invention – Lifeboat News: The Blog https://lifeboat.com/blog Safeguarding Humanity Wed, 18 Apr 2018 16:51:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 Bioquark Inc. — Cracking the Entrepreneur Code Podcast — Ira Pastor https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/04/bioquark-inc-cracking-the-entrepreneur-code-podcast-ira-pastor Wed, 18 Apr 2018 16:51:39 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=77903
]]> Unexpected Futurist: Ben Franklin envisions 2776 — and Cryonics https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/09/unexpected-futurist-ben-franklin-envisions-2776-and-cryonics Thu, 07 Sep 2017 19:09:43 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=72391

In Unexpected Futurist, we profile the lesser known futurist side of influential individuals. This episode’s unexpected time-traveler: Benjamin Franklin. Ben Franklin was an inventor, observer, electricity pioneer, and serial experimenter, so it’s not entirely surprising he looked to the future. But it turns out he was looking to the far, far future. In 1780 he wrote a letter to a friend in which he lamented that he was born during the dawn of science.

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