lebedev, Nuno R. B. Martins, Jeffrey V. Rosenfeld, Yuriy Svidinenko, and Melanie Swan.

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  Philippe Van Nedervelde joins the Lifeboat 500, becoming one of a few special individuals and organizations to make a meaningful, but affordable commitment of the price of a cup of coffee a day, in order to help us grow!

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  Renata Bushko, Founder and Director of the Future of Health Technology Institute (FHTI), joins our Biotech/Medical Board.

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  Famous YouTube personality Scott Manley joins our Space Settlement Board. Scott makes videos discussing space-related topics and news, mainly concerning up-to-date rocket science developments. In recognition of his work as a popular science communicator, asteroid 33434 Scottmanley was named after him.
   
  Author Anne McCaffrey consulted with Scott on the effects of asteroid impacts while writing The Skies of Pern, determining the orbit of the comet and providing advice on how the event sho$
   
  Watch Scott’s YouTube channel!

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  Ebrima Ceesay of Booz Allen Hamilton, who consults on information security, forensics, data mining, and machine learning, joins our Cybercrime/Malcode Board.

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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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  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 Scientific Advisory Board completes our BioShield program. The BioShield goals have been endorsed by U.S. Senator Bill Frist, Sun Cofounder Bill Joy, and Futurist-Inventor Ray Kurzweil!

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  Carolyn Porco joins our Space Settlement Board. Carolyn is an American planetary scientist known for her work in the exploration of the outer solar system, beginning with her imaging work on the Voyager missions to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in the 1980s. She leads the imaging science team on the Cassini mission currently in orbit around Saturn. She is also an imaging scientist on the New Horizons mission launched to Pluto.

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  Jaan Tallinn, cofounder of Skype, the only major IM client that both securely authenticates conversation participants and encrypts the communication, donates over $10,000 to Lifeboat Foundation.

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  The Lifeboat Foundation now has a new official song! (You may also be cheered up by this song.)