Lifeboat Foundation

Featured Stories

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  Shivon Zilis joins our Neuroscience Board and Robotics/AI Board. Shivon is the Director of Operations at Neuralink, Board Member and Advisor at OpenAI, and Founding Fellow of the Creative Destruction Lab Incubator.

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  Read 10 Futuristic Materials by Michael Anissimov.

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  The Lifeboat Foundation and its donors sponsored our board member Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka into Zero G.
   
  After experiencing Zero G, Wole said: “Hitchless flight. Thank you again for the remarkable experience which I’m still digesting.”
   
  Watch Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Winner Stephen Hawking also enjoy Zero G!

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  Learn that Moore’s Law has been replaced by a Virtual Moore’s Law that is accelerating and bringing the Singularity with it!

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  Our David Pearce has authored the special report Utopian Surgery: Early Arguments Against Anesthesia in Surgery, Dentistry, and Childbirth.
   
  Before the advent of anesthesia, medical surgery was a terrifying prospect. Its victims could suffer indescribable agony. The utopian prospect of surgery without pain was a nameless fantasy — a notion as fanciful as the abolitionist project of life without suffering still seems today. The introduction of diethyl ether CH₃CH₂OCH₂CH₃ (1846) and chloroform CHCl₃ (1847) as general anesthetics in surgery and delivery rooms from the mid-19th century offered patients hope of merciful relief. Surgeons were grateful as well: within a few decades, controllable anesthesia would at last give them the chance to perform long, delicate operations.
   
  So it might be supposed that the adoption of painless surgery would have been uniformly welcomed too by theologians, moral philosophers and medical scientists alike. Yet this was not always the case. Advocates of the “healing power of pain” put up fierce if disorganized resistance.

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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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  Shannon Vyff, author of 21st Century Kids, joins our Education Board.

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  Maria Entraigues joins our Media & Arts Board. Maria’s written songs and performed as a soloist singer for several feature films including Rush Hour 2 (with Jackie Chan), After the Sunset (with Pierce Brosnan), The Magnificent Ambersons (with Madeleine Stowe), Picking up the Pieces (with Woody Allen), Diamond Hunters (with Alyssa Milano), and A Walk in the Clouds (with Keanu Reeves).

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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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  We now have a quote by Jeff Bezos on our Quotes page. Jeff is founder of Amazon and will soon be the richest person on the planet. (This is an important quote. Read it!)

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

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  Read SHOUTING AT THE COSMOS…Or How SETI has Taken a Worrisome Turn Into Dangerous Territory by David Brin.

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

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  Jody Westby, CEO and Founder of Global Cyber Risk, joins our Cybercrime/Malcode Board. She chairs the American Bar Association’s Privacy & Computer Crime Committee and represents the ABA on the National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists.