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The Lifeboat Foundation is looking to hire an HQ Supervisor. This individual will be trained by our president in Reno, Nevada USA and will be in charge of everything from financial paperwork to keeping our HQ (headquarters) clean.
 
The two main qualities that are being looked for are: 1) follow through 2) and a strong interest in “Safeguarding Humanity”.


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Lifeboat Foundation has launched the world’s FIRST bitcoin endowment fund. Learn more!


Our LifeShield Bunkers program now enables you to participate in a local LifeShield Bunker.


Our David Brin's new novel Existence mentions our many programs. Watch the trailer for this book.

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Latest News

Oct 16, 2018

Best-selling author C.J. Cherryh joins our Futurists Board. Read her Hugo Award-winning novels Downbelow Station and Cyteen.

Oct 15, 2018

Eneasz Brodski, author of Red Legacy, joins our Futurists Board.

Oct 15, 2018

Sylvain Neuvel, author of Sleeping Giants, joins our Futurists Board. This novel has been optioned by Sony Pictures for development into a film and was sold for translation into twenty languages.

Oct 15, 2018

Gwyneth Jones, author of Divine Endurance, in which she created the term gynoid, joins our Futurists Board.

Oct 15, 2018

David Walton, author of the award-winning novel Terminal Mind, joins our Futurists Board.

Oct 15, 2018

Doug Drexler joins our Futurists Board. He is a visual effects artist, designer, sculptor, illustrator, scenic artist, graphic designer, and a makeup artist who has collaborated with such talents as Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman, James Caan, Meryl Streep, and Warren Beatty.

Oct 15, 2018

Peter Cawdron, author of Anomaly, joins our Futurists Board.

Oct 15, 2018

Franklin Horton, author of the bestselling series The Borrowed World, joins our Futurists Board.

Oct 15, 2018

Diane Francis, the first female to become editor of a national daily newspaper in Canada, joins our Media & Arts Board.

Oct 15, 2018

Al Chalabi, coauthor of Juvenescence: Investing in the Age of Longevity, joins our Life Extension Board.

Oct 14, 2018

New York Times #1 bestselling author Scott Sigler joins our Futurists Board. Read his EarthCore!

Oct 14, 2018

Dina Ellis Rochkind joins our New Money Systems Board. Dina has held senior positions on the Senate Banking Committee, House Financial Services Committee, and U.S. Treasury Department during two decades in federal public policy roles.

Oct 14, 2018

Isaac Arthur, creator and producer of Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur, joins our Futurists Board.

Oct 14, 2018

Matthew Mather, the best-selling author of CyberStorm, joins our Futurists Board.

Oct 13, 2018

Sotira Trifourki, CEO of Artemis Space Technologies, joins our Space Settlement Board.

Oct 13, 2018

Rio Mohan Dluzak, a member of the board of the Institute of Neuro Innovation, joins our Neuroscience Board.

Oct 13, 2018

Fern Evitt, Strategy Director at Smartmesh, joins our Futurists Board.

Oct 9, 2018

Read issue #193 of Lifeboat News!

Oct 4, 2018

Read The High Frontier: An Easier Way, now available in paperback form.

Sep 30, 2018

Vahe Poghosyan, coauthor of Epileptic MEG Spikes Detection Using Amplitude Thresholding and Dynamic Time Warping, joins our Neuroscience Board.

Sep 29, 2018

Xavier Rosseel joins our blog team with the post Molecular switches are not just ‘on’ or ‘off’.

Sep 25, 2018

Jennifer McCartney, author of the bestselling novel Afloat, joins our Futurists Board.

Sep 22, 2018

Cathy Miller joins our blog team with the post David Sinclair — Can NMN Reverse Aging?

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Upcoming Events

TransVision Madrid 2018 will be held October 19–21 in Madrid, Spain. Our Didier Coeurnelle, José Luis Cordeiro, Felipe Debasa, Rodolfo Goya, Aubrey de Grey, João Pedro de Magalhães, Ben Goertzel, Michael Greve, Charlie Kam, Alexandre Maurer, David Pearce, Ramón Risco Delgado, Anders Sandberg, Natasha Vita-More, and Ibon Zugasti will be speaking/participating.
 
This conference will cover concepts such as longevity extension, artificial intelligence, human enhancement, and other technologies and future trends. Learn more!

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Featured Stories

  • Read Human Body Version 2.0 by Ray Kurzweil.

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

  • Rafaela Hillerbrand joins our Complex Systems Board and Ethics Board. She is a member of the Future of Humanity Institute staff and earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Erlangen-Nünberg and a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics at the University of Müster and the Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur.

  • Watch our new Lifeboat Foundation Introduction Video!

  • Alper Bozkurt, who is developing cyborg cockroaches to be used as emergency responders, joins our Engineering Board.

  • Steven J. Rose, who has discovered a method to turn light into matter, joins our Physics Board.

  • Our AIShield program is designed to protect against unfriendly AI (Artificial Intelligence).
     
    Why the first AGI is unlikely to be Friendly AI: Even if it was somehow possible with our primitive tools to design self-awareness into an AI, it is worth noting that the vast majority of AI under development is not being designed to be Friendly AI so we need to be prepared for the first AGI to not be inherently “friendly”.

  • We now have quotes by Ray Kurzweil on our Quotes page. Ray Kurzweil has donated more than $10,000 to the Lifeboat Foundation.

  • 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.

  • Read 10 Futuristic Materials by Michael Anissimov.

  • Watch a magnificent space compilation on our Videos page.

  • Read our SecurityPreserver program! Learn how we can have technologically-enabled “radical reciprocal accountability” and transparency protecting us from existential risks through information!

  • Watch demonstration of the Z450 Full Color 3D Printer on our Videos page. (Real product that makes three dimensional objects.)

  • Become famous! Submit contributions to the Lifeboat Foundation endorsed Journals of Personal Cyberconsciousness and Geoethical Nanotechnology.

  • Bindeshwar Pathak, the great humanist and social reformer of contemporary India, joins our Sustainability Board. After Gandhi, Dr. Pathak is the man, more than any other in India, who has championed sanitation and upliftment of the untouchables as the mission of his life. For the last three decades he has been working relentlessly to keep the ecosystem clean and bring the marginalized sections of society in the mainstream.