Lifeboat Foundation

Featured Stories

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  Ed Begley Jr., actor, environmentalist, and founder of Begley’s Best, joins our Sustainability Board.

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

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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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  Russia accused of unleashing cyberwar to disable Estonia and Georgia.

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  Watch Nokia Morph Concept. Morph is a concept demonstrating some of the possibilities nanotechnologies might enable in future communication devices.
   
  Morph can sense its environment, is energy harvesting, and self cleaning. Morph is a flexible two-piece device that can adapt its shape to different use modes. Nanotechnology enables us to have adaptive materials yet rigid forms on demand.

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  Wesley L. Harris, Charles Stark Draper Professor and Head of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, joins our Space Settlement Board.

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

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  Learn that Moore’s Law has been replaced by a Virtual Moore’s Law that is accelerating and bringing the Singularity with it!

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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 have quotes by the late Michael Crichton on our Quotes page.

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  Ray Kurzweil says “Currently at least 99 percent, if not 99.9 percent, of the computational capacity of all the computers on the Internet lies unused.” We say “Join [email protected] to use spare clock cycles on your computer to help discover new drugs that fight AIDS! Join our team!”

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  Our LifeShield Bunkers program is a compliment to our Space Habitats program. It is a fallback position in case programs such as our BioShield and NanoShield fail globally or locally.

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  Jason Vaughn Clark, who created a monolithic comb drive nanomachine, joins our Engineering Board and Nanotechnology Board. This nanoscale motorized positioning device can be used in biological and engineering fields.

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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”.