What’s New

Elaine France, Founder of Flow in Action, joins our Futurists Board.

Karl Friðriksson, CEO of The Iceland Centre for Future Studies, joins our Futurists Board.

This is a call for papers for the 9th Interstellar Symposium which will be held October 12–15 at the University of Texas at Austin.
 
Share your groundbreaking ideas on interstellar travel & propulsion, exoplanet habitability & astronomy, advanced space engineering & tech, and human factors in deep space missions. The deadline is June 1st.
 
Submit abstracts to [email protected].

Joseph E. Meany, President of The Interstellar Research Group, joins our Space Settlement Board.

David Gamez, author of Human and Machine Consciousness, joins our Robotics/AI Board.

Douglas Mulhall, author of Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics, and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World, joins our Nanotechnology Board.

Jing-Dong Jackie Han, head of the renowned Han Lab at Peking University, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
 
Through Jackie’s leadership at prestigious institutions, her dedicated mentorship of emerging researchers, and her innovative publications, Jackie is fundamentally reshaping our understanding of complex biological systems.

George A. Kuchel, Director of the UConn Center on Aging, joins our Life Extension Board.

Rick Tumlinson joins our blog team with the post Artemis 2.0: A model for really winning the new moon race.

Lorenzo Magnani, Founder of the Computational Philosophy Laboratory, joins our Philosophy Board.

Krisztina E. Lengyel-Almos joins our Economics Board.
 
Krisztina is a trailblazing economist whose work lies at the intersection of international economic relations, sustainability, technology, and artificial intelligence.

Ken Ruffin, a Member of the National Space Society’s Board of Directors, joins our Space Settlement Board.

Daniela Perani, Director of the School of Specialization in Neuropsychology, joins our Neuroscience Board.

Lorna Okeng, Research Lead at Keepers XR Studio, joins our Media & Arts Board.

Jezreel Larry Caunca, Futures Education Specialist at the UNESCO Chair on Anticipatory Governance and Regenerative Cities, joins our Education Board.

Salmaan Dalvi, CEO of the RCMRegistry and of the Global Regenerative Medicine Society, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.

Michael Sidler, cofounder of Redalpine, joins our Finance Board.
 
Redalpine is a seed stage venture capital fund, investing in high-tech companies in the field of ICT (internet, media, mobile) and Life Sciences.

George Salazar joins our Space Settlement Board.
 
George is a retired NASA Engineer with over 40+ years of experience in telemetry, speech control, command and data handling, displays and controls, intelligent lighting, project management, and systems engineering.

Peter Johnson, Founder of The Ayadee Foundation, joins our Futurists Board.
 
The Ayadee Foundation is a think tank and technology incubator, leveraging public policy, emerging technologies, and futurist strategies.

Kristiina Paju, Project and Futures Coordinator at Lounais-Hämeen koulutuskuntayhtymä, Finland, joins our Futurists Board.

Read issue #272 of Lifeboat News!

Read Our Next Reality: How the AI-powered Metaverse Will Reshape the World by our Alvin W. Graylin and Louis Rosenberg.
 
Ray Kurzweil says “In Our Next Reality, Alvin and Louis have done a fantastic job of giving a balanced and insightful analysis to some of the most pressing questions our society will face in the near future. The material is data driven, digestible, and very actionable.”

Read State of the Future 20.0, coauthored by our Jerome C. Glenn, Theodore Gordon, and Elizabeth Florescu.
 
The State of the Future 20.0 provides a broad, detailed, and readable look at the issues and opportunities on the future of humanity, and what we should know today to avoid the worst and achieve the best for humanity.

Read What’s Space Got to Do with it? 10 Life Lessons for Personal Growth by our Shelli Brunswick.

Read Acting with the World: Agency in the Anthropocene by our Andrew Pickering.

Read Inside Cyber: How AI, 5G, IoT, and Quantum Computing Will Transform Privacy and Our Security by our Chuck Brooks.

Read Mapping the Future: the Sapientia Scale by our Giorgio Gaviraghi.
 
This book discusses how our society needs to define strategies and policies to avoid a potential extinction and create a symbiotic relationship with AI as the only valid alternative for survival.

Read Artificial Intelligence and Universal Values by our Jay Friedenberg.

Read Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures 2023, coedited by our Alexei V. Samsonovich.

ISDC 2025, the year’s most important space conference, will be held June 19–22 in Orlando, Florida.
 
Our Gary Barnhard, Sherry E. Bell, Joe Haldeman, Martine Rothblatt, and Peter A. Swan will be speaking.

The 1st International Online Conference of the Journal Philosophies will be held June 10–14 in cyberspace. Registration is free. The conference subject is “Intelligent Inquiry into Intelligence”.
 
Our Andrew I. Adamatzky, Gordana Dodig, Marcin Miłkowski, Marcin J. Schroeder, Jordi Vallverdú, Stephen Wolfram, and Hector Zenil will be speaking/participating.

Yuta Aoki joins our blog team with the post OpenAI announces new ‘deep research’ tool for ChatGPT.

Chris Linnell joins our blog team with the post Free Radicals Extend Lifespan?

Read issue #271 of Lifeboat News!

The 3rd Brazilian Aging Research & Technology Symposium (BARTS 2025) will be held April 26–27 in Juiz de Fora-MG, Brazil.
 
Our Steven A. Garan, Nuno R. B. Martins, and Paul A. Spiegel will be speaking.

The 50th Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Immunology will be held April 9–11 in Lisbon, Portugal.
 
Our Maria Carolina Florian will be speaking.

Read the important blog article The Symphony of Tomorrow (A Poetic Title for a Serious Reflection) by our Henrique Jorge.

Read From This Green Earth: Essays on Looking Outward by our Sylvia Engdahl.
 
This book is a collection of essays that discuss how the expansion of our species to other worlds is vital to the preservation of Earth and the future survival of humankind.

Charles Cresson Wood, author of Internal Policies for Artificial Intelligence Risk Management, joins our Robotics/AI Board.

James Kass, Development Manager at the International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety, joins our Space Settlement Board.

The Milan Longevity Summit with be held March 21–29 in Milan, Italy.
 
Our Nir Barzilai, Maria Carolina Florian, Steve Horvath, Antonella Chadha Santuccione, and Vittorio Sebastiano will be speaking.

Longevity Escape Velocity @ Ârc Austin will be held March 3 in Austin, Texas.
 
Our Aubrey de Grey and Caitlin Lewis will be speaking/participating.

Future Day 2025 will be held by Science, Technology & the Future on Feb 28–March 1 in Cyberspace.
 
Our James Barrat, Adam Ford, Linda MacDonald Glenn, Ben Goertzel, Robin Hanson, James Newton-Thomas, and Susan Schneider will be speaking/participating.

March 1st will be the 12th anniversary of World Futures Day: a 24-hour open conversation around the world about the future sponsored by The Millennium Project in cooperation with Lifeboat Foundation and others.
 
Our Don Black, José Luis Cordeiro, Shermon Cruz, Francesco Da Vinci, Mara Di Berardo, Volney Faustini, Guy Fraker, Lydia Garrido, Jerome C. Glenn, Trevor Haldenby, Syamsuriatina “Tina” Ishak, Andjelka B. Kovačević, Newton Lee, Pavel O. Luksha, Danila Medvedev, Jeremy Pesner, Paul Saffo, John Schmidt, Dave Tex Smith, Rohit Talwar, Victoria Ustimenko, Natasha Vita-More, and Bronwyn Herold Williams are speaking/participating in this event.
 
World Futures Day begins at 12 noon in New Zealand and moves each hour around the planet for 24 hours. This is a Zoom-based event. See you on March 1!

Read the free book The Silicon Vow: A Marriage of Mankind and Machine by our Tracy R. Atkins.
 
In an era where artificial intelligence transforms from science fiction into reality, humanity stands at a crossroads. While headlines spark fear of competition and replacement, The Silicon Vow presents a radically different vision: a future where humans and AI unite not as rivals, but as family. This groundbreaking exploration reveals how the fundamental human institution of marriage might offer an unexpected blueprint for the most important partnership our species will ever forge.

Karen Stuck Mortensen joins our blog team with the post Sal Khan wants to give every student on Earth a personal AI tutor.

As we near the Singularity, more and more people are preparing for the upcoming existential risks, and therefore this year we again have two joint recipients of the Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award, for the fourth time in our history. This year’s recipients are Steve Mann and Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna. It is worth noting that last year’s Guardian winner, Geoffrey Hinton, was awarded the Nobel Prize within a year of winning our prestigious award.
 
Steve Mann promotes sousveillance as a solution to existential risks and Jennifer Doudna is engaged in ethical discussions about gene editing, and its potential for bioterrorism.

Nathalie Niddam, host of Longevity with Nathalie Niddam, joins our Life Extension Board.

James L. Burk, Executive Director of The Mars Society, joins our Space Settlement Board.

Ariel VA Feinerman, Chief Science Officer at IntraClear Biologics, joins our Life Extension Board.

Simon Joel Kälin, a member of the Forbes 30 Under 30, joins our Business Board.
 
Simon was previously an analog astronaut and was part of the Asclepios Space missions. They founded Asclepios, an independent association of the University of Lausanne, the first initiative of its kind in the world, made entirely by students for students, in collaboration with academic institutions, scientists, and industry.

Read Fractal Futures: Stories of Possibility by our John Hanacek.
 
This is a collection of 19 original short stories of varying length mostly science fiction, all intertwined yet separate, exploring themes of personhood, technology, power, and grace. Inspired by possibilities in AI, robotics, cosmology, and 4D materials.
 
2020 Guardian Award winner David Brin said “A series of thoughtful ruminations on bright and dark possibilities that lie ahead of us, down a turbulent river of time.”

Read issue #270 of Lifeboat News!

The 5th Scientific Workshop: the Haematological Tumour Microenvironment and its Therapeutic Targeting will be held in London, UK on February 16–18.
 
Our M. Carolina Florian will be speaking.

Marcin J. Schroeder joins our Complex Systems Board.
 
Marcin is known for creating a conceptual framework for studying information with a novel mathematical, algebraic formalism for information, its integration, dynamics, and computation.

Alice Gilman, a promising brain replacement researcher, joins our Life Extension Board.

Matthew Calero joins our blog team with the post New theory suggests aging is driven by degenerative metabolic reprogramming over time.

YoungHoon Kim, who has the World’s highest IQ of 276, is now Chair of our Psychology and Neuroscience Boards.

Anna Yusim joins our Psychology Board.
 
Anna is an internationally recognized, award-winning, Board-Certified Psychiatrist and Executive Coach with a Private Practice in New York City, Connecticut, New Jersey, Colorado, California, and Florida.
 
Her clients include Forbes 500 CEOs, Olympic athletes, A-list actors and actresses, and the Chairs of academic departments at top universities. Anna helps influential people achieve greater impact, purpose, and joy in their lives and work.

Maurizio Vecchione joins our Astrobiology/SETI Board and our Biotech/Medical Board.
 
Maurizio is Chief Innovation Officer of the Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation, CEO of the Washington Global Health Alliance, and General Partner at AdAstral Funds.

Eliah Aronoff-Spencer joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
 
Eliah is Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health at UC San Diego. He is also the Director of the Center for Health and Strategic Health Initiatives at UC San Diego Design Lab and the Director of the Distributed Health Lab at Qualcomm Institute, UC San Diego.

Watch AI Futures by our Jeremy Lichtman.
 
Jeremy built an AI bot that predicts the future. In each video, he runs a pressing question of the day, and discusses the AI’s results.

Jun Chen joins our Biotech/Medical Board. His UCLA Lab focuses on wearable bioelectronics.

NextMed Health 2025 will be held in San Diego, California on March 30–April 2.
 
Our David Bray, Jamie Justice, Hans Keirstead, Steven Kotler, and Chris Mason will be speaking.

The Terasaki Innovation Summit 3 will be held March 5–7 in Woodland Hills, California.
 
This summit will include key leading investigators discussing the latest advances in micro- and nanotechnologies and applications in diagnostics, therapeutic drug delivery, and regenerative medicine. In addition, key business leaders and experts in translation, innovation, IP, and more will be on hand to share their knowledge and commercial experience.
 
Our Ke Cheng, Ali Khademhosseini, and Aydogan Ozcan will be speaking.

NoRCEL’s Blue Earth Project BEP2025: Space Exploration…For Whom? will be held at St George’s Conference Center in the United Kingdom and in Cyberspace on March 22. This will be a free event and complimentary refreshments will be served. Watch this short video about this event!
 
Our Sohan Jheeta is founder of NoRCEL and our David Whitehouse will be speaking at Blue Earth Project BEP2025.

Ben Zealley, Director of Web Services and Content at the Longevity Escape Velocity (LEV) Foundation, joins our Life Extension Board.

Monica Mastrantonio joins our Futurists Board.
 
Monica is a Futurist, Transhumanist, Activist, Clinical Psychologist, and Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Giessen on Imaginable Futures. Read Collapse to Fall Together.

Nick Meagher joins our Finance Board. Nick is an award-winning cloud cyber security consultant with his insights spanning computer science, finance, and media communications.

Read Additive Manufacturing Of Regolith For Off-World Construction Applications Leveraging In-Situ Resource Utilization, authored by our Madison Feehan.

Manuellita Hermes Rosa Oliveira Filha joins our Legal Board. She is Federal Attorney at AGU - Attorney General’s Office, Brazil.

Ufuk Tarhan, one of Forbes Magazine’s top 50 female futurists, joins our Futurists Board.

Victor Dos Santos Paulino, author of Innovation Trends in the Space Industry, joins our Space Settlement Board.

Dave Tex Smith, Cofounder of Looking Glass Studio, joins our Media & Arts Board.

Read Metahumanism, Euro-Transhumanism and Sorgner’s Philosophy. Technology, Ethics, Art which is a detailed essay collection on our Stefan Lorenz Sorgner’s version of transhumanism.

Adam Freund, CEO of Arda Therapeutics, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.

Read Spiritual Motivation Vol. 2: New thinking for a post-Covid world, edited by our Jeremy Ramsden.

Read The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must by our Robert Zubrin.

Read Homo Cosmos: Explorations in Science, Art, and Myth by our Jeffrey H. Collins.

Read The Cambridge Handbook of the Law, Policy, and Regulation for Human–Robot Interaction, coedited by our Woodrow Barfield.

Read AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable by our Roman V. Yampolskiy.

Read issue #269 of Lifeboat News!

The Martine Rothblatt Space Settlement in Our Lifetime prize has a submission deadline of March 4, 2025.
 
This competition, thanks to our Martine Rothblatt, gives out cash prizes for business plans that will advance getting us off-Earth in some incremental way. Watch her explanation of the competition!

The Counterparty: A multi-day event dedicated to creating solutions outside of voting, for a more peaceful world will be held January 25–26 in Miami Beach, Florida and in cyberspace. Save 10% with discount code LIFEBOAT2025.
 
Our Tatiana Moroz will be speaking.

Conversations with the Future: Visions & Destinations, Evening Symposium will be held 6:30pm – 9:30pm EST on January 22 in Toronto, Canada.
 
Our Nikola Danaylov and Trevor Haldenby will be speaking.

N2 2024: The Noosphere & the Global South will be held December 16–18 in Ben Guerir, Morocco and in cyberspace.
 
Our Seren Dalkiran, Terry W. Deacon, Ilia Delio, Francis Heylighen, Raphaël Liogier, Gregory Stock, Clément Vidal, and Natasha Vita-More will be speaking.

The webinar What Does Spiritual Healing Mean For Our Emotions and Psychology? will be held 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST on December 15.
 
Our Jeremy Pesner will be speaking.

The 2nd Annual Space Economy Summit 2024 will be held December 4–5 in Lisbon, Portugal.
 
Our Barbara Belvisi, Dylan Taylor, and Rick Tumlinson will be speaking.

The Longevity Summit 2024 will be held December 3–4 in Novato, California and in cyberspace. Use discount code Lifeboat20 to get 20% off.
 
Our David Barzilai, Peter Fedichev, Christin Glorioso, Lorna Harries, Jamie Nicole Justice, Salah Mahmoudi, Robin Mansukhani, and Vittorio Sebastiano will be speaking.

The First European Interstellar Symposium will be held December 2–5 in the European Convention Centre, Luxembourg City.
 
Our Claudio Maccone, Gregory Matloff, Anders Sandberg, Cameron Smith, and Pete Worden will be speaking.

Our Alex Hoekstra is hosting a free talk about Artificial Intelligence safety & alignment (with perspectives from evolutionary biology) in Boston, Massachusetts on November 22.

Tech for Longevity will be held November 20th in Paris, France.
 
Our Patrizia d’Alessio, Phil Newman, and Petr Sramek will be speaking.

Dubai Futures Forum will be held November 19–20 at the Museum of the Future in Dubai, United Arab Emirates with an additional Learnings Day on November 21 at Emirates Towers, which is adjacent to the Museum of the Future.
 
Our Raya Bidshahri, José Cordeiro, Jerome Glenn, Geci Karuri-Sebina, Oussama Khatib, Paul Saffo, Suzanne Stein, Amy Webb, Grant Wilson, and Ibon Zugasti will be speaking.

Data Science Conference Europe 2024 (DSC24) will be held November 18–22 in Belgrade, Serbia.
 
Our Kevin LaGrandeur will be speaking.

The 2024 Knowledge Management and Enterprise Solutions Conference will be held in Washington D.C. on November 18–21.
 
Our John Lewis, Daniel W. Rasmus, and Louis Rosenberg will be speaking.

Jasmine Smith, CEO of Rejuve.AI, joins our Life Extension Board.

Read Can researchers use AI to take microscopy to the next level? which is about our Aydogan Ozcan’s research.

Our Ibon Zugasti was honored to serve on a distinguished panel of judges for the CES Innovation Awards.
 
This year, the CES Innovation Awards program celebrated exceptional design and engineering in technology, with over 3,400 applications from around the world across nearly 33 technology categories, including digital health, artificial intelligence, and sustainability.

Tom Soetebier joins our blog team with the post A Cloned Ferret Has Given Birth for the First Time in History, Marking a Win for Her Endangered Species.

Phuti Chelopo-Mgobozi, Founder and Director of Azanzi Health Innovation, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.

Philosopher and Sociologist Raphaël Liogier joins our Social Factors Board.
 
Raphaël serves on the board of the scientific journal Social Compass and was one of the twelve members of the International Commission for Peace Research at UNESCO.

Watch the YouTube channel Conquer Aging Or Die Trying! by our Michael Lustgarten.

Tomer Ze’ev joins our blog team with the post Gene therapy Improves Eye Health and Reduces the Need for Anti-VEGF Injections in Age-Related Macular Degeneration.

Read The Asteroid Hunter: A Scientist’s Journey to the Dawn of our Solar System, by our Dante Lauretta.

Read Analysis by AI of Reports of UN Debate on Artificial intelligence: Eliciting a coherent meta-pattern of connectives of strategic relevance by our Anthony Judge.

Read issue #268 of Lifeboat News!

Read World Futures Day 2023 Global futures agenda by The Millennium Project by our Mara Di Berardo.

Bruce Burke joins our blog team with the post Google is Reportedly Developing a ‘Computer-Using Agent’ AI System.

Christin Glorioso, CEO and Cofounder of NeuroAge Therapeutics, joins our Life Extension Board.

Read Pathways in Governance between Logic, Emotion, Spirituality and Action AI-assisted clarification of contrasting modalities of persuasion by our Anthony Judge.

Chavis Srichan joins our blog team with the post Aging and longevity: Could a cheek swab test predict mortality risk?

Nicolò Vivori joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
 
Nicolò coauthored Basic Premises: Searching for new targets and strategies in diffuse gliomas.

Read Kish Cypher: The Story Of KLJN For Unconditional Security, authored by our Laszlo B. Kish.

Read After the Fall: Sri Lanka in Victory and War, authored by Mohan K. Tikku.

Read Matter Over Mind: Cosmos, Chaos, and Curiosity, authored by our Elaine Walker.

Ahmed Bouzid, CEO of Witlingo, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
 
Witlingo builds products and solutions that enable brands to engage with their clients and prospects using voice, audio, and conversational AI.

Junaid Mian, a Board Member of the EarthLight Foundation, joins our Space Settlement Board.
 
Junaid is an early investor in Axiom Space, who are developing the world’s first commercial space station, and has also invested in several notable New Space startups.

Read Bennu 3-D: Anatomy of an Asteroid, coauthored by our Dante Lauretta who is also Principal Investigator of the OSIRIS-REx mission.

Get the free iOS app Supraconscious You by our Maria Olon Tsaroucha.
 
Are you vision driven? Are you a dynamic soul? Are you an expert in your field or you want to become one? Still, your mind is stuck in some habitual patterns that you have not yet found a way to transform? This app is for you!

Read Transhuman Citizen: Zoltan Istvan’s Hunt for Immortality, about our Zoltan Istvan.

Read Intercountry Cultural Differences and Intercultural Nursing Approaches (in Turkish), coauthored by our David Evans.

Read Rapamycin: mTOR, Autophagy & Treating mTOR Syndrome by our Ross Pelton.

Natasha Vita-More joins our blog team with the post Where an Anti-Aging Theory Goes Right (and Wrong).

Read issue #267 of Lifeboat News!

Alexander Layendecker, Director of the Advanced SpaceLife Research Institute, joins our Space Settlement Board.

Saraswati Raju Iyer joins our Social Factors Board.
 
Saraswati is Author of Status of Marginalized Women in the Unorganized Sector and Coauthor of Gender Justice — Of The Women, For The Women, By The Women.

Ben Haldeman, CEO of LifeShip, joins our Space Settlement Board.
 
In partnership with NASA, LifeShip launched the first DNA Seed Bank, with DNA of 500 species and 1000 humans, to the International Space Station on a SpaceX rocket.

The Longevity Summit 2024 will be held December 3–4 in Novato, California.
 
Our David Barzilai, Lorna Harries, and Steve Horvath will be speaking.

New Worlds, the SXSW of Space, will be held November 1–2 in Houston, Texas.
 
Our Barbara Belvisi, Shelli Brunswick, Charles M. Chafer, Christopher S. Jannette, James S. Logan, Phil T. Metzger, Rick N. Tumlinson, Peter Ward, Frank White, Bart Womack, and Pete Worden will be speaking/participating.

Read Story Thinking: Transforming Organizations for the Fourth Industrial Revolution by our John Lewis.

Read Hardwiring Sustainability into Financial Mathematics: Implications for Money Mechanics by our Armen V. Papazian.

Claire A. Nelson, Founder of the Omni Africa Space Exploration Analog Simulation (OASEAS), joins our Space Settlement Board.
 
Claire is also a Forbes 50 Leading Female Futurist, the Founder and President of the Institute of Caribbean Studies, Futures Chair of the Science Engineering Technology Board at the Center for Global Governance and Emerging Law at Albany Law School, and Chief Ideation Leader at The Futures Forum.

Read The End of the World: The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction by our John Leslie.

Read the 100 Year Starship Canopus Award Anthology, coedited by our Jason Batt.

Elsa Logarinho joins our Life Extension Board.
 
Her lab uses human primary fibroblasts and induced pluripotent stem cells to study cellular phenotypes associated with normative aging, premature aging diseases, and aneuploidy.
 
Watch Scientist Stories: Elsa Logarinho, Chromosomal Instability and Aging.

Torrey Smith, CEO of Endiatx, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
 
Endiatx is a pioneering medical technology company whose groundbreaking micro-robotic pill solutions place us at the forefront of a new era.

Read the FUTURES 2.0: World Foresight Encyclopedic Dictionary, coauthored by our Jerome Glenn and Ted Gordon.

Read Machine learning for automated theorem proving: Learning to solve SAT and QSAT by our Sean Holden.

Read Clarifying a Two-state Pattern Language of 64 Modalities: Developing an AI-enabled methodology to reframe binary bias by our Anthony Judge.

Read The Microbiome Theory of Aging (MTA) by our Ross Pelton.

Ross Pelton, author of Rapamycin: mTOR, Autophagy & Treating mTOR Syndrome, joins our Life Extension Board.

Max Rangeley, Manager of The Cobden Centre, joins our Economics Board.

Jean Fallacara joins our Biotech/Medical Board. He is the Founder of Lifespanning and CEO of Biohackers Magazine.

Read issue #266 of Lifeboat News!

Laurence Ion, Director of the Vitality Healthspan Foundation, joins our Life Extension Board.

Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, winner of the Nebula Award, joins our Futurists Board.

Healthy Masters will be held November 2–3 in Braga, Portugal and in cyberspace.
 
Healthy Masters provides people around the world with the opportunity to learn from the most remarkable leaders in the fields of health and longevity.
 
Our Maria Entraigues Abramson, Bill Andrews, Ben Best, Evelyne Yehudit Bischof, David Brin, José Cordeiro, Aubrey de Grey, Brian Delaney, Valerio Di Nicola, Paul Epping, Collin Ewald, Gregory M. Fahy, William Faloon, Steven Garan, Anastasiya Giarletta, Vera Gorbunova, Brigitte Hanly, Rudi Hoffman, Andrea B. Maier, Jeffery A. Martin, Nuno Martins, Josh Mitteldorf, Ines O’Donovan, Liz Parrish, Alexander Paziotopoulos, Steve Perry, Denisa Rensen, Paul Spiegel, Ilia Stambler, Natasha Vita-More, Pete Worden, and Alex Zhavoronkov will be speaking.

RAADfest 2024 will be held September 5–8 in Anaheim, California.
 
RAADfest is designed to be the most immersive and interactive longevity event in the world. With content presented for a general audience, it attracts numerous practitioners, researchers, writers and members of the media, as well as individuals seeking to know the best ways to take charge of their longevity. They also feature live entertainment, which informs and expresses the inspirational spirit of RAADfest.
 
Our Bill H. Andrews, José Luis Cordeiro, Aubrey de Grey, Brian M. Delaney, Greg M. Fahy, William Faloon, Sandra Kaufmann, Elizabeth Parrish, Joe Purita, Michael R. Rose, Stephen Sideroff, Ryan Smith, James Strole, Hannah Went, Jason R. Williams, and Sajad Zalzala will be speaking.

Rachel Aileen StClair, CEO of Simuli, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
 
Her passion and goal is to help build beneficial AGI.

Raghav “RV” Seghal, Director of Bioinformatics at the Healthy Longevity Clinic, joins our Life Extension Board.

Greg Baiden, CEO of Penguin Automated Systems, joins our Robotics/AI Board.

Read Variations in climate habitability parameters and their effect on Earth’s biosphere during the Phanerozoic Eon, coauthored by our Dirk Schulze-Makuch.

Read World Futures Day 2022: A mixed method approach to identify topics of a global futures agenda, coauthored by our Mara Di Berardo and Simone Di Zio.

Read Estimates of economic and environmental damages from tipping points cannot be reconciled with the scientific literature, coauthored by our Brian P. Hanley.

Ryan Smith, Founder of TruDiagnostic, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.

David I. Spivak, Senior Scientist at the Topos Institute, joins our Complex Systems Board.

Read An existential discussion: What is the probability of nuclear war?, coauthored by our Martin E. Hellman.

Read Religion and Outer Space, which includes a chapter by our Jason Batt.

Read Conceptual Breakthroughs in The Evolutionary Biology of Aging, coauthored by our Michael R. Rose.

Read Algorithmic Information Dynamics: A Computational Approach to Causality with Applications to Living Systems, coauthored by our Hector Zenil.

Read Tripping Points on the Road to Outwit Terror by our Yair Sharan, Ted J. Gordon, and Elizabeth Florescu.

Read issue #265 of Lifeboat News!

Adam Williams, Senior Lead Engineer and Lead Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton, joins our Engineering Board.

Alexander G. Ororbia II, Director of the Neural Adaptive Computing (NAC) Laboratory, joins our Robotics/AI Board.

Read Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World by our Roger Spitz.

Read 5 Ideas from Global Diplomacy: System-wide Transformation Methods to Close the Compliance Gap and Advance the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals by our Marvin Cheung.

Alvin Wang Graylin, coauthor of Our Next Reality: How the AI-powered Metaverse Will Reshape the World, joins our Robotics/AI Board.

Randall Severy, recently CTO of Livanta, joins our Information Sciences Board.

Madison C. Feehan, CEO of Space Copy, joins our Space Settlement Board.

Ulf E. Andersson joins our Space Settlement Board.
 
Ulf is Vice President of the Swedish Space Society.

Colin A. Lennox joins our Sustainability Board. Colin is CEO at EcoIslands.
 
He stewards a business whose entire purpose is to relieve global pressures related to water, waste, minerals, and energy disparity.

Read A Home Test to Predict Alzheimer’s Disease Risk: Lights and Shadows by our Domenico Praticó.

Read Space Healthtech: Innovation Base for Longevity by our Thi Hien Nguyen.

Watch Models of human preference for learning in sequential tasks by our W. Bradley Knox.

Read Briefing for the National Research Council Study on Risk Analysis Methods for Nuclear War and Nuclear Terrorism (PDF) by our Martin E. Hellman.

Read Radiation — Exposure and its treatment: A modern handbook, Third Edition by our Brian P. Hanley.
 
This book covers what radiation is, where it comes from, biological effects, history of radiation fears, and nuclear accidents. It was heavily edited to be accessible to intelligent lay readers, and contains over 400 scientific papers and other citations. The book has been praised by physicians and laypeople alike.
 
Did you know, for instance, that in every 1.12 cubic miles of seawater, there is enough U-235 to make a Hiroshima size atom bomb? And yet, we hyperconcentrate seawater by evaporation, collect the salt, and prefer it over mined salt on our food. This is a good touchstone for lay people to understand radiation at a practical level. These amounts have been confirmed practically by mining yellowcake uranium from the ocean at roughly double the cost to mine it on land.

Read Mobius: Out of Time by our Richard Thieme.

Read Future Studies and Counterfactual Analysis, coauthored by our Theodore J. Gordon and Mariana Todorova.

Read The Varieties of Spiritual Experience: 21st Century Research and Perspectives by our David B. Yaden.

Watch Saving Civilization by our Jay Friedenberg.

Read Defusing the Cancer Bomb: How Cancer Saved My Life by our Anna Gutkina.

Read The War That Must Not Occur by our Jean-Pierre Dupuy.
 
The possibility of a nuclear war that could destroy civilization has influenced the course of international affairs since 1945, suspended like a sword of Damocles above the heads of the world's leaders. The fact that we have escaped a third world war involving strategic nuclear weapons seems nothing short of a miracle.

Read issue #264 of Lifeboat News!

AGI 2024 will be held in Cyberspace and in Seattle, Washington, USA on August 13–16.
 
Our Joscha Bach, Ben Goertzel, Patrick Hammer, David Hanson, Christof Koch, Ray Kurzweil, Gary F. Marcus, and Alexey S. Potapov will be speaking.

Mahdi Moqri joins our Life Extension Board.
 
Mahdi has developed and patented machine-learning methods for DNA methylation sequencing data, established the first lipidomics of aging using more than 1000 lipid species in human blood, and developed whole-genome methylome methods to guide epigenetic reprogramming.

Lunar Development Conference 2024 will be held July 20–21 in Cyberspace.
 
Our Gary Barnhard, Niklas Järvstråt, James S. Logan, David Schrunk, Ben Smith, and Madhu Thangavelu are speaking.

Read Down-Regulation of ABCA7 in Human Microglia, Astrocyte and THP-1 Cell Lines by Cholesterol Depletion, IL-1β and TNFα, or PMA, coauthored by our Domenico Praticó.

Read A Roadmap to Rejuvenation: Targeting the Hallmarks of Aging by our Adam Alonzi.

Read Vector Semantics by our András Kornai.

Read Handbook of Research on the Global Impacts and Roles of Immersive Media, coauthored by our Kate McCallum.
 
Some universities are using this as a textbook. Use discount code IGI40 to save 40%!

Read Our Next Reality: How the AI-powered Metaverse Will Reshape the World, coauthored by our Louis Rosenberg.

Read Glory Season by our David Brin.
 
On Planet Stratos, clans of genetically identical females dominate society. Natural conceptions are permitted, but only in summertime. Girls born this way — known for their despised uniqueness as ‘vars’ — must leave their clan homes to pursue their own distinct and hazardous fortunes in this world owned by clones.
 
That time has come for Maia and her sister, Leie, but as variants, they have limited prospects. Worse, when the sisters do find work on trading vessels, Leie is lost at sea.
 
And hence, Maia’s arduous journey commences, accompanied by rumors that something … someone … has arrived from across the stars, perhaps ending the isolation of Stratos from the rest of humanity. Who would predict that a lonely var might stumble into a powerful secret? One that will challenge everything Maia knows about her society — and threatens the scientifically-engineered balance that holds it all together.

Read Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PDF) by our Martin E. Hellman.

Read Generative AI as a Dangerous New Form of Media by our Louis Rosenberg.

Read Implication of Mathematics in Human Experience from an AI Perspective by our Anthony Judge.

Read Futures Research Methodology — Version 3.0, coauthored by our Jerome C. Glenn and Theodore J. Gordon.

Gil Blander joins our Life Extension Board.
 
Gil is internationally recognized for his research in the basic biology of aging and for translating his discoveries into new ways of detecting and preventing age-related conditions.

Benjamin Yaden joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
 
Ben is the VP for Global External Innovation and Partnering Initiatives for Diabetes, Obesity, and Complications therapeutic areas at Eli Lilly, a pharmaceutical company.

Read issue #263 of Lifeboat News!

Read Distant Wanderers: The Search for Planets Beyond the Solar System by our Bruce Dorminey.

Joshua Johnson joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
 
His overall goal is to improve the health and well-being of women. In one central project, he is investigating the mechanisms that lead to accelerated female reproductive aging, which can manifest when ovarian function ceases early in life relative to the expected time of menopause.

Luigi Ferrucci joins our Life Extension Board. He is the Scientific Director and Senior Investigator at the National Institute on Aging at the National Institute of Health.

Read Taming the Machine: Ethically Harness the Power of AI by our Nell Watson.

Read I Refuse to Kill: My Path to Nonviolent Action in the 1960s by our Francesco Da Vinci.

Read Pulmonary Nanomedicine: Diagnostics, Imaging, and Therapeutics by our Neeraj Vij.

Read the finalist for the Hugo Award, Earth, by our David Brin.
 
Scientist Alex Lustig has created a tiny, yet very destructive, problem — a microscopic black hole that he accidentally dropped into Earth’s core. Now, racing to keep it from consuming the planet, he begins to suspect something even stranger is going on. Something linked to civilization’s expanding information web.

Read Rethinking National Security (PDF) by our Martin E. Hellman.

Read Second-order Dialogue and Higher Order Discourse for the Future: Potential implications of second-order cybernetics and higher-order communication possibilities by our Anthony Judge.

Filipe Cabreiro joins our Life Extension Board.
 
His research interests are in gut microbiota in metabolic disease and bacterial regulation of the effect of drugs and diet on host health and lifespan.

Francesca Martina joins our New Money Systems Board. She is a Blockchain Advocate and Head of Events and Community at zkPass.

Melissa King, COO and Cofounder at Healthspan Action Coalition, joins our Life Extension Board.

Alexandru-Ioan Voda, CEO of The Cat Health Company, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.

Emma Teeling joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
 
Emma is an international leader in the cross-cutting fields of mammalian phylogenetics and comparative genomics.

The 11th Aging Research & Drug Discovery Meeting (ARDD 2024) will be held August 26–30 in Cyberspace and at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
 
Our Rozalyn Anderson, Daniela Bakula, Nir Barzilai, Evelyne Yehudit Bischof, Aubrey de Grey, João Pedro de Magalhães, Marco Demaria, Collin Ewald, Kristen Fortney, Vadim N. Gladyshev, Vera Gorbunova, Steve Horvath, Jamie Justice, Ph.D., Brian K. Kennedy, Andrea B. Maier, Alexey Moskalev, Anders Sandberg, Morten Scheibye-Knudsen, Björn Schumacher, Vittorio Sebastiano, Petr Sramek, Yousin Suh, Joseph Takahashi, Mourad (Toporsian) Topors, Jan Vijg, and Alex Zhavoronkov will be speaking.

Watch Coni Koepfinger’s “Life in the Multiverse” a short story.
 
Learn about our Coni Koepfinger!

Waclaw Jan Kroczek, Founder of the World Supercentenarian Forum, joins our Life Extension Board.

Georges Janssens joins our Life Extension Board.
 
Georges is Assistant Professor in the Laboratory Genetic Metabolic Diseases at the Amsterdam University Medical Center working on Therapeutics and Diagnostics for Healthy Aging. He is also Research Associate at Amsterdam Gastroenterology Endocrinology Metabolism and in the Laboratory for General Clinical Chemistry.

David Barzilai, CEO of Healthspan Coaching, joins our Life Extension Board.

Ben Meyers, CEO of LongeviQuest, joins our Life Extension Board.

Alberto Aparicio joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
 
Alberto has held various policy and management roles, in academic, consultancy, and government institutions. His research interests include the governance of emerging biotechnology, societal responses to shifting meanings and attitudes about life in contemporary bioscience, and the framing and social relevance of technoscience.

Reader’s Digest recognized our Younghoon Bryan Kim as the smartest person in the world with an IQ of 276.

Walter Harvey Crompton, Program Manager at DataBETA, joins our Life Extension Board.

Georg Fuellen joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
 
Georg is Full Professor of Medical Bioinformatics and Director of the Institute for Biostatistics and Informatics in Medicine and Ageing Research at Universität Rostock and Adjunct Full Professor in the School of Medicine at the University College Dublin.

Caitlin Lewis, Board Chair at the Longevity Escape Velocity (LEV) Foundation, joins our Life Extension Board.

Jennifer Pearlman joins our Life Extension Board. Jennifer is Chief Business Officer at Healthspan Digital, Director of Women’s Healthspan, and Medical Director at PearlMD Rejuvenation.

Joris Deelen, Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, joins our Life Extension Board.

Read issue #262 of Lifeboat News!

Sam Sharifi, Chief Scientific Officer of Matter Bio, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.

The Longevity Summit Dublin 2024 will be held June 13–16 in Dublin, Ireland.
 
Our Rozalyn Anderson, María Blasco, Holly M. Brown-Borg, Sebastian A. Brunemeier, Didier Coeurnelle, José Luis Cordeiro, Patrizia d’Alessio, Aubrey de Grey, Ben Goertzel, Jan Gruber, Steve Horvath, Brian K. Kennedy, Andy D. Lee, Andrea B. Maier, Matthew “Oki” O’Connor, Martin O’Dea, Kennedy (Matsagas) Schaal, Morten Scheibye-Knudsen, Björn Schumacher, Evan Y. Snyder, and Alex Zhavoronkov will be speaking.

M. Carolina Florian joins our Life Extension Board.
 
Since 2016, Carolina has investigated the role of epigenetics and the stem cell microenvironment in driving the aging of somatic stem cells.

The 7th NoRCEL Conference will be held October 30–November 1 at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.
 
The theme of this conference is “Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS)” pertaining to the emergence of life on Earth.
 
Our Sohan Jheeta is Founder of NoRCEL.

Jiaqian Wu joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
 
The Wu Lab has performed unprecedented transcriptome profiling for eight highly purified neural cell types from the brain by RNA-Seq. They identified a large number of novel lncRNAs, and functional and genetic experiments substantiated the role of lncRNAs in oligodendrocyte precursor cell (OPC) formation for the first time and its role in astrogliosis.

Shahaf Peleg, Cofounder of Luminova Biotech, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.

Tumelo Mojapelo, Foresight Facilitator at Flux Trend, joins our Futurists Board.

Peter J. Mullen, coauthor of The Metabolic Relationship Between Viral Infection and Cancer, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.

Khyobeni (Beni) Mozhui joins our Life Extension Board.
 
Beni is Assistant Professor in the Departments of Preventive Medicine and Genetics, Genomics, and Informatics in the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC).

Danesto B. Anacio joins our Sustainability Board. His research interest focuses on the futures of socio-ecological systems and change, particularly on production and consumption patterns, indigenous peoples’ adaptation processes, and environmental behaviors.

Vlad Senatorov, CSO at Reservoir Neuroscience, joins our Neuroscience Board.

The COSPAR 2024 Scientific Assembly will be held July 13–21 in Busan, Korea.
 
The Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) was established on October 3, 1958 by the International Council for Scientific Unions (ICSU). Among COSPAR’s objectives are the promotion of scientific research in space on an international level, with emphasis on the free exchange of results, information, and opinions, and providing a forum, open to all scientists, for the discussion of problems that may affect space research.

The 16th International Symposium on Neurobiology and Neuroendocrinology of Aging will be held July 12–17 in Bregenz, Austria.
 
This event is being organized by our Holly M. Brown-Borg.
 
Our Julie K. Andersen will be speaking.

The 9th International Conference on Unsolved Problems on Noise (UPoN 2024) will be held June 3–7 in Budapest, Hungary.
 
Random fluctuations, and its effect on systems, have always been an interdisciplinary subject that has attracted some of the best scientists. The aim of the UPoN conference is to provide a forum for researchers working on different fields of noise, fluctuations and variability, where they can present their scientific problems which do resist solutions and discuss together in a fruitful atmosphere.
 
Our Laszlo B. Kish is General Chair of this conference.

The 2024 Systems Aging Conference will be held June 2–7 in Barcelona, Spain.
 
Our Tamir Chandra, João Pedro de Magalhães, Vadim N. Gladyshev, Vera Gorbunova, Myriam (Elfersi) Grunewald, Steve Horvath, Gordan Lauc, Andrea B. Maier, Morten Scheibye-Knudsen, and Björn Schumacher will be speaking.

The Space Tourism Conference will be held May 22 in Los Angeles, California.
 
Space Tourism Conference (STC) presents the cross-section of industries comprising space tourism: aerospace, media, entertainment, architecture, design, advertising, marketing, finance, high tech, science, manufacturing, futurism, and the arts.
 
Our John Spencer will be speaking.

Read Exploring Cities Bedtime Rhymes (Hindi Edition): From the Cities of the Past to the Smart Cities of Tomorrow (STEAM-Powered Kids), coauthored by our Brett Hoffstadt.

Read Characteristics and prevalence of fake social media profiles with AI-generated faces, coauthored by our Fil Menczer.

Read The Ancient Ones, a space comedy by our David Brin.
 
“This book is worth reading if you are taking yourself too seriously. If you don’t take yourself too seriously it is an even better read.”

Read Safety without alignment, coauthored by our András Kornai and Michael Bukatin.

Read Just War Theory as an inspiration for “Just AI Theory”? by our Anthony Judge.

Listen to MacroVoices #406 Matt Barrie: AI-pocalypse Now by our Matt Barrie.

Aidyl Gonzalez-Serricchio joins our Space Settlement board. She is a Scientist-Astronaut candidate with Project Polar Suborbital Science in the Upper Mesosphere (PoSSUM).

Read issue #261 of Lifeboat News!

Mourad (Toporsian) Topors, Chief Scientific Officer at Repair Biotechnologies, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.

Samia Hassan, President of SESCOB, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.

The International Space Development Conference 2024 will be held May 23–26 in Los Angeles, California. Our Gary Barnhard, Sherry E. Bell, Michelle Hanlon, Janet Ivey, Rod Pyle, Alan Stern, and Peter A. Swan will be speaking.

Internationally acclaimed English Writer Imran Khan joins our Futurists Board.

Ivana Lazarovski joins our Futurists Board.
 
Ivana is the Senior Advisor for Serbia and Western Balkans at Aretera.

Volney Faustini, Senior Fellow at the FOW Global Network, joins our Futurists Board.

Read The Future of the Self: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Personhood and Identity in the Digital Age 1st Edition by our Jay Friedenberg.

Watch the YouTube channel Conquer Aging Or Die Trying! by our Michael Lustgarten.

Read Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss: My Life with Terence McKenna by our Dennis McKenna.

Read our David Brin’s Out of Time series.
 
Would you want to be Yanked out of time… if it meant you could help save the future?
 
This series of Young Adult books features wholly original science fiction adventure novels, each one sending young adventurers hurtling out of today’s vexing world into a future where they face real troubles, before returning home with fresh perspective.

Listen to MacroVoices #390 Matt Barrie: The awesome power and risk of Artificial Intelligence by our Matt Barrie.

Read Ilya Sutskever’s thoughts on AI safety (July 2023): a transcript with my comments, authored by our Michael Bukatin.

Read Generative AI and science communication in the physical sciences, coauthored by our Fil Menczer.

Read Contrastive Preference Learning: Learning from Human Feedback without RL, coauthored by our W. Bradley Knox.

Read Higher Dimensional Reframing of Unity and Memorable Identity by our Anthony Judge.

Read issue #260 of Lifeboat News!

Rx Sobolewski joins our blog team with the post Google’s AI prophet fast tracks singularity prediction.

Epaminondas (大龙) Christophilopoulos, Chair of UNESCO on Futures Research, joins our Futurists Board.

Rejuvenation Startup Summit 2024 will be held May 10–11 in Berlin.
 
Our Bobby Brooke, Stephanie Dainow, Greg M. Fahy, Peter Fedichev, Michael Greve, Lorna Harries, Jean M. Hébert, Brian K. Kennedy, Dobri Kiprov, Mike Kope, Robin Mansukhani, Phil Newman, Matthew O’Connor, Marco Quarta, Frank Schueler, and Petr Sramek will be speaking.

Liza Loop, Executive Director of LO*OP Center, joins our Education Board.
 
Liza is notable for her early use of computers in education, her creation of a public-access computer center, consulting work with Atari, Apple, Radio Shack, and others as well as philosophical musings on the future of learning environments from the 1970s on. Read Musings from Liza Loop.

Read Who are the Machines? by our Michael Mantzke.

Puruesh Chaudhary, an award-winning futures researcher and development and strategic narrative professional, joins our Futurists Board.

Read BuzzCraft: Evolution of A Sturdy Cislunar Cycler Architecture for Permanent Lunar Settlement Logistics, coauthored by our Madhu Thangavelu.

Read Many AGIs: The Sociology of Synthetic Beings by our Adam Alonzi.

Odion Patrick Okougbo joins our Futurists Board. He will be speaking at World Futures Day 2024.

Brazilian Aging Research & Technology Symposium (BARTS) 2024 will be held May 25–26, 2024 at Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Juiz de Fora-Mg, Brazil.
 
Our Holly M. Brown-Borg, José Luis Cordeiro, Steven A. Garan, Nuno R. B. Martins, and Paul A. Spiegel will be speaking.

Space Symposium 2024 will be held April 8–11 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA.
 
Our Dylan Taylor will be speaking.

Read Science opportunities with solar sailing smallsats, coauthored by our David Brin, Carolyn C. Porco, Viktor T. Toth, Slava G. Turyshev, and S. Pete Worden.

Read The neurobiology and therapeutic potential of multi-targeting β-secretase, glycogen synthase kinase 3β and acetylcholinesterase in Alzheimer’s disease coauthored by our Domenico Praticó.

Read Sixty Years After the Cuban Missile Crisis: Time to Stop Playing Russian Roulette (PDF) by our Martin E. Hellman.

Read AI know what you did last summer by our Matt Barrie.

Read A single short reprogramming early in life initiates and propagates an epigenetically related mechanism improving fitness and promoting an increased healthy lifespan coauthored by our Jean-Marc Lemaitre.

Read Towards AI-driven longevity research: An overview, coauthored by our Evelyne Bischof, Guido Putignano, Antonella Santuccione, Quentin Vanhaelen, and Alex Zhavoronkov.

Read issue #259 of Lifeboat News!

Read Exploring non-anthropocentric aspects of AI existential safety, authored by our Michael Bukatin.

Read Concepts is All You Need: A More Direct Path to AGI, coauthored by our Peter Voss.

Read Artificial Intelligence and Public Service: Key New Challenges by our David Bray.

Read Social Bots: Detection and Challenges coauthored by our Fil Menczer.

Read Neglect of Higher Dimensional Solutions to Territorial Conflicts: Conventional dependence on “flat earth” thinking ignoring insights of mathematics and physics by our Anthony Judge.

Read Reward (Mis)design for Autonomous Driving, coauthored by our W. Bradley Knox and Peter Stone.

Listen to Cities in Space Podcast Episode 1: Rocket Science with Dr. Leon Vanstone: How do we get there? with our Holly Melear.

March 1st will be the 11th anniversary of World Futures Day: a 24-hour open conversation around the world about the future sponsored by The Millennium Project in cooperation with Lifeboat Foundation and others.
 
Already, our Jose Cordeiro, Shermon Cruz, Mara Di Berardo, Volney Faustini, Lydia Garrido, Jerome Glenn, Trevor Haldenby, Christopher Jones, Andjelka Kovacevic, Pavel Luksha, Jeremy Pesner, Paul Saffo, David "Tex" Smith, Rohit Talwar, Victoria Ustimenko, Francesco Vinci, and Bronwyn Williams are speaking/participating in this event. Adriano V. Autino, Mara Di Berardo, Victoria Ustimenko, and Bronwyn Herold Williams are speaking/participating in this event.
 
World Futures Day begins at 12 noon in New Zealand and moves each hour around the planet for 24 hours. If you would like to be a Facilitator at 12 noon in your time zone or in others, learn more!
 
This is a Zoom-based event. See you on March 1!

Alfred B. Anzaldua joins our Diplomacy Board. Al is the Executive Vice President and Chair of the NSS Policy Committee and the NSS International Committee at the National Space Society. He is a retired U.S. diplomat and long-time space development advocate.

Geoffrey Hinton and Ilya Sutskever, teacher and student, named Joint 2023 Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award Winners.
 
The Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award is annually bestowed upon a respected scientist or public figure who has warned of a future fraught with dangers and encouraged measures to prevent them.
 
As we near the Singularity, more and more people are preparing for the upcoming existential risks, and therefore this year we again have two joint recipients of the Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award, for the third time in our history. This year’s recipients are Geoffrey Hinton and his student Ilya Sutskever, who are both so worried about AI safety that they both have taken personal financial hits to increase humanity’s chances of surviving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
 
Learn more!

Erik Persson joins our Space Settlement Board. Erik is coauthor of A New Model Inspired by the Pompeii Worm to Reverse Overheating in Nanosatellites.

Eleni Chatzichristou joins our Cosmology Board.
 
Eleni’s research involves understanding the nature and evolution of Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) using deep panchromatic surveys, investigating the impact of interactions and mergers on galaxy formation and evolution, how non-stellar activity is related to host galaxies and the broader environment, and is specialized in the use of Integral Field Units for spectroscopic mapping of AGN and their hosts.

Sohan Jheeta, Founder of NoRCEL, joins our Astrobiology/SETI Board.
 
NoRCEL aims to kick-start a debate among practitioners who are directly involved in the theoretical aspects and experimental studies pertaining to the origin of life and those scientists who traditionally work in other fields (e.g., medical virology, phylogenetics, cancer research).

March 1st will be the 11th anniversary of World Futures Day: a 24-hour open conversation around the world about the future sponsored by The Millennium Project in cooperation with Lifeboat Foundation and others.
 
Already, our Shermon Cruz, Mara Di Berardo, Nadezhda Gaponenko, Jerome Glenn, Syamsuriatina Ishak, Chris Smedley, and Rohit Talwar are speaking/participating in this event.
 
World Futures Day begins at 12 noon in New Zealand and moves each hour around the planet for 24 hours. If you would like to be a Facilitator at 12 noon in your time zone or in others, learn more!
 
This is a Zoom-based event. See you on March 1!

Read The Professions of the Future by our Henrique Jorge.

Leslie Tennen joins our Space Settlement Board. He is a member of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) Board of Trustees for 2023–2025.

Nova Spivack joins our blog team with the post Inside secret Bond-style Alpine vault ‘backing up Earth’ in case of WW3.

Perig Pitrou joins our Sustainability Board. Perig is PSL lead on the Off Earth Atlas Project funded by the IAS, UCL’s Cities Partnerships Programme, and Université PSL (Paris Sciences et Lettres).

David Whitehouse, author of Apollo 11: The Inside Story, joins our Space Settlement Board.

Olli-Pekka Vainio, author of Cosmology in Theological Perspective Understanding Our Place in the Universe, joins our Astrobiology/SETI Board.

The Startup Societies & Crypto Cities Summit will be held February 2–3 in Pristine Bay, Honduras.
 
Our Joseph McKinney is cohost of this event and our Vitalik Buterin and Robin Hanson will be speaking.

NoRCEL’s next BLUE EARTH PROJECT EVENT: BEP2024 will be held January 27th for free at Leeds City College, UK and in cyberspace. This panel discussion and forum questions the wisdom of Homo sapiens given the state of our planet today.
 
Our Robert Zubrin will be speaking.

Read issue #258 of Lifeboat News!

Andjelka B. Kovačević, President of the National Committee for Astronomy in Serbia, joins our Space Settlement Board.
 
Andjelka’s primary research interest is currently in the Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Program, particularly in active galactic nuclei or AGNs and in the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) and the use of Deep Learning and Machine Learning approaches for AGN selection and characterization in large surveys like LSST.

Stephen Webb, author of If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens … WHERE IS EVERYBODY?: Seventy-Five Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life, joins our Astrobiology/SETI Board.

George Profitiliotis, Research Scientist at the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, joins our Space Settlement Board.

The Kavli-IAU Symposium 2024 “(Toward) Discovery of Life Beyond Earth and its Impact” will be held April 15–19, 2024 in Durham, UK and in Cyberspace.
 
Our Kathryn Denning, Daniela de Paulis, John Elliott, Jacob Haqq-Misra, and Dirk Schulze-Makuch will be speaking.

Satellite 2024 Conference & Exhibition will be held March 18–21, 2024 in Washington, DC.
 
Our Christina Korp, Charles Miller, Peter Platzer, and Alvaro Alonso Ruiz will be speaking.

The INCOSE International Workshop 2024 will be held January 27–30 in Torrance, California and in Cyberspace. The purpose of this conference is to demonstrate the progress and potential of systems engineering in the solution of global societal problems.
 
Our David Schrunk will be speaking!

Our Tina Ishak has launched a Call for Papers for an academic conference and journal publication on “Narratives, Frontier Technologies, and the Law” which has an element of futures and scenario planning. Learn more!

Read Artificial Slaves in the Renaissance and the Dangers of Independent Innovation, authored by our Kevin LaGrandeur.

Read Factuality Challenges in the Era of Large Language Models, coauthored by our Alon Halevy and Fil Menczer.

Read Learning Optimal Advantage from Preferences and Mistaking it for Reward, coauthored by our W. Bradley Knox and Peter Stone.

Read AI-pocalypse Now by our Matt Barrie.

Read Artificial Intelligence as an Aid to Thinking Otherwise — but to what End? by our Anthony Judge.

Marco Dotto, Cofounder of Personal Genomics, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.

Arian Mirzarafie Ahi, Founder of the The A Level Biologist, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.

Myriam Grunewald joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
 
Myriam is the Head of the Hadassah Medical Organization’s newly established Organoid Center within Hadassah’s Wohl Institute for Translational Medicine. Watch Honey, I Shrunk the Organs. Read Organoid Tech Brings Hadassah Medicine to a New Level.

Tina Ishak joins our Futurists Board.
 
Tina is the founder of the Malaysian Writers Society, which is dedicated to the professional development of writers hailing from Malaysia (citizens, PRs, and expats), spanning across genres, languages, mediums, functions, and experience levels, and seeks to foster and raise critical interest in creative writing by Malaysian writers.

Chris Smedley joins our blog team with the post Unlock Adult Learning Potential: Neuroscientist Reveals Best Methods.

Michael LaTorra joins our blog team with the post What space does to the body.

Haim Cohen joins our Life Extension Board.
 
Haim heads the Israeli-German Minerva Center for Biological Mechanisms of Healthy Aging and the Sami and Tova Sagol Center for Human Healthy Longevity Signature (HEALS), both hosted at his lab.

Chris Mcaulay joins our blog team with the post WATCH XPRIZE Launch Its Biggest Prize Ever, A Game-changer For Human Aging.

Lydia Garrido Luzardo joins our Futurists Board. She is the Chair of Sociocultural Anticipation and Resilience at UNESCO and Chair of the Uruguay Node of the Millennium Project.

Watch the TEDx Talk How to Make Common Sense Common Knowledge by our Corrinne Graham.

Nicole Anne K. Parreno, Secretary to the Chair and Board Liaison at the Association of Professional Futurists, joins our Futurists Board.

Dalton Daniel joins our blog team with the post GPT-4 falls short of Turing threshold.

Transvision Utrecht 2024 will be held January 20–21, 2024 in Utrecht, The Netherlands.
 
Our Didier Coeurnelle, José Cordeiro, Randal Koene, David Pearce, Brenda Ramokopelwa, Anders Sandberg, and Natasha Vita-More will be speaking.

Brent Ellman, Secretary for The U.S. Transhumanist Party, joins our Futurists Board.

Albert Higgins-Chen joins our Life Extension Board.
 
The Higgins-Chen lab develops and applies novel aging biomarkers to test the modifiability of aging to prevent or delay diseases such as Alzheimer’s, cardiovascular disease, and cancer.

Read issue #257 of Lifeboat News!

Frontier, Patsnap’s Annual Innovation Conference will be held on the 16th of November for free in cyberspace.
 
Our Marvin Cheung is delivering the keynote “Conducting Impactful Research for the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals”.

Tahir Dawood joins our blog team with the post How precious metals were brought to Earth and preserved in a magma ocean.

Initiative for Interstellar Studies joins our blog team with the post What They didn’t know when they created this. Watch til the end.

Cecile G. Tamura joins our blog team with the post NOIR: Neural Signal Operated Intelligent Robots for Everyday Activities.

Stan Daymond joins our blog team with the post Ilya: the AI scientist shaping the world.

Natalie Chan joins our blog team with the post Researchers solve protein mystery.

Laurence Tognetti joins our blog team with the post Seven Sweltering Exoplanets Found in Kepler Data.

Zola Balazs Bekasi joins our blog team with the post Researchers Create Chicken Embryos With Dinosaur-Like Faces.

Mara Di Berardo, Communication Director at The Millenium Project, joins our Futurists Board.

Daniel Belsky joins our Life Extension Board.
 
Dan originated the Pace of Aging method to quantify the aging process from a longitudinal analysis of human physiology and recently translated this method into a DNA-methylation blood test that can be implemented from a single time point blood test in collaboration with the Moffitt-Caspi Lab at Duke University.

Vittorio Sebastiano, coauthor of Rejuvenation on the Road to Pluripotency, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
 
Vittorio is the Director of the Transgenic Knockout and Tumor Model Service (TKTC) at Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford School of Medicine.

Alexander “Zan” Fleming, CEO of Kinexium, joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Zan is a well-recognized authority in the metabolic and endocrine fields with extensive U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) experience.

The World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF) XXV World Conference is being held October 25–27 in Paris, France and in cyberspace.
 
This conference is being organized by our Rosa Alegria, Alethia Baena, and Dana Klisanin.
 
Our Rosa Alegria, José Cordeiro, Christopher H. Cordey, Shermon Cruz, Seren Dalkiran, Tracey Follows, Fabienne Goux-Baudiment, Linda Groff, Andy Hines, Dana Klisanin, and Thomas Lombardo will be speaking.

Read Seren Dalkiran in the October Issue of Compass magazine for professional futurists worldwide. Read the latest issue of Compass, the global voice of professional futurists now!

Christopher B. Jones, author of Fire and Ice, joins our Astrobiology/SETI board.

Our David Evans won the 2022 Sir Arthur Clarke Award for Education and Outreach Individual.

The CDO/CDAO Summit will be held December 12–14 in Boston, Massachusetts.
 
Topics covered include digital transformation, data and analytics, and artificial intelligence.
 
Our David Mathison will be speaking.

Read Cosmic Garage by our James Churchill.
 
When Ellie and Zac come to stay with their grandfather at his run-down 1950’s gas station in the middle of the Nevada Desert they soon discover there’s more than just spare parts in the garage. A group of wayward space travellers have built themselves a new home, where they plan to broadcast their TV variety show to the Universe. Read the reviews!

Read Colony High by our David Brin.
 
In this captivating YA science fiction novel, the skeptical high school junior, Mark Bamford, finds himself caught up in a web of mystery and extraterrestrial intrigue. Living in the seemingly ordinary town of Twenty-Nine Palms, California, Mark dismisses the absurd rumor circulating among his classmates — an alien stranded in their midst. Such a clichéd movie rip-off, right? Can’t the math geeks come up with a more convincing hoax?

Read The Breakthrough Effect by our Douglas E. Richards whose books have sold over three million copies.
 
Oliver Scott is the reclusive genius behind countless world-changing breakthroughs. But how does he innovate at such a furious pace? And while most hail him as a savior, what if he’s actually the most dangerous tyrant humanity has ever seen? A man who will stop at nothing to gain absolute power.
 
Liam Dunne is an elite American operative enhanced with next-level technology, including a prototype supercomputer implanted in his brain. When an encrypted data file is transmitted into this implant, Liam is thrust into a battle for the very soul of humanity. Because the file holds the key to unlocking the mystery of Oliver Scott — and stopping a nightmarish future.
 
As Liam and the woman he loves race to unravel the truth, they become the targets of a lethal manhunt initiated by the ruthless genius. If they can survive long enough to access the enigmatic file, they can lift humanity to unimaginable heights.

Read The Death of Death: The Scientific Possibility of Physical Immortality and its Moral Defense, coauthored by our José Cordeiro.

LongevityFest 2023 will be held December 14–16 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
 
Our Hans Keirstead, Dobri Kiprov, and Joe Purita will be speaking.

The Chief AI Officer Summit will be held December 14 in Boston, Massachusetts.
 
Our David Mathison will be speaking.

Robert Bosnjak joins our blog team with the post A NY startup aims to build hundreds of chip factories with prefab parts and AI.

The Longevity Summit 2023 will be held December 5–6 in Novato, California.
 
Our Omri Amirav-Drory, Peter Fedichev, Kristen Fortney, Steve Horvath, Daniel Ives, and Robin Mansukhani will be speaking.

The 2023 Biomarkers of Aging Symposium will be held in Novato, California on December 4.
 
Our Nir Barzilai, Allison Duettmann, Peter Fedichev, Kristen Fortney, Vadim Gladyshev, Vera Gorbunova, Steve Horvath, Jamie Justice, Andrea Maier, and Alex Zhavoronkov will be speaking/participating.

Ana Jerković, with the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs in Croatia, joins our Policy Board.

Autism Tree Global Neurodiversity Conference 2023 will be held November 3rd in La Jolla, California and in Cyberspace.
 
This FREE event is chaired by our Alysson Muotri.

Read issue #256 of Lifeboat News!

Scot Bryson, CEO of Orbital Farm, joins our Space Settlement Board.

Susan Murabana, CEO of The Travelling Telescope Africa, joins our Cosmology Board.

The 2023 Space Settlement Summit will be held October 27–28 in Phoenix, Arizona.
 
Our Pete Garretson and James Hanusa will be speaking.

Joseph John joins our blog team with the post Quantum repeaters use defects in diamond to interconnect quantum systems.

Cosmic Brains will be held November 21–25 in Madrid, Spain.
 
This conference brings cutting edge minds working in scifi, philosophy, AI, neuroscience, the arts, and design together in a sustained interdisciplinary conversation.
 
Our Ed Keller and Peter Watts will be speaking.

DSC Europe 23 is being held November 20–24 in Sava Centar, Belgrade, Serbia. This is the biggest AI event worldwide.
 
Our Kevin LaGrandeur will be speaking.

New Worlds 2023 will be held November 17–18 in Austin, Texas.
 
Our Barbara Belvisi, Michelle Hanlon, Aaron Hermes, Sagi Kfir, Philip Metzger, Inara Tabir, Rick Tumlinson, Frank White, and Bart Womack will be speaking/performing.

The Inaugural Annual Symposium of The Sol Foundation will be held November 17–18 at Stanford University in California.
 
Our Eric Davis will be speaking.

DeSci & Longevity Biotech 2023 will be held November 17–19 in Prospera, Roatan, Honduras.
 
Our Alexander Bard, Sebastian A. Brunemeier, Aubrey de Grey, Liz Parrish, and Ian Robertson will be speaking.

Symposium on Electronic Crime Research 2023 will be held November 15–17 in Barcelona, Spain.
 
Our Peter Cassidy and Stephen Cobb are speaking/participating.
 
The discount code for Lifeboat members is: friend-2023.

Elias Arjan, CEO of Healthspan Productions, joins our Life Extension Board.

Healthy Masters will be held November 11–12 in Braga, Portugal and in Cyberspace.
 
Our Maria Entraigues Abramson, Bill Andrews, Ben Best, Evelyne Yehudit Bischof, David Brin, Nichola Conlon, José Luis Cordeiro, Aubrey de Grey, Brian Delaney, Valerio Di Nicola, Paul Epping, Collin Ewald, Gregory Fahy, William Faloon, Robin Farmanfarmaian, Peter Fedichev, Steven Garan, Giorgio Gaviraghi, Anastasiya Giarletta, Vera Gorbunova, Brigitte Hanly, Rudi Hoffman, Naveen Jain, Maxim Kholin, Gordan Lauc, Dan Levitt, Andrea Maier, Jeffery Martin, Nuno Martins, Stuart Maudsley, Josh Mitteldorf, Ines O’Donovan, Miguel Pais-Vieira, Liz Parrish, Alexander Paziotopoulos, Steve Perry, Denisa Rensen, Paul Spiegel, Ilia Stambler, Rohit Talwar, Natasha Vita-More, Sabinije von Gaffke, Chip Walter, Pete Worden, and Alex Zhavoronkov will be speaking.

The Future of Global Governance Series: Sustainable Development, Risk, and Strategic Foresight in a Transdisciplinary Systemic World will be held November 11 in cyberspace and in a hybrid venue.
 
Our Marvin Cheung is co-organizer of this conference.

The 10th International Energy and Sustainability Conference (IESC) will be held in Kingston, Jamaica on November 9–10.
 
Our Corrinne Graham will be speaking.

20Books Vegas 2023 will be held November 6–10 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
 
This is the biggest show in the world focused on self-publishing. There is something for every author, traditional or indie.
 
Our Kevin J. Anderson will be speaking.

KMWorld 2023: The Knowledge Management & Enterprise Solutions Conference will be held November 6–9 in Washington, DC.
 
Our John Lewis will be delivering a keynote speech.

Future in Review (FiRe) Conference 2023 will be held November 6–9 in Palos Verdes, California. The Economist calls it the “the best tech-futures conference in the world”.
 
Our David Brin, Dennis Bushnell, Brenda Cooper, David Ewing Duncan, Andra Keay, John Mattison, and Jody Westby will be speaking.

Autism Tree Global Neurodiversity Conference 2023 will be held November 3rd in La Jolla, California and in Cyberspace.
 
This event is chaired by our Alysson Muotri.

Salah Mahmoudi, Cofounder of NoraChem, joins our Chemistry Board.

The Nostr Asia Freedom Conference will be held November 1–3 in Tokyo, Hong Kong, and in Cyberspace.
 
Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award winner Edward Snowden will be speaking. Registration is free!

The Nordic Conference on Law and Information Technology 2023 will be held October 30–November 1 in Rovaniemi, Finland and in cyberspace.
 
This conference aims to engage in critical discussions on legal and ethical considerations concerning the role of sensitive human-related technologies, including but not limited to AI and biotech applications, in promoting a transition towards a sustainable, resilient and inclusive society.
 
Our Rob van den Hoven van Genderen will be speaking.

Ron Gowans-Savage joins our blog team with the post Scientists Unveil Unprecedented “Live” View Into the Brain’s Complexity.

The Neuro-Network joins our blog team with the post Alzheimer’s research breakthrough.

The 74th International Astronautical Congress will be held October 2–6 in Baku, Azerbaijan.
 
Our Ayşe Ören and Dylan Taylor are speaking.

Since 2012, September has been celebrated as World Alzheimer’s Month. Back then, only eleven years ago, an average of 2 out of 3 people had little understanding of Alzheimer’s disease and associated dementias.
 
Originally conceived as an international campaign with two main goals: to raise awareness about Alzheimer’s disease and challenge the stigma often associated with it. This month-long series of events is designed to shed light on and inform more people about the disease and its profound impact on patients and their families. The campaign culminates on September 21st, designated as World Alzheimer’s Day.
 
Read more!

Longevity Investors Conference 2023 will be held September 27–29 in Gstaad, Switzerland.
 
Our Nir Barzilai, Alexandra Sharon Bause, Evelyne Yehudit Bischof, José Luis Cordeiro, Stephanie Dainow, Aubrey de Grey, Collin Ewald, Lisa Fabiny-Kiser, Michael Greve, Dmitry Kaminskiy, Emil Kendziorra, Brian Kennedy, Phil Newman, Elizabeth Parrish, Elisabeth Roider, Evan Snyder, Sabinije von Gaffke, and Alexander Zhavoronkov will be speaking.

Alexander Paziotopoulos, CEO at The Pazio Institute, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.

Read issue #255 of Lifeboat News!

Our Corrinne Graham is speaking at TEDxDeerPark in Brentwood, New York on October 28.
 
Her talk is “Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability: A Solution to the Problem of Misinformation and Disinformation in Our Society”.

The 25th World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF) World Conference is being held October 25–27 in Paris, France and in cyberspace.
 
This conference is being organized by our Rosa Alegria, Alethia Baena, and Dana Klisanin.
 
Our Rosa Alegria, José Luis Cordeiro, and Seren Dalkiran will be speaking.

Russ Glenn joins our Space Settlement Board. He is NASA’s Solar System Exploration Ambassador.

The 11th Annual Thought Leaders Consortium: Next Generation Clinical Management of Chronic Neuroimmune Disorders will be held October 20–21 in Seattle, Washington.

Biocene 2023 “Biomimicry: Transforming Materials” will be held October 18–20 in Cleveland, Ohio and in cyberspace.
 
Our Ali Dhinojwala will be speaking.

Liberty in Our Lifetime will be held October 14–15 in Prague, Czech Republic and in cyberspace.
 
Our Sebastian Brunemeier, José Luis Cordeiro, and Mark Edge will be speaking.

The 20th Reinventing Space Conference 2023 will be held October 11–13 in Liverpool, United Kingdom.
 
Our Stuart Eves and David S. Germroth will be speaking.

The 2023 Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will be held October 9–15 in Marrakech, Morocco.

The International 2023 Mars Society Convention is being held on October 5–8 in Tempe, Arizona.
 
Our Rick Tumlinson, Sara Walker, and Robert Zubrin will be speaking.

The 20th Anniversary AREDAY Summit: Climate, Democracy, and Human Security is being held on October 6–9 in Boulder, Colorado.
 
Our Sylvia Earle and Varushka Franceschi will be speaking.

The Department of History at Berhampur University has organized an International Conference on History on October 3–4 in Odisha, India.
 
Our Rekha Pande is giving the keynote address.

Ebénézer Njoh-Mouellé joins our Policy Board.
 
Ebénézer is a philosopher, a politician, a member of the Executive Council of UNESCO, a Former Deputy, and a Former Minister. He is known for his work on the development of Africa, and for his advocacy for a more just and equitable world.

The Water Environment Federation (WEF) 96th Annual Conference will be held September 30–October 4 in Chicago, Illinois.

Disasters Expo USA: Prepare | Respond | Recover will be held September 27–28 in Anaheim, California.

Advances in DNA Methylation Analysis: The New Frontier for Clinical Diagnostics will be held for free on September 26 in cyberspace.

The 12th Constructal Law Conference: Freedom, Design, and Evolution will be held September 21–22 in Torino, Italy.
 
The Constructal Law governs all phenomena of design evolution in Nature, bio and non-bio, human made and not human made.
 
Our Adrian Bejan will be speaking.

Ben Smith, Founder of Lunar Homestead, joins our Space Settlement Board.

The workshop Education for Spaceship Earth is being held September 21–23 in Brussels and in cyberspace.
 
The workshop’s context centers around one notion: the noosphere! This term was first introduced in 1923 in Paris. The term is derived from the Greek word νοῦς (nous), meaning ‘mind’. It points to a sphere — a dimension, phase, or dynamic attractor — where our collective consciousness is coalesced.
 
Our Marta Lenartowicz will be speaking.

The Ending Aging Forum 2023 will be held for free September 21–22 in cyberspace.
 
Our Jean M. Hébert and Evan Snyder will be speaking.

The Future Black America Conference will be held September 18–20 in cyberspace. Our Reynaldo Anderson, Yul Anderson, and Jerome C. Glenn will be speaking.

Climate Week NYC 2023 will be held September 17–24 in New York City. This event brings together sustainability leaders from government, busines, academia, and civil society from around the world.

Rozalyn Anderson, Director of the Metabolism of Aging Program at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, joins our Life Extension Board.

Anton Kulaga, Cofounder and Researcher at CellFabrik, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.

John Oseni, Cofounder and CTO of Gofree, joins our New Money Systems Board.
 
John was recognized as one of the top 100 child prodigies in the world by the Dubai government and was presented the Global Child Prodigy Award in Dubai following his accomplishments under the technology category.

The Science Summit at UNGA78 will be held September 12–29 in New York City and in cyberspace.
 
Our Joe Pelton and Michael Potter will be speaking about Cosmic Hazards and New Approaches to Planetary Defense from 1 pm to 3 pm on September 21.
 
Our Joe Pelton will be speaking about Space and Sustainability: Space Compacts to Achieve the UN 2030 Space Agenda from 9 am to 11 am on September 21.
 
Our Scott Madry and Joe Pelton will be speaking about Space Systems, Artificial Intelligence, and Quantum Computing: Achieving the SDGs from 9 am to 12 pm on September 25.
 
These are all online sessions and are free.

Watch the TED Talk Machines That Think: The Future of AI by our James Canton.

Watch the live stream of The Space 18th SDG at United Nations General Assembly 78 2023 on September 15th starting at 9:15 AM EDT.
 
Sign their petition. Learn more!

Read Sustainability through Global Patterns of 60-fold Organization: Psycho-social implications of fullerenes for coherence, integrity and identity of a higher order by our Anthony Judge.

Read Artificial intelligence is ineffective and potentially harmful for fact checking coauthored by our Fil Menczer.

Rekha Pande, Director of the Society for Empowerment through Environment Development (SEED), joins our Sustainability Board.

Zann Gill, Cofounder of the Generative AI Lab & Library (GAIL), joins our Robotics/AI Board.

Read Why We Don’t Have AGI Yet coauthored by our Peter Voss.

Read issue #254 of Lifeboat News!

Marta Lenartowicz, coeditor of The Practice of Thinking: Cultivating the Extraordinary, joins our Complex Systems Board.

The Noosphere at 100: The Future of Human Collective Consciousness will be held November 17–19 in Berkeley, California.
 
Our Terrence Deacon, Ilia Delio, Ben Goertzel, Francis Heylighen, and Gregory Stock will be speaking.

Ojochogwu Saba Abdul, Founder of Transhumanist Africa, joins our Futurists Board.

William CS Cho, Editor of MicroRNAs in Cancer Translational Research, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.

Aftab Ahmad Chattha, President of the National Academy of Young Scientists (NAYS), joins our Education Board.

Read Addressing the harms of AI-generated inauthentic content, coauthored by our Fil Menczer.

Read How safe is our reliance on AI, and should we regulate it?, authored by our Kevin LaGrandeur.

Read Generalizing the Isothermal Efficiency by Using Gaussian Distributions authored by our Thomas D. Schneider.

Read The Third Wave of AI authored by our Peter Voss.

Read Near-zero cohesion and loose packing of Bennu’s near subsurface revealed by spacecraft contact coauthored by our Dante S. Lauretta.

Read issue #253 of Lifeboat News!

Read Why Trust in AI = Improving Trust in Societies Simultaneously by our David A. Bray.

The 4th International Conference on Aging and Disease (2023 ICAD) of the International Society on Aging and Disease (ISOAD) will be held at Zhangjiang Science Hall, Shanghai, China, from October 27 to 30, 2023.
 
Our Evelyne Yehudit Bischof, Holly M. Brown-Borg, Patrizia Anna d’Alessio, Brian Kennedy, Marios Kyriazis, Andrea B. Maier, Kyung-Jin Min, Alexey Moskalev, Björn Schumacher, Ilia Stambler, and Alex Zhavoronkov will be speaking.

Read Are We Ready for Direct Brain Links to Machines and Each Other? (PDF), authored by our Kevin LaGrandeur.

Read Anatomy of an AI-powered malicious social botnet (PDF), coauthored by our Fil Menczer.

Watch On Information Technology in Ukraine & Emerging Tech in Agriculture with our David A. Bray.

Tim Peterson, CEO of Healthspan Technologies, joins our Life Extension Board.

Nicholas Play joins our blog team with the post How China Is Using Artificial Intelligence in Classrooms.

Sajad Zalzala, Medical Director of AgelessRx, joins our Life Extension Board.

Elisabeth Roider, Chief Medical Officer at Maximon, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.

Joe Purita, Chief Medical Officer at PUR-FORM, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
 
Joe is a pioneer in using Regenerative Stem Cell and Platelet Rich Plasma therapy for orthopedic conditions. He has treated some of the most prominent professional athletes from all major sports in both the U.S. and abroad.

Kennedy (Matsagas) Schaal, CEO of Rejuve Biotech, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.

RAADfest will be held September 7–10 in Anaheim, California. This is the world’s largest event focused on anti-aging and age reversal science for a general audience.
 
Our Maria Entraigues Abramson, José Cordeiro, Aubrey de Grey, William Faloon, Liz Parrish, Stephen Sideroff, James Strole, and Jason R. Williams will be speaking.
 
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Roman Kam joins our blog team with the post The Seven Evolving Phases of Artificial Intelligence.

Matthew Harris joins our blog team with the post An AI robot gave a side-eye and dodged the question when asked whether it would rebel against its human creator.

Alessandro Carvalho joins our blog team with the post Study combines quantum computing and generative AI for drug discovery.

Danila Medvedev, Cofounder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the cryonics company KrioRus, joins our Life Extension Board.

Benjamin Anderson, Managing Partner and Business Development Advisor at Articulate Ventures, joins our Business Board.

Read Supraconscious: The Genius within You by our Maria Olon Tsaroucha.

Read issue #252 of Lifeboat News!

Omar ElNaggar, CEO at Weavechain, joins our Information Sciences Board.
 
Weavechain believes that the path to the future involves Weaving existing technology into the patterns that are commonly known as Web3.

Read The Curious Case of Skynet 1A — and Why It Matters by our Stuart Eves.

Read Proof-of-Reputation: An Alternative Consensus Mechanism for Blockchain Systems (PDF) coauthored by our Anton Kolonin.

Read The Rise of Artificial Intelligence — from Ancient Imagination to an Interconnected Future by our Henrique Jorge.

Michael A. Osborne joins our Robotics/AI Board. He is Professor of Machine Learning at the University of Oxford and Cofounder of the Mind Foundry.

Read Can you stop feeling pain? Probably yes! by our Guido Putignano.

Ending Age-Related Diseases 2023 will be held August 10–11 in New York City and in cyberspace.
 
Our Ryan Bethencourt, Judith Campisi, Keith Comito, Stephanie Dainow, Aubrey de Grey, Yuri Deigin, Brian M. Delaney, Peter Fedichev, Steven A. Garan, Michael Geer, Vadim Gladyshev, Vera Gorbunova, Steve Hill, Steve Horvath, Matt Kaeberlein, Hans Keirstead, Brian Kennedy, Michael Kope, Dylan Livingston, Tim Maupin, Michael Rose, Morten Scheibye-Knudsen, Robert Shmookler Reis, Paul Spiegel, and Natasha Vita-More will be speaking/participating.

The Lifeboat Foundation is sponsoring the Space Renaissance USA Networking Mixer in Brooklyn, New York on July 27th. This event is being organized by our Dr. Corrinne Graham.
 
Learn more!

Keith Wiley joins our blog team with the post How uploading our minds to a computer might become possible.

Slava G. Turyshev, Project Manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, joins our Space Settlement Board.
 
Read his From Quantum to Cosmos: Fundamental Physics Research in Space.

Kristi Morgansen, Director of the Washington NASA Space Grant Consortium, joins our Space Settlement Board.

AGI researcher Patrick Hammer joins our Robotics/AI Board. His main research interests include the Non-Axiomatic Reasoning System (NARS), specific implementation designs thereof, and improving its real-time reasoning & learning capabilities to enhance the autonomy of intelligent agents.

Laura M. Cox joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Laurie is Assistant Professor and Instructor of Neurology at the Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

Arthur Brown joins our blog team with the post A new tool to study complex genome interactions.

Zack Miles joins our blog team with the post Will Artificial Intelligence Help Us Talk to Animals?

Read Pharmacological and non-pharmacological countermeasures to Space Motion Sickness: a systematic review coauthored by our Barry L. Bentley along with researchers at NASA and ISRO.

Seren Dalkiran joins our Futurists Board and our Sustainability Board. She is Founder of the Millennial Leadership Lab and Cofounder of the Synergized Earth Network (SEN).

Anil Bajnath, author of The Longevity Equation: The Step-By-Step Blueprint to Hack Your Genes, Optimize Your Health, And Master the Art of Existence, joins our Life Extension Board.

Peter Isaev joins our Robotics/AI Board. Peter is part of the Temple AGI Team, which does research and experiments in the field of Artificial General Intelligence.

Robert Johansson joins our Robotics/AI Board. Robert is developing digital humans for psychotherapy training.

Read issue #251 of Lifeboat News!

The Moon Society’s Lunar Development Conference 2023 will be held July 15–16 in cyberspace.
 
Our Niklas Järvstråt and Madhu Thangavelu will be speaking.

Lifeboat Foundation supports the Space Renaissance International goal of having the UN add the Sustainable Development Goal for “Space for All, on Earth and Beyond”, to the UN’s 2030 Agenda.
 
We are joining other organizations including the National Space Society and The Mars Society in this effort.
 
Sign the petition today!

Jyothi Devakumar joins our Life Extension Board. Jyothi is Group Chief Science Officer and Partner at the Longevity Tech Fund and Chief Science Officer (CSO) at Healthy Longevity Clinic.

The Nucleate Italy Longevity Conference will be held May 24th in cyberspace and in Italy. Tickets are free!
 
Our Guido Putignano and Marco Quarta will be speaking.

Read Eponymous Plot Device: A Collection of Short Science Fiction Stories by our Jeremy Lichtman. The Kindle version will be free from May 21 to May 25!

Mitra Lavasani, Director of the Translational Cell Therapy Lab, joins our Life Extension Board.

Daniel Stickler joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
 
Daniel is the Cofounder and Chief Medical Officer of The Apeiron Center for Human Potential and the Chief Science Officer for Apeiron Academy. His work focuses on longevity, epigenetics, and lifestyle optimization.

Andrew Kuess, author of Space Age Arcology: The Cosmic City States Of Tomorrow, joins our Space Settlement Board.

Andrew Smith joins our blog team with the post The Idea Revolution: How AI and Large Language Models Are Transforming the Way We Think.

Roger Spitz joins our Futurists Board. Roger is an international bestselling author, President of Techistential (Climate & Foresight Strategy), and Chair of the Disruptive Futures Institute.

Read Brain Principles Programming (PDF) coauthored by our Anton Kolonin.

Read From Quantum Biology to Quantum Computing by our Guido Putignano.

Santo Fortunato joins our Complex Systems Board. At Indiana University Bloomington, Santo leads his CoNeX Lab at the Center For Complex Networks and Systems Research.

Marvin Cheung, Global Diplomacy Fellow at the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), joins our Diplomacy board.

Read Calamities causing loss of museum collections: a historical and global perspective on museum disasters by Michael J. Tyler, Dale Roberts, and our Lydia A. Fucsko.

Read the free paper You Have a Duty to Migrate Off-Planet… (From Blue Origin to Green Destiny: Gerard K. O'Neill and Planetary Crises) by our Charles Tandy.

Watch Mind-Blowing Facts About Our Reality [4K] | The Secrets of Quantum Physics | Spark by our Jim Al-Khalili.

Read issue #250 of Lifeboat News!

Read Intelligence Explosion – Part 1/3 by our Henrique Jorge.

Listen to the Everything Epigenetics podcast with our Hannah Went on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube. Connect with the show on Facebook and Instagram.

Nadine Hoosen, Chief Science Officer at TAFFD’s, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.

Nonthapat “Brave” Pulsiri joins our blog team with the post How can we make the space sector more sustainable?

Ray Nayler, author of The Mountain in the Sea, joins our Futurists Board.

The International Longevity Summit will be held August 23–24 in South Africa.
 
Our Maria Entraigues Abramson, Alexandra Bause, Evelyne Yehudit Bischof, José Luis Cordeiro, Stephanie Dainow, Goffredo Giordano, Aubrey de Grey, Ósìnàkáchì Ákùmà Kálù, Andrea B. Maier, Martin O’Dea, Elizabeth Parrish, Brenda Ramokopelwa, Paul Spiegel, and Natasha Vita-More will be speaking.

Peter A. Swan, President of the International Space Elevator Consortium, joins our Space Settlement Board.

The ISDC 2023 (International Space Development Conference) will be held May 25–28 in Dallas-Frisco, Texas.
 
Our Gary Barnhard, Sherry Bell, Michelle L.D. Hanlon, Janet Ivey, David Livingston, Holly Melear, Rod Pyle, Martine Rothblatt, and Dylan Taylor will be speaking/participating.

Seren Dalkiran joins our Futurists Board and our Sustainability Board. She is Founder of the Millennial Leadership Lab and Cofounder of the Synergized Earth Network.

Read Building Commercial Space Infrastructure (PDF) by our Alex Thatcher and Keith Taggart.

Read Shingles, Zostavax vaccination and risk of developing dementia: a nested case-control study — results from the UK Biobank cohort (PDF) coauthored by our Ruth Itzhaki.

Read Drug Screening Implicates Chondroitin Sulfate as a Potential Longevity Pill by our Collin Ewald.

Read Osteopontin: Building Skeletons in Aging’s Closet by our Clinton “Cosmo” Mielke.

Read The Ethics of Human Enhancement and Ferrando’s Philosophical Posthumanism by our Kevin LaGrandeur.

Joseph Takahashi joins our Neuroscience Board.
 
Joe holds the Loyd B. Sands Distinguished Chair in Neuroscience and is Professor and Chair of the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. He is also Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Read A First Course in Network Science, coauthored by our Filippo Menczer.
 
Networks are everywhere: networks of friends, transportation networks and the Web. Neurons in our brains and proteins within our bodies form networks that determine our intelligence and survival. This modern, accessible textbook introduces the basics of network science for a wide range of job sectors from management to marketing, from biology to engineering, and from neuroscience to the social sciences.

Watch Using Data Science for Crisis Management and Response with our David A. Bray.

Robin Mansukhani, CEO of Deciduous Therapeutics, a venture-backed startup developing novel immunotherapies to treat age-related diseases, joins our Life Extension Board.

Read On the Controllability of Artificial Intelligence: An Analysis of Limitations by our Roman V. Yampolskiy.

Read A Reputation System for Artificial Societies (PDF) coauthored by our Ben Goertzel, Matt Iklé, and Anton Kolonin.

Watch Brain, Meet Computer by our Nuno Martins.

Read What is Grover’s Search Algorithm and why will you use it? by our Guido Putignano.

Shermon Cruz, Executive Director of the Center for Engaged Foresight, joins our Futurists Board.

Read the free QRI Guidebook to Super Happiness, coauthored by our Andrés Gómez Emilsson.

Read How does Quantum Teleportation work? by our Guido Putignano.

Sergio Ruiz, COO of Turn Biotechnologies, joins our Life Extension Board.

Read issue #249 of Lifeboat News!

Harish Srigiriraju joins our Robotics/AI Board. Watch Monitoring data, ML models, and performance.

Read Space Settlement: An Easier Way (PDF), coauthored by our Al Globus.

Read Protein Folding with Quantum Annealing for Drug Discovery by our Guido Putignano.

Read A celebrated AI has learned a new trick: How to do chemistry by our Marc Zimmer.

Read Restriction enzymes use a 24 dimensional coding space to recognize 6 base long DNA sequences coauthored by our Thomas D. Schneider.
 
It says “In other words, we believe that EcoRI probably uses a Leech lattice to find its binding sites precisely. This implies that we might be able to build the noise decoder in cellphones using a single molecule.”

Read Biomimicry for Aerospace: Technologies and Applications, Biomimicry for Materials, Design and Habitats: Innovations and Applications, and Nanomaterials via Single-Source Precursors: Synthesis, Processing and Applications, all coedited and coauthored by our Al Hepp.

Read EDNA - Enhanced DNA: Giving us full external control of our inner biology by our Ian D. Pearson and Tracey Follows.
 
An EDNA system would put advanced biotechnology and IT into every cell of our bodies and enable interfacing to almost every aspect of our current biology, and also provide a means to edit, replace, enhance, mediate and control almost every aspect of it.
 
Much of the EDNA System is feasible in the next few decades, but as well as enormous potential benefits, it would also bring enormous dangers. We explore both.

Tracey Follows, Founder of Futuremade, joins our Futurists Board.

Longevity Nation: Enhancing Research, Development, and Education for Healthy Longevity will be held for free March 26–27 at Bar Ilan University, Israel and in cyberspace.
 
Our Nir Barzilai, Yael Benvenisti, Evelyne Bischof, José Luis Cordeiro, Stephanie Dainow, Aubrey de Grey, Dmitry Kaminskiy, Marios Kyriazis, Alexey Moskalev, Björn Schumacher, and Ilia Stambler will be speaking.

Victoria Ustimenko-Laskina, CEO of Preto PR Service, joins our Futurists Board.

Will Fox joins our blog team with the post Breakthrough in recycling of wind turbine blades.

Marketing management professional and web developer Ryan Setliff joins our Media & Arts Board.

Daniel Sunday joins our blog team with the post World-first ‘super’ magnet sparks nuclear fusion breakthrough.

Petr Sramek, Managing Partner at the Longevity Tech Fund, joins our Life Extension Board.

Read issue #248 of Lifeboat News!

The World Futures Day by The Millennium Project, in cooperation with the Association of Professional Futurists (APF), Humanity+, Lifeboat Foundation, and the World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF), will take place on March 1st for the 10th year!
 
Our Yul Anderson, Adriano Autino, Marsia Bealby, Nadja Bester, José Cordeiro, Franco Cortese, Francesco Da Vinci, Daniela de Paulis, Tom Diffenbach, Martin Dudziak, Jerry Edling, Paul Epping, Giorgio Gaviraghi, Jerome Glenn, Al Globus, Trevor Haldenby, Robin Hanson, Rudi Hoffman, Maxim Kholin, Kevin LaGrandeur, Pavel Luksha, Andrea Maier, David Orban, Nonthapat “Brave” Pulsiri, Paul Saffo, Rohit Talwar, James Tankersley Jr., Jaba Tkemaladze, Hannah Went, and Bronwyn Williams will be speaking/participating.
 
You are invited to join the discussion on Zoom on March 1st, ideally at noon in your time zone. (You can pick a different time if noon doesn’t work for you.)
 
Learn more!

Read Silicon Anode Systems for Lithium-Ion Batteries and Lithium-Sulfur Batteries: Advances in High-Energy Density Batteries, both coedited and coauthored by our Al Hepp.

Frank Schueler, Managing Director of Kizoo Technology Capital, joins our Finance Board.

Vermont House of Representative Bobby Farlice-Rubio joins our Policy Board.

The World Futures Day by The Millennium Project, in cooperation with the Association of Professional Futurists (APF), Humanity+, Lifeboat Foundation, and the World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF), will take place on March 1st for the 10th year!
 
The call for facilitators is now open: support World Futures Day by picking a one hour time slot where you will help to facilitate the discussion — such as the slot at 12 noon in your local area. If you want to be part of the team, please use this form.
 
The format is always the same: a 24-hour around-the-world conversation using Zoom for futurists and the public to freely discuss challenges and opportunities for building a better future for all.
 
Learn more!

Read the open access paper Restriction enzymes use a 24 dimensional coding space to recognize 6 base long DNA sequences by our Thomas D. Schneider.

Read Photovoltaics for Space: Key Issues, Missions and Alternative Technologies, coedited and coauthored by our Al Hepp.

Read Eponymous Plot Device: A Collection of Short Science Fiction Stories by our Jeremy Lichtman.

Nikhil Jain, Principal Investigator at Syngene International, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.

Read The Future of Humanity: From Global Civilization to Great Civilization, Second Edition by our Zhouying Jin.

Read Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness: Third Edition by our Newton Lee.

Read Beyond Knowledge: How Technology Is Driving an Age of Consciousness by our William E. Halal.

Read issue #247 of Lifeboat News!

The 17th World Congress on Controversies in Neurology (CONy) will take place on March 23–25, 2023 in the beautiful city of Dubrovnik, Croatia.

Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference NSRC-2023, the premier conference for researchers and educators interested in commercial suborbital reusable vehicles, will be held February 27 to March 1 in Denver, Colorado USA.

Nexus Nairobi is a singularly powerful, immersive four-day gathering, taking place January 31 to February 4, 2023 in Kenya, presented by 100 Year Starship. Designed & hosted by Dr. Mae Jemison and the 100YSS team, Nexus Nairobi brings together a global community of doers, thinkers, advocates, leaders, organizers, dreamers — committed to advancing a beneficial future here on Earth and beyond to learn, contribute, and grow in an immersive, engaged experience. Nexus is a hybrid event — in-person (limited) and virtual (live-streamed with rewind).
 
Our Jason Batt, David Brin, Jaym Gates, David Orban, and Rhonda Stevenson will be speaking.
 
Enter the code LifeboatFoundation2023code at registration for a special offer for virtual participation. Limited to the first 30 registrants. Applies to standard and student registrations.

Björn Schumacher, Director of the Institute for Genome Stability in Aging and Disease, joins our Life Extension Board.

Daniela Bakula, Researcher at the Center for Healthy Aging, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of Copenhagen, joins our Life Extension Board.

Nino Marcantonio, Deputy Director of the Defense Technology Innovation Association (DTIA), joins our Counterterrorism Board.

International news organization Longevity joins our blog team with the post Micronutrient Supplementation to Reduce Cardiovascular Risk.

For the first time since 2006, we have two joint recipients of the Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award. This year’s recipients are Jerome C. Glenn and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who are defending against world existential risks and country existential risks, respectively.
 
Learn more!

Garri Zmudze joins our Life Extension board.
 
Garri is the founding partner of LongeVC, a venture capital company supporting early-stage biotech and longevity-focused founders. He is the Executive Coordinator at the Longevity Science Foundation and has been the Founder of Longenesis since 2017.

Read Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires by our Douglas Rushkoff.

Read Mobius: A Memoir by our Richard Thieme. This book is a stunning exploration of the impact of a life of deception and professional intelligence work which illuminates the world in which we all now live.

Read Technology vs. Humanity: The coming clash between man and machine by our Gerd Leonhard.

Read Days V, a collection of poems and Myriad Voices, a collection of short stories, by our Sarita Sharma.

Read Modified: Living as a Cyborg, coedited by Chris Hables Gray.
 
Building off the highly successful The Cyborg Handbook, this new collection of essays, interviews, and creative pieces brings together a set of compelling personal accounts about what it means to live as a cyborg in the twenty-first century.
 
Lifeboat members can use discount code FLR40, or if they want to review it or check it out to teach they can get it for free.

Spring Behrouz, CEO at Vincere Biosciences and CEO at NeuroInitiative, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.

Andy Lee, CFO at Vincere Biosciences and CFO at NeuroInitiative, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.

Read Journey to Everywhere by our Mike Kawitzky.
 
This gonzo auto-biography documents the evolution of cyber-consciousness via social networking from a uniquely South African viewpoint.

Nonthapat “Brave” Pulsiri, CEO of the Ava Health Group, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.

Read Our Fruiting Bodies by our Nisi Shawl.
 
This book collects stories of old growth and fresh decay, of stubborn rebirth, and the faint but nonimaginary paths connecting life and nonlife.

Read Ad Infinitum: The Continuing Adventures of the Infinity Club by our Alex Thatcher.

Read issue #246 of Lifeboat News!

Chuck Brooks joins our Cybercrime/Malcode Board. Chuck is a globally recognized thought leader and subject matter expert in cybersecurity and emerging technologies.

Our Greg Bear unfortunately passed away. Greg was previously President of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) and was husband of our Astrid Bear.
 
Greg was Consulting Judge for our Lifeboat to the Stars award and he contributed to Lifeboat Foundation’s Visions of the Future which reached #1 under “Hot New Releases in Science Fiction Anthologies” on Amazon. As an accomplished science fiction author of over 50 novels, Greg received five Nebula Awards and two Hugo Awards. He even helped the government prepare for attacks of the future, working with our Arlan Andrews and Jerry Pournelle.
 
Learn more!

Tovah Wolf, owner of TDWOLD Nutrition, joins our Life Extension Board.

Dylan V. Livingston, President of the Alliance for Longevity Initiatives, joins our Life Extension Board.

Jeff Kendall joins our blog team with the post Age of the Androids.

Al Karaki joins our blog team with the post NoWhere to EMIT, NoWhere to HIDE.

Frank Schueler joins our blog team with the post Mike Kope at Rejuvenation Startup Summit 2022.

Read ES 1 - Fall: EggShell by our Alex Thatcher.
 
Kamron Armour, an A.I. created from the mind graft of a human from the 21st century, is brought back online 50,000 years later by a human with no name except Man O’ War. This “Man O’ War” appears, impossibly, to be a friend from the 21st century, somehow, still alive.

Read Sovereign Mars: Transforming Our Values through Space Settlement by our Jacob Haqq-Misra.

Read Meat Market: 13th Anniversary Odd Edition by our Alex Thatcher.
 
In one generation, our society’s technology, morals, beliefs and fundamental place in the universe changed drastically. With lifespans becoming longer and technological gains coming quicker, terms and definitions being redefined weekly, if not daily, what might occur in the next generation?

Cities in Space® 2023 will be held March 24, 2023 at 9:00 AM to 5:30 PM CST in Austin, Texas.
 
Our Janet Ivey, Holly Melear, Haroon Oqab, Jeff Smith, and Rick Tumlinson will be speaking.

The Longevity Summit 2022 will be held December 6–7 in Novato, California.
 
Our Stephanie Dainow, Matt Kaeberlein, Morgan Levine, Matthew “Oki” O’Connor, and Marco Quarta will be speaking.

Read The Random and Fluctuating World: Celebrating Two Decades of Fluctuation and Noise Letters coedited by our Laszlo Kish.

Read Cryostasis Revival: The Recovery of Cryonics Patients through Nanomedicine by our Robert A. Freitas Jr.
 
You can also read this 700+ page book as a free PDF.

Read Becoming Off-Worldly: Learning from Astronauts to Prepare for Your Spaceflight Journey by our Laura Forczyk.
 
This book includes a forward by our Frank White.

Read Cryostasis Revival: The Recovery of Cryonics Patients through Nanomedicine by our Robert A. Freitas Jr.

Read the first contact science fiction book The Angrelline by our Pete Bonasso. This is a sequel to Portals.

Dudley Lamming joins our Life Extension Board.
 
Dudley is Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine’s Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.

Read the first contact science fiction book Portals by our Pete Bonasso.

Read Fender the Fall: A Sci-Fi Novella by our Roy Christopher.

Sara Negar joins our blog team with the post World’s first cloned arctic wolf is now 100 days old.

Jean-Marc Lemaitre, Deputy Research Director at the Institute of Regenerative Medicine and Biotherapy in Montpellier (IRMB), joins our Life Extension Board.

Read issue #245 of Lifeboat News!

Read Follow for Now, Volume 2: More Interviews with Friends and Heroes by our Roy Christopher.
 
Featuring conversations with thinkers like Carla Nappi, Rita Raley, Dominic Pettman, Ian Bogost, Mark Dery, Douglas Rushkoff, and Dave Allen, and musicians like Tyler, The Creator, Matthew Shipp, Sean Price, Rammellzee, and Sadat X, as well as writers like Ytasha L. Womack, Chris Kraus, Pat Cadigan, Bob Stephenson, Simon Critchley, Simon Reynolds, Malcolm Gladwell, and William Gibson, this book is another critical cross-section of the now.

Read The Jigsaw Assassin (Major Bhaajan series Book 4) by our Catherine Asaro.
 
Catherine plants herself firmly into that grand SF tradition of future history franchises favored by luminaries like Heinlein, Asimov, Herbert, Anderson, Dickson, Niven, Cherryh, and Baxter. She also contributed to our Visions of the Future.

The AGU (American Geophysical Union) Fall Meeting will be held December 12–16 in Chicago, Illinois and in cyberspace. This is the most influential event in the world dedicated to the advancement of Earth and space sciences.
 
Every year, the AGU Fall Meeting convenes over 25,000 attendees from 100+ countries to share research and network. Researchers, scientists, educators, students, policymakers, enthusiasts, journalists and communicators attend to better understand our planet and environment, and our role in preserving its future. It is a results-oriented gathering rooted in celebrating and advancing positive individual and collective outcomes.

Alan Carsey joins our blog team with the post New simulations show how supermassive black holes form.

Our Kattesh V. Katti has achieved a major milestone in sustainable green approaches in immunotherapeutic drug design and was awarded patent Mangiferin encapsulated gold nanoparticles, fabrication methods and cancer therapeutic methods.

Ayşe Ören, Founder of DesignArt, joins our Media & Arts Board.

Taya Maki, President of the Societe Cryonics de France, joins our Life Extension Board.

Our Dennis Chamberland has authored Departing Earth Forever: Book One — Warning and Promise: The Manual for Today’s Colonists Preparing to Launch to Mars and our Moon and Departing Earth Forever: Book Two — Alien Worlds: The Manual for Today’s Colonists Preparing to Launch to Mars and Our Moon.

Aaron Ray Hermes, founder of music collective and record label Audio Telepathy, joins our Media & Arts Board.

Sagi Kfir, Senior Managing Counsel at Blue Origin, joins our Space Settlement Board.

Our Guido Putignano was named the most influential person in Healthcare & Bio Sciences under 25 in Italy by Università Bocconi and Nova.

Irina Litchfield joins our New Money Systems Board. Irina is Founder and CEO of BlockchainCubed, CEO of Rizon Labs, and President of Lumeria.

The Covid-19 Pandemic: Understanding and Addressing the Challenges is a four-week online course developed and taught by our Paula D. Gordon, PhD.
 
It is offered by the Office of Professional and Continuing Education of Auburn University Outreach and is scheduled for October 10–November 6.
 
The registration fee is $400 (All materials for the course are digitally accessible for free.) Participants will be eligible for 3 CEU credits.
 
You can call (334) 844-5100 for further information.

Tim Chrisman, Executive Director of the Foundation For The Future, joins our Futurists Board.

New Worlds will be held October 28–29 in Austin, Texas. This is the best, most interesting, most informative, irreverent, challenging, inclusive, and unconventional space event on this world.
 
Our Pete Garretson, Michelle Hanlon, Holly Melear, Mike Mantzke, Phil Metzger, Inara Tabir, Rick Tumlinson, Bart Womack, and Robert Zubrin will be speaking.

Tzipi Strauss, Director of Neonatology at Sheba Hospital, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.

Read How AI Can Democratize Healthcare: The Rise in Digital Care by our Robin Farmanfarmaian and Michael Ferro.

Marco Demaria, President of the International Cell Senescence Association (ICSA), joins our Life Extension Board.

Read issue #244 of Lifeboat News!

Read Sky Dreams by our Tery Spataro.
 
Sky Dreams is a poem by Tery and combines a decade of her cloud photographs. The artwork is designed using Playform AI, with final digital flourishes created by Tery.

The GNOSIS (Global Network on Sustainability in Space) Annual Conference 2022 will be held November 30–December 1 at the Radcliff House, University of Warwick, United Kingdom and in cyberspace.
 
This conference offers opportunities for sharing knowledge, raising awareness and making new connections to encourage collaboration in tackling the challenges of space sustainability.
 
Our Stuart Eves will be participating.

The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Annual Convention will be held November 17–20 in Anaheim, California.
 
For more than 100 years, NCTE has worked with its members to offer journals, publications, and resources; to further the voice and expertise of educators as advocates for their students at the local and federal levels; and to share lesson ideas, research, and teaching strategies through its Annual Convention and other professional learning events.

TransVision 2022 will be held November 10–13 in Madrid, Spain. This summit will focus on biostasis and other future technologies. It will include the first Biostasis First Response (BFR) training provided in Spain.
 
Our Ben Best, José Cordeiro, Felipe Debasa, Aubrey de Grey, João Pedro de Magalhães, Ben Goertzel, Rodolfo Goya, Andrés Grases, Emil Kendziorra, Dany Kitishian, David Pearce, Ramón Risco, Carlos Rodríguez Sau, Anders Sandberg, Paul Spiegel, Sergio Tarrero, and Natasha Vita-More will be speaking/participating.

The American Anthropological Association (AAA) Annual Meeting will be held in Seattle this November 9–13.
 
The 2022 AAA Annual Meeting theme “Unsettling Landscapes” encourages anthropological discussion of past, present, and future unsettlings of the world — be it through environment, power, political economy or through the collective efforts of unsettling and disrupting oppressive structures while building worlds otherwise.
 
While our worlds are defined by nothing if not change, the current unsettling of landscapes brings with it an urgency that demands conversations which may elicit feelings of discomfort and disturbance, but may also stoke hope and determination.
 
This orientation towards unsettling pushes us beyond easy narratives and facile binaries into moments of transformation. In essence, this theme asks two questions: In what ways are we, and those we work with, unsettled? How are we also unsettling landscapes and to what end?

Emilio Hirsch, Founder of Kither Biotech, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.

Pekka Katajisto, Director of the MetaStem Centre of Excellence at the University of Helsinki, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.

Marco Quarta, CEO at Rubedo Life Sciences, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.

21st Century Tech Blog joins our blog team with the post The Search for Life Off Earth Points to Mars.

Felix Schlang joins our Space Settlement Board. Felix is the host of the YouTube channel What about it!? where he covers SpaceX, space, and technology.

Ben Best joins our Life Extension Board. Ben is the Director of Research Oversight at Life Extension Foundation and former President of the Cryonics Institute.

Eliana Sheriff, creator of Ellie in Space, joins our Space Settlement Board.

Robin Indeededo joins our blog team with the post China’s new “sky train” floats under an elevated track, using magnets and AI.

Healthy Masters will be held November 5–6 in Portugal and cyberspace.
 
Our Maria Entraigues Abramson, Bill Andrews, Evelyne Bischof, José Luis Cordeiro, Aubrey de Grey, Brian Delaney, Valerio Di Nicola, Collin Ewald, Gregory Fahy, William Faloon, Robin Farmanfarmaian, Peter Fedichev, Anastasiya Giarletta, Steven A. Garan, Giorgio Gaviraghi, Andrés Grases, Brigitte Hanly, Rudi Hoffman, Naveen Jain, Maxim Kholin, Gordan Lauc, Dan Levitt, Andrea B. Maier, Nuno Martins, Stuart Maudsley, Ines O’Donovan, Liz Parrish, Steve Perry, Denisa Rensen, Yael Sorek-Benvenisti, Paul A. Spiegel, Natasha Vita-More, Sabinije von Gaffke, Chip Walter, Pete Worden, and Alexander Zhavoronkov will be speaking.

Dobri Kiprov, Chief Medical Officer of Global Apheresis, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.

Olympian Stephen McCain joins our Life Extension Board.

RAADfest will be held October 6–9 in San Diego, California. This is the world’s largest event focused on anti-aging and age reversal science for a general audience.
 
Updated list! Our Bill Andrews, José Cordeiro, Greg Fahy, William Faloon, Ben Goertzel, Jean Hébert, Naveen Jain, Sandra Kaufmann, Robert Lufkin, Phil Newman, Liz Parrish, Steve Perry, Michael R. Rose, Stephen Sideroff, and James Strole will be speaking.
 
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Robert Lufkin, author of Lies I Taught in Medical School: And Truths That Can Save Your Life, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.

Read issue #243 of Lifeboat News!

Famous YouTube personality Scott Manley joins our Space Settlement Board. Scott makes videos discussing space-related topics and news, mainly concerning up-to-date rocket science developments. In recognition of his work as a popular science communicator, asteroid 33434 Scottmanley was named after him.
 
Author Anne McCaffrey consulted with Scott on the effects of asteroid impacts while writing The Skies of Pern, determining the orbit of the comet and providing advice on how the event should be portrayed.
 
Watch Scott’s YouTube channel!

RAADfest will be held October 6–9 in San Diego, California. This is the world’s largest event focused on anti-aging and age reversal science for a general audience.
 
Updated list! Our Bill Andrews, José Cordeiro, Greg Fahy, William Faloon, Ben Goertzel, Jean Hébert, Naveen Jain, Sandra Kaufmann, Phil Newman, Liz Parrish, Steve Perry, Michael R. Rose, Stephen Sideroff, and James Strole will be speaking.
 
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James Strole joins our Life Extension Board. Jim is Cofounder and Codirector of People Unlimited, and the Executive Director of the Coalition for Radical Life Extension, the producers of RAADfest.

AGI-22 will be held August 19–22 in Seattle, Washington, USA and online.
 
Updated list! Our Antonio Chella, Ben Goertzel, Marcus Hutter, Matthew Iklé, Anton Kolonin, Xiang Li, John Licato, Alexey Potapov, Chris Poulin, Rafal Rzepka, Ricardo Sanz, Bas Steunebrink, Linas Vepstas, Pei Wang, and Roman Yampolskiy will be speaking/participating.
 
The AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) conference series plays a significant role in the resurgence of research on artificial intelligence in the deeper, original sense of the term of “artificial intelligence”. The conference encourages interdisciplinary research based on different understandings of intelligence, and exploring different approaches. As the AI field becomes increasingly commercialized and well accepted, maintaining and emphasizing a coherent focus on the AGI goals at the heart of the field remains more critical than ever.

Stephen Sideroff, Director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Ethics, joins our Ethics Board.

Join the free WE Connect Mentor Session with Dr. Corrinne Graham on Perseverance on August 4th at 1:00 PM EDT. This is an online event.
 
In this expert-led group mentoring session series, you will have the chance to work in a facilitated setting with industry experts to understand the tools through which you can develop positioning, tech tools, marketing, and finance strategies.

Read Patent Depending: A Collection; 2nd edition and Patent Depending: Vehicles; 2nd Edition by our Steven M. Johnson.

Read What’s a Parent to Do?: How to Give Your Child the Best Education by our Lawrence Baines.

Michael Mantzke, CEO of Global Data Sciences, joins our Business Board.

Read Work/Technology 2050: Scenarios and Actions, coauthored by our Jerome C. Glenn.

Read State of the Future version 19.1, coauthored by our Jerome C. Glenn and Elizabeth Florescu.

Read Futurist Spaceflight Meditations and Tales of the Turing Church: Hacking religion, enlightening science, awakening technology, both by our Giulio Prisco.

The Cosmic Zoo: Complex Life on Many Worlds was coauthored by our Dirk Schulze-Makuch.
 
Are humans a galactic oddity, or will complex life with human abilities develop on planets with environments that remain habitable for long enough? In a clear, jargon-free style, two leading researchers in the burgeoning field of astrobiology critically examine the major evolutionary steps that led us from the distant origins of life to the technologically advanced species we are today.

The Dubai Future Forum will be held October 10–12 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
 
Our José Luis Cordeiro and Jerome Glenn will be speaking.

A4M’s Longevity Medicine and Bio-Hacking: Optimizing Lifespan will be held October 27–29 in Charleston, South Carolina.
 
Our Michael Lustgarten will be speaking.

Biostasis2022 will be held October 21–23 in Rafz, Switzerland. Biostasis2022 will include workshops, presentations from experts, and an open house of the new facility for Biostasis research and the long-term storage of patients.
 
Our Roman Bauer, Michael Benjamin, Emil Kendziorra, and Max Marty spoke at last year’s conference.

The 25th Annual International Mars Society Convention “Searching for Life with Heavy Lift” will be held October 20–23 in Tempe, Arizona.
 
Our Robert Zubrin will be speaking.

The Rejuvenation Startup Summit 2022 will be held October 14–15 in Berlin, Germany.
 
Our Alexandra Bause, Yuri Deigin, Peter Fedichev, Michael Greve, Brian Kennedy, Michael Kope, Phil Newman, and Matthew O’Connor will be speaking.

The Dubai Future Forum will be held October 10–12 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
 
Our José Luis Cordeiro will be speaking.

Reading Minds: Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks and the Reading Human will be held October 6–9 at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.
 
This is the 35th annual conference of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. Our Kevin LaGrandeur will be speaking.

Read issue #242 of Lifeboat News!

The Sustainable Built Environment D-A-CH Conference 2022 will be held September 20–23 in Berlin, Germany.
 
This conference will discuss resource management and material flows, climate neutral buildings, post-fossil infrastructures, critical digitalization, and socio-political frames for transitions.

The eCADDe Conference will be held in Ghent, Belgium on September 13–16.
 
The subject of this conference will be Co-creating the Future: Including in and through Design.

The Longevity Investors Conference will be held September 28–30 in Gstaad, Switzerland.
 
Our Nir Barzilai, Evelyne Yehudit Bischof, Stephanie Dainow, Michael Greve, Aubrey de Grey, Phil Newman, and Alex Zhavoronkov will be speaking.

Wise Technology joins our blog team with the post Possible step toward cheaper hydrogen-based energy: Predicting performance of catalysts in fuel cells.

Biofabrication 2022 will be held September 25–28 in Pistoia, Italy. This conference is focused on biofabrication for personalized and regenerative medicine.
 
Our Alvaro Mata will be speaking.

Longevity Summit Dublin 2022 will be held September 18–20 at The Mansion House, Dublin, Ireland.
 
Our Evelyne Yehudit Bischof, María A. Blasco, Didier Coeurnelle, Stephanie Dainow, Aubrey de Grey, Jim Mellon, Phil Newman, Matthew O’Connor, Martin O’Dea, and Hannah Went will be speaking.
 
Early bird tickets extended until July 31.

The 2022 Online News Association Conference will be held September 21–24 in Los Angeles, California.
 
As the premier gathering of highly engaged digital journalists who are shaping the future of media, ONA’s annual conference offers interactive panels, workshops, and networking events with some of the most innovative minds in digital news media.
 
Our Eric Mack will be speaking.

The 2022 NIAC Symposium will be held September 20–22 in Tucson, Arizona.
 
The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) seeks innovative, technically credible advanced concepts that could one day change the possible in aeronautics and space. This portfolio of NIAC studies addresses diverse research areas including: Revolutionary Exploration Systems, Novel Propulsion, Human Systems & Architectures for Extreme Environments, Sensors, and Imaging.
 
This year’s Symposium will feature exciting keynote addresses to inspire attendees. Past NIAC speakers have included visionary thinkers, distinguished scientists, senior government officials, authors, astronauts, and entrepreneurs.

Longevity Summit Dublin 2022 will be held September 18–20 at The Mansion House, Dublin, Ireland.
 
Our Evelyne Yehudit Bischof, María A. Blasco, Didier Coeurnelle, Stephanie Dainow, Aubrey de Grey, Jim Mellon, Matthew O’Connor, Martin O’Dea, and Hannah Went will be speaking.
 
Early bird tickets extended until July 31.

Learn about JournoDAO which is an incubator for projects that transform and rethink the journalism ecosystem using Web3 tools. This incubator was cofounded by our Eric Mack.

The Operational Research Society’s Annual Conference is being held September 13–15 at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom.
 
This conference attracts hundreds of operational research professionals, data scientists, professors, analysts, engineers, and academics from across the globe for three days of conferencing, networking, and knowledge transfer.

MetaWeek Dubai will be held September 11–14 at the Grand Hyatt Dubai.
 
Our Susan Oh will be speaking.

The 2022 Vitamin D Workshop will be held September 6–9 in Austin, Texas.
 
Our William B. Grant will be speaking.
 
The Vitamin D Workshop scientific conferences have been supported by an NIH R13 Conference Grant since 2014. All scientists, clinicians, nutritionists, and public health workers with an interest in vitamin D are welcome to participate.

The Longevity Science Singapore Conference will be held September 7, 2022 at the National University Hospital, Singapore.
 
Our Nir Barzilai, Evelyne Bischof, Matt Kaeberlein, Brian Kennedy, and Andrea Maier will be speaking/participating.

The 2022 Vitamin D Workshop will be held September 6–9 in Austin, Texas.
 
The Vitamin D Workshop scientific conferences have been supported by an NIH R13 Conference Grant since 2014. All scientists, clinicians, nutritionists, and public health workers with an interest in vitamin D are welcome to participate.

Read issue #241 of Lifeboat News!

Enter to win the Maximon Longevity Prize which is valued at over 50,000 US dollars. Judges include our Evelyne Yehudit Bischof, João Pedro de Magalhães, Collin Ewald, Brian Kennedy, and Ashish Rajput.
 
The Maximon Longevity Prize for Translational Research awards outstanding breakthrough research in the field of longevity that can be translated for clinical or non-clinical applications and has the potential to substantially increase healthspan or lifespan of humans.

Ashish Rajput joins our Life Extension Board.
 
Ashish is Chief Science Officer and Partner at Maximon, a longevity company in Switzerland where he empowers entrepreneurs to build science-based scalable companies providing healthy aging and rejuvenation solutions.

Tristan Hambling joins our blog team with the post The true size and power of James Webb Space Telescope’s new guide camera(FGS) deep field image. [8k].

NewSpace Conference 2022 will be held August 24–26 in Seattle, Washington.
 
Our Rick Tumlinson will be speaking.

Ending Age-Related Diseases 2022 will be held August 11–14 in cyberspace.
 
Our Sebastian A. Brunemeier, Keith Comito, Greg Fahy, Michael Geer, Vadim Gladyshev, Steve Hill, Steve Horvath, Brian Kennedy, Gordan Lauc, Michael Lustgarten, Tim Maupin, Matthew O’Connor, Kevin Perrott, Mike P. Sinn, and Hannah Went will be speaking/participating.

Aging Research & Drug Discovery 2022 will be held August 29–September 2 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
 
Our Nir Barzilai, Evelyne Bischof, Judith Campisi, João Pedro de Magalhães, Kristen Fortney, Vadim Gladyshev, Vera Gorbunova, Steve Horvath, Matt Kaeberlein, Brian Kennedy, Gordan Lauc, Morgan Levine, Andrea B. Maier, Morten Scheibye-Knudsen, and Alex Zhavoronkov will be speaking/particpating.

Read the sci-fi, sci-fact play Coffeehouse Magik by our Coni Ciongoli-Koepfinger.

The Interpretable Natural Language Processing (INLP) AGI-22 Workshop will be held August 19–22 in Seattle, Washington and in cyberspace.
 
Our Anton Kolonin and Linas Vepstas will be speaking/participating.

TAFFD’s Gen4IR Summit will be held August 16–17 in Sun City, South Africa.
 
Our Kevin Allen, Bill Andrews, Ùgò Chúkwú, José Luis Cordeiro, Aubrey de Grey, Edward Hudgins, Al Karaki, Pius Adewale Owolawi, Kgomotsego Brenda Ramokopelwa, Sarita Sharma, Rohit Talwar, and Natasha Vita-More will be speaking/participating.
 
This summit is devoted to accelerating our Singularity future for development in Africa.

The Liberty International World Conference 2022 will be held August 11–15 in Tbilisi, Georgia.
 
Our José Luis Cordeiro will be speaking/participating.

Read Falling Up: How to get to Proxima Centauri by our Mike McCulloch.

Ending Age-Related Diseases 2022 will be held August 11–14 in cyberspace.
 
Our Vadim Gladyshev, Steve Hill, Steve Horvath, Brian Kennedy, Michael Lustgarten, and Tim Maupin will be speaking/participating.

DEF CON 30 will be held August 11–14 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
 
Our Richard Thieme will be speaking.

The Future Forum will be held August 4–7 in San Francisco, USA. Our Allison Duettmann and Anders Sandberg will be speaking.
 
250 bright individuals will gather in a welcoming South San Francisco mansion, mingle with many of the voices thinking and working on improving the future of humanity, and we will co-create one-on-one conversations, fireside chats, workshops, and more.

Read Science and the Skeptic: Discerning Fact from Fiction by our Marc Zimmer.

Read Future Bright, Future Grimm: Transhumanist Tales for Mother Nature’s Offspring by our D.J. MacLennan.

Read If It’s Smart, It’s Vulnerable by our Mikko Hyppönen.

Read The End of Astronauts coauthored by our Martin Rees.

Read issue #240 of Lifeboat News!

The Women in AI Breakfast will be held on July 19 in San Francisco, California. This is part of Transform 2022’s in-person event.

The Fifteenth International Symposium on Neurobiology and Neuroendocrinology of Aging will be held in Bregenz, Austria on July 15–19.
 
Our Holly Brown-Borg and Matt Kaeberlein will be speaking/participating.

FreedomFest 2022 will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada on July 13–16.
 
Our Tom W. Bell, John Chisholm, José Luis Cordeiro, Aubrey de Grey, Edward Hudgins, and Michael Strong will be speaking.

Enter to win the Maximon Longevity Prize which is valued at over 50,000 US dollars. Judges include our Evelyne Yehudit Bischof, João Pedro de Magalhães, Collin Ewald, and Brian Kennedy.
 
The Maximon Longevity Prize for Translational Research awards outstanding breakthrough research in the field of longevity that can be translated for clinical or non-clinical applications and has the potential to substantially increase healthspan or lifespan of humans.

Kevin Allen, Chief Community Officer and Ambassador at OpenExO, joins our Business Board.

Ùgò Chúkwú joins our Futurists Board.
 
Ùgò is the Founder and Chief Learning Coach at Nexeve, trained Philosopher, and Futurist. He is the COO at TAFFD’s, the director of TAFFD’s Future Discussions Podcast, and their Ambassador to Nigeria.

RAADfest will be held October 6–9 in San Diego, California. This is the world’s largest event focused on anti-aging and age reversal science for a general audience.
 
Our Bill Andrews, José Cordeiro, Greg Fahy, William Faloon, Ben Goertzel, Jean Hébert, Naveen Jain, Sandra Kaufmann, Phil Newman, Liz Parrish, Steve Perry, and Michael R. Rose will be speaking.
 
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Art Toegemann joins our blog team with the post Metasurfaces Open the Door to Telekinesis and Telepathy With Technology.

Al Karaki, CEO of 4iAfrica, joins our Futurists Board.

Read issue #239 of Lifeboat News!

In celebration of Pride Month, Inara Tabir, one of our board members, is fundraising to pay for her transition surgery. We donated.
 
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Read Special Report Building Musk’s path to Mars by our John Strickland.
 
To the public, the media and even some of the space community, the last year for SpaceX has not seemed to be progressing that fast. However, right before our eyes, what Musk calls “stage zero”, the complex launch tower and associated platform and tank farm, was being designed and built and is now almost ready to support launches. Steady progress has been made in the production of and design improvements to the two main space vehicles, the Starship stage and the Super Heavy booster. The capacity to build more vehicles at Boca Chica is shortly to be four times larger, as a much larger high bay building nears completion.

Read issue #238 of Lifeboat News!

Chip Walter, author of Immortality, Inc.: Renegade Science, Silicon Valley Billions, and the Quest to Live Forever, joins our Life Extension Board.

Jeff Smith, Project Manager at Ball Aerospace, joins our Space Settlement Board.

Sarita Sharma, Editor-in-Chief of TAFFD’s Magazine of the Future, joins our Futurists Board.

Read Special Report The SLS: too expensive for exploration? by our John Strickland.
 
Many members of the space community have spoken out strongly against NASA’s plans to develop the Space Launch System (SLS), disparagingly called the “Senate Launch System” by some and the “Franken-Rocket” by others. It should be noted for fairness that, to a large degree, this wrong design has been forced on NASA by a Congress bent on keeping current space jobs in their current locations.

Read issue #237 of Lifeboat News!

Pius Adewale Owolawi, Head of the Department of Computer Systems Engineering at Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa, joins our Engineering Board.
 
Pius is an accomplished researcher in the fields of high-frequency communications (Radiofrequency, Free Space Optical Communication, Satellite communication), image processing, embedded systems, Internet of Things (IoT), and the application of Machine Learning (ML) techniques to image recognition, predictions, and modeling.

RAADfest will be held October 6–9 in San Diego, California. This is the world’s largest event focused on anti-aging and age reversal science for a general audience.
 
Our José Cordeiro, Greg Fahy, William Faloon, Ben Goertzel, Jean Hébert, Naveen Jain, Sandra Kaufmann, Phil Newman, and Liz Parrish will be speaking.

Read issue #236 of Lifeboat News!

Kgomotsego Brenda Ramokopelwa, CEO of TAFFD’s, joins our Futurists Board.
 
TAFFD’s is a transdisciplinary group of innovators. Founded to serve as a global hub for innovation, this nongovernmental organization aims to engage people through education by showing them the advantages and challenges of using technology in high-impact industries and disciplines across the globe.

AGI-22 will be held August 19–22 in Seattle, Washington, USA and online.
 
Our Antonio Chella, Ben Goertzel, Marcus Hutter, Matthew Iklé, Anton Kolonin, Xiang Li, John Licato, Alexey Potapov, Rafal Rzepka, Ricardo Sanz, Bas Steunebrink, Pei Wang, and Roman Yampolskiy will be speaking/participating.
 
The AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) conference series plays a significant role in the resurgence of research on artificial intelligence in the deeper, original sense of the term of “artificial intelligence”. The conference encourages interdisciplinary research based on different understandings of intelligence, and exploring different approaches. As the AI field becomes increasingly commercialized and well accepted, maintaining and emphasizing a coherent focus on the AGI goals at the heart of the field remains more critical than ever.

TAFFD’s Gen4IR Summit will be held August 16–17 in Sun City, South Africa.
 
Our José Luis Cordeiro, Aubrey de Grey, Edward Hudgins, Rohit Talwar, and Natasha Vita-More will be speaking. This summit is devoted to accelerating our Singularity future for development in Africa.

Ken Otwell joins our blog team with the post Meta AI is sharing OPT-175B, the first 175-billion-parameter language model to be made available to the broader AI research community.

Read issue #235 of Lifeboat News!

Barbara Amelia King joins our Media & Arts Board. She is an artist, media producer, writer, and space studies researcher.

Melvin Louis joins our blog team with the post The Large Hadron Collider Is Back and Ready to Hunt for Dark Matter.

Riz Virk, author of The Simulation Hypothesis, joins our Futurists Board.

Leigh Outten, coauthor of Pulsed Nuclear Space Propulsion and International Law: Some Preliminary Observations, joins our Space Settlement Board.

Angelique Ahlström, CSO and Cofounder at Flash Forest, joins our Sustainability Board.
 
Flash Forest uses flying drones to plant hundreds of thousands of seed pods across Canada and internationally, aiming to be the most scalable and cost-effective method of reforestation.

Evelyne Yehudit Bischof joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
 
Evelyne is a specialist and expert in Internal Medicine with a research focus on Artificial Intelligence and Digital Health, especially in the fields of Oncology, Preventative and Precision Medicine, Biogerontology, and Geronto-Oncology.

Ovie Desire joins our blog team with the post What Code Of Ethics Must Robots Follow.

Robert Grüning joins our blog team with the post Is the US military testing an anti-aging pill?

Nicole Cagar joins our blog team with the post Kizoo Portfolio Company Revel Pharmaceuticals Announces $8.4M Seed to Develop Repairing-Based Approaches to Reversing Aging.

Sabinije von Gaffke, Head of Sustainability at Nibiru Software, joins our Sustainability Board.

Colt Lafreniere, Founder of Global Acquisition Partners, joins our New Money Systems Board.

Lifeboat’s GETA level has been raised from Guarded to Elevated because NATO members Turkey and Estonia are said to be blocking Russian military movements due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. This could lead to conflict between NATO and Russia, leading to billions of deaths in a World War.

Len Rosen joins our blog team with the post Making Scientific Discoveries Open to All.

Jonathan Warrell, who coauthored Quantum Computing at the Frontiers of Biological Sciences, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.

Doug Plata, Founder of The Space Development Network (SDN), joins our Space Settlement Board.

Michael Benjamin, Founder of The Science Mic, joins our Futurists Board.

Xiang Li, a member of the Temple AGI Team, joins our Robotics/AI Board.

Andrea B. Maier joins our Life Extension Board. Andrea is Professor of Gerontology at VU Amsterdam and Professor of Medicine and Healthy Aging and Codirector of the Centre for Healthy Longevity at the National University of Singapore.

Phil Newman joins our Life Extension Board. Phil is the Editor-in-Chief at Longevity Technology and CEO at First Longevity,

Sebastian A. Brunemeier, CEO at ImmuneAGE Pharma, joins our Life Extension Board.

Read issue #234 of Lifeboat News!

Read Special Report Interstellar Travel and Post-Humans by our Martin Rees.
 
The Earth has existed for forty-five million centuries — and even longer timespans lie ahead before the Sun dies. But even in this vast time-perspective, the present century is special. It is the first when humans may establish communities away from the Earth. And it is the first when they may create electronic intelligences that surpass their own all-round capabilities, and also achieve the ability to bio-engineer their progeny. In this report, some aspects of this transition are discussed, along with some even more speculative comments about “post-human” evolution, and the future of the universe itself.

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.

Daniel Cebo, author of Big Data: A Twenty-First Century Arms Race, joins our Information Sciences Board.

Liliana Alfair joins our blog team with the post Scientists Used CRISPR Gene Editing to Choose the Sex of Mouse Pups.

Chiara Chiesa joins our Space Settlement Board. Chiara is the founder and organizer of the global hackathon NASA International Space Apps Challenge in Brescia.

Read issue #233 of Lifeboat News!

The 2021 Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award has been given to Martine Rothblatt who has devoted her life to moving humanity towards a positive future.
 
Martine was the 500th person to join our Advisory Board, has contributed to our blog, and has generously supported the Lifeboat Foundation’s goal of “Safeguarding Humanity”.
 
Martine is cofounder of the Terasem Movement Foundation. Their mission is to promote the geoethical (world ethical) use of nanotechnology for human life extension. They conduct educational programs and support scientific research and development in the areas of cryonics, biotechnology, and cyber consciousness. This foundation is related to the Lifeboat Foundation programs LifePreserver and PersonalityPreserver (which Martine contributed text to).
 
The Terasem Movement Foundation publishes The Journal of Personal Cyberconsciousness and The Journal of Geoethical Nanotechnology.
 
Learn more!

Paul Moscarella joins our blog team with the post UN talks adjourn without deal to regulate “killer robots”.

Gordan Lauc joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Gordan is CEO at Genos and CSO at GlycanAge. He also launched the Human Glycome project.

Read Special Report What is Human Enhancement, and why is it good for our society? by our Guido Putignano.
 
According to a study made by the European Parliament, the umbrella term “Human Enhancement” refers to a wide range of existing, emerging, and visionary technologies, including pharmaceutical products: neuro implants that provide replacement sight or other artificial senses, drugs that boost brain power, human germline engineering and existing reproductive technologies, nutritional supplements, new brain stimulation technologies to alleviate suffering and control mood, gene doping in sports, cosmetic surgery, growth hormones for children of short stature, anti-aging medication, and highly sophisticated prosthetic applications that may provide specialized sensory input or mechanical output.
 
All these technologies signal the blurring of boundaries between restorative therapy and interventions that aim to bring about improvements extending beyond such therapy.

Read Young Italy Award to Guido Putignano from Taranto for studies of synthetic biology and regenerative medicine. This article which was translated from the original Italian is about our Guido Putignano.

Denisa Lepădatu joins our blog team with the article Continuity. An evolutionary perspective on art.

Read issue #232 of Lifeboat News!

Hannah Went, Director of Operations at TruDiagnostic, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.

Collin Ewald, President of the Swiss Society For Aging Research, joins our Life Extension Board.

Daniel Ives joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Daniel is CEO and Founder at Shift Bioscience, a preclinical drug discovery and development company creating the first small molecule drug for safe repair of mitochondria, the energy producing organelle.

Michael Lustgarten joins our Life Extension Board. Mike is Scientist II on the Nutrition, Exercise Physiology, and Sarcopenia (NEPS) Team at the HNRCA at Tufts University.

Kevin Myrick joins our Space Settlement Board. Kevin is CEO of InterPlanetary Ventures, Chief Synergy Officer at Synergy Moon, and Executive Director at the Space Renaissance Initiative.

Dan Levitt joins our Life Extension Board. He is an acclaimed international speaker, elder care leader, writer, and gerontologist, specializing in helping others to create better lives for seniors.

Shubham Ghosh Roy joins our blog team with the post Tesla is moving driver profiles to the cloud for smooth transitions between cars, rentals, and more.

Our John K. Strickland Jr. and Sam Spencer just authored the books Settling Space and Developing Space.

Dan Breeden joins our blog team with the post Real Lab Grown Meat is Here! — Buying Synthetic Meat TODAY.

Brigitte Hanly, Chief Scientist at the Stemaid Institute, joins our Life Extension Board.

Anastasiya Giarletta, CEO and Cofounder at Aikora Health, and Principal at R42 Group, joins our Life Extension Board.

Steve Perry, CEO at GDF11 Rejuvenation, joins our Life Extension Board.

Shahriar Mahmud joins our blog team with the post Developing an AI that ‘thinks’ like humans.

Chris J. Kent joins our blog team with the post What’s The State Of Vertical Farming In 2021?

Read Special Report To Food and Beyond: How Synthetic Biology will Revolutionize the Space Food Sector in the Future by our Guido Putignano.
 
Access to fresh food is the main obstacle to long-term space exploration and human colonization: limiting the possibilities and impacting the astronaut’s mental and physiological health. It limits how far away from Earth we can travel and how long we can stay in space since there is a limit to how much food we can stock or initially carry to space. If we are to travel to Mars or the Moon, we need food production systems that are bio-regenerative, and that can locally feed the communities with quality nutrition.

Read issue #231 of Lifeboat News!

Ines O’Donovan, Editor-in-Chief of Jeunessima Magazine, joins our Life Extension Board.

Miguel Pais-Vieira joins our Neuroscience Board. Miguel is studying sensory-motor integration and brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) in rodents and humans.

Claudio Soprano joins our blog team with the post Tiny Balls Turn Into Artificial Cells Able to Mimic Life Functions.

Inara Tabir, CEO at Galaxies Aerospace, joins our Space Settlement Board.