Anti Ageing Conference London
The BSAAM's 13th Annual Anti Ageing Conference London 2016 will be held
October 13-15 in London. Our Aubrey de Grey, Marios Kyriazis, and Avijit
Roy will be participating.
Learn more at http://www.antiageingconference.com
Mobile Payments Latin America Summit
The Mobile Payments Latin America Summit will be held Sep 20-21 in
Miami, Florida USA. You can save $250 with the discount code
Lifeboat250. The Lifeboat Foundation is a Media Partner of this event.
Learn more at
http://www.openmobilemedia.com/mobile-p...-america
O'reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference
The O'Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference will be held September
26–27 in New York City, NY. Save 20% with discount code UGLETM.
Discover the real-world opportunities of applied artificial
intelligence. AI is (finally) driving an explosion in intelligent
software — bots, agents, voice, and IoT interfaces. Learn how to
implement AI in real-world projects today and explore what the future
holds for intelligence engineering.
Learn more at http://www.oreilly.com/pub/cpc/21225
LatAm Startups Conference
The LatAm Startups Conference 2016 will be held October 12-14 in Mexico
City, Mexico. The event aims to end the brain drain to Silicon Valley
and help Latin American high-tech startups scale.
You can get a discount by emailing
Learn more at https://www.latamstartups.biz
The Future of Humanity Conference
The Future of Humanity Conference will be held September 24, 2016 in New
York, NY.
This one-day event explores what the future means from a human
perspective — not just what technologies will take us there — but
deeper philosophical questions: How we will define sentience? How people
will choose to live and govern themselves? How we will communicate? What
is the art and ethics that humans will bring with them into this new
era?
Learn more at http://www.meetup.com/PaxSolaria/events/231517422
Eurosymposium on Healthy Ageing
The Eurosymposium on Healthy Ageing will be held Sep 29-Oct 1 in
Brussels, Belgium.
Learn more at http://www.eha-heales.org
Ljubljana Forum: Green Cities & Smart Infrastructure
Ljubljana Forum: Green Cities & Smart Infrastructure will be held
October 6-7 in Slovenia. Ljubljana Forum is an annual gathering that
combines knowledge and experience of city governance and defines key
areas, visions, and strategies of the future development of cities.
Learn more at http://www.ljubljanaforum.org/2016
ENDOTREND
ENDOTREND, a sustainable festival of music + art + education + film,
will be held October 1 in Denver, Colorado, USA.
Learn more at http://www.endotrend.com/projects
Capital Markets Blockchain Conference
The Capital Markets Blockchain Conference will be held September 9 in
London. This conference is focused on bringing together financial
institutions and investment and trading experts with those at the
cutting edge of #Fintech development in the cryptocurrency world.
Learn more at
http://digitalcurrencysumm.it/london-ca...ockchain
The Heroic Future
The Heroic Future: A live documentary series about reimagining the world
of tomorrow, in order to rebuild the world today will be held September
20-22 in the Bay Area, California.
Learn more at http://www.alexsteffen.com/thf_tickets
8 Laws of Change
8 Laws of Change: How to be an agent of personal and social
transformation will be held September 28–October 2 in Vancouver, BC,
Canada.
Learn more at https://hollyhock.ca/programinfo/stephe...schwartz
GlideWing Online Workshop
The GlideWing online workshop: Opening to the Infinite will be held
September 3-25.
Learn more at
http://www.glidewing.com/sas/opening_to...ome.html
Devcon2
Devcon2 will be held September 19–21 in Shanghai, China. This conference
discusses Ethereum R&D and topics relevant to the Ethereum development
community.
Learn more at https://ethereumfoundation.org/devcon
Immersive Technology Summit
The Immersive Technology Summit will be held October 11 in Bellevue,
Washington, USA. This summit discusses virtual, augmented, and mixed
reality technologies.
Learn more at http://immersesummit.com
Mars City PowerLab Workshop
Mars City PowerLab Workshop 2016 will be held September 15-28 and will
be hosted by the University of Southern California.
Learn more at http://www.marscityfoundation.org
Bitcoin Wednesday
Bitcoin Wednesday 39 will be held September 7 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Free tickets are available at http://www.meetup.com/BitcoinWednesday/...26293637
AI for Scientific Progress
AI for Scientific Progress: Bringing Digital Control to Physical Matter
will be held September 30-October 2 in Palo Alto, California.
Learn more at http://ai2016.foresight.org
Machines That Think
Watch "Machines That Think: The good, bad and scary of Artificial Intelligence" by James Canton at TEDxMarin on September 17th in California at http://www.tedxmarin.org
Greg Bear Wins Galaxy Award
Our Greg Bear has received the 27th Annual Galaxy Award from publisher
SFWorld in China, as China's favorite foreign SF author!
Learn more at http://www.gregbear.com/news.php#52
OncoSENS Control Alt Delete Cancer
Support OncoSENS Control ALT Delete Cancer at
https://www.lifespan.io/campaigns/sens-...e-cancer
This program implements high-throughput screening of a library of
diverse drugs to find treatments for 'ALT' cancers, those which rely on
Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres.
Human Underwater Society
Learn about the Human Underwater Society at http://www.humanunderwatersociety.org
Books
Read "Future Smart: Managing the Game-Changing Trends that Will Transform Your World" at http://amzn.to/2bp0XOm
Blog
Elmar Arunov joins our blog team with the post "How Today's Jungle of
Artificial Intelligence Will Spawn Sentience" at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/08/how-to...entience
Blair Erickson joins our blog team with the post "How to Build Your Own
Starter House in Just 5 Steps — for $25,000" at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/08/how-to...or-25000
Carse Peel joins our blog team with the post "The Chimera Quandary: Is It
Ethical To Create Hybrid Embryos?" at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/08/the-ch...-embryos
Recent interesting blog posts include:
"Aubrey de Grey — Pushing back Death" by Steve Hill at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/08/aubrey...ck-death
"The Cosmic Speed Limit" by Andreas Matt at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/08/the-co...ed-limit
"A First: Israeli Scientists 'Have Used the Human Mind to Control Nano
Robots Inside a Living Creature'" by Shailesh Prasad at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/08/a-firs...creature
"Flirtey flies pies for Domino's in New Zealand" by Shailesh Prasad at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/08/flirte...-zealand
"How quantum computers will change the world of hacking" by Karen Hurst
at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/08/how-qu...-hacking
"If You Edit Genes Using CRISPR, Can You Undo the Effects?" by Roman
Mednitzer at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/08/if-you...-effects
"Liquid Metals to 'Soft-Wire' Elastic Electronics" by Karen Hurst at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/08/liquid...ctronics
"Menopause reversed as scientists successfully 'rejuvenate women's ovaries'"
by Steve Hill at http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/08/menopa...-ovaries
"Now You Can Print Parts For Your Motherboards With 3D Printer" by Karen
Hurst at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/08/now-yo...-printer
"Pal-V One Flying Car" by Elmar Arunov at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/08/pal-v-...ying-car
"Physicist finds entanglement instantly gives rise to a wormhole" by
Andreas Matt at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/08/physic...wormhole
"Quantum correlations do not imply instant causation" by Andreas Matt at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/08/quantu...ausation
"Ray Kurzweil Explores How Self-Driving Cars Will Choose Between Life or
Death" by Elmar Arunov at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/08/ray-ku...or-death
"SpaceX's biggest rival is developing 'space trucks' to ferry cargo in an
orbital economy" by Klaus Baldauf at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/08/spacex...-economy
"The 'star in a jar' that could provide limitless energy on Earth: US
Government reveals experiments to create compact fusion plants" by Carse
Peel at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/08/the-st...n-plants
"'Terminators' will be built by our enemies, says top US military chief"
by Dan Kummer at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/08/termin...ry-chief
"Tesla Unveils the World’s Fastest Production Car: 0 to 60 in 2.5
Seconds" by Shailesh Prasad at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/08/tesla-...-seconds
"This russian billionaire has a plan to explore Proxima b, our closest
Earth-like planet" by Klaus Baldauf at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/08/this-r...e-planet
Growing Membership
Recent donations/pledges we have received since our last newsletter:
Michael Dickey: $85,
Sergio M.L. Tarrero: $85,
Philippe Van Nedervelde: $85,
Kenneth P. Weiss: $85,
Mike Hädrench: $50,
Venita Davis: $25,
Nicholas MacDonald: $25,
Matthew L. McGuirl: $25,
Brent L. Reitze: $25,
3D Forged: $20,
Anonymous: $10,
Rebecca R. Cooper: $10,
Alexander Macrae: $10,
Philip Morehead: $10,
Roland Schiefer: $10,
Peter Smafield: $10,
Joel D. Ticknor: $10,
Best Gaming Desks: $5,
Executive SEO: $5,
FutureClick Media: $5,
Motleys Group Private Investigators: $5,
Photogenia: $5,
Break The Web: $2,
Laser Hair Removal Darwin: $2,
Storage Gold Coast: $2,
Charleston SEO: $1,
Colink Marketing: $1,
Como Cuidar de Orquídeas: $1,
Hanuman Chalisa: $1,
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Scataway Marketing: $1,
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Our Join Us page at https://lifeboat.com/ex/join.us now allows you to
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