Lifeboat News #282

• World Futures Day
• Gemechu Taye
• Longevity Biomarkers Competition
• Global Longevity Federation 2026
• Store
• InfoPreserver Program
• Articles
• Papers
• Books
• Blog
• Growing Membership

World Futures Day

March 1st will be the 13th 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.
 
This year, we will be joined at 12 pm East Coast US time by Vint Cerf, Internet pioneer.
 
Our Danesto B. Anacio, Scot Bryson, Puruesh Chaudhary, Ravi Kumar Chaudhary, Marina Cortês, Tom E. Diffenbach, Volney Faustini, Amy Lynn Fletcher, Zann Gill, Jerome C. Glenn, Linda MacDonald Glenn, Shams Hamid, Peter Johnson, James Kass, Robert S. Katz, Salman Khatani, Krisztina E. Lengyel-Almos, Pavel O. Luksha, Liselotte Lyngsø, Eden Mamut, Monica Mastrantonio, Tumelo Mojapelo, Claire A. Nelson, Lorna Okeng, David Orban, Kristiina (Orasmäe) Paju, Paul Saffo, Amalie Sinclair, Dave Tex Smith, Kim Solez, Peter R. Solomon, Rohit Talwar, Victoria Ustimenko (Laskina), Erika Vaiginiene, and Bronwyn Herold Williams will be speaking.
 
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!
 
There is no cost to participate. Learn more at https://www.millennium-project.org/worl...e-globa/

Gemechu Taye

Lifeboat member Gemechu Taye is looking to join a team, full-time or internship!
 
He is a software engineer and AI builder finishing his Master’s in CS at LMU Los Angeles this May.
 
For context, he has hands-on experience shipping AI-powered products to production. He recently built https://www.vehique.ai, a conversational vehicle marketplace from scratch — designed the multi-agent architecture, built the full stack, and scaled it to over 3,000 monthly users. Prior to that he has a couple of research engineering experiences at seed-stage startups. He has experience building end to end, whether that’s the AI layer, backend and infra, or full-stack product work.
 
He’s looking to join where he can create impactful products.
 
All his projects and experience are in his portfolio at https://gemechu.xyz
 
If you’re hiring or know someone who might be, please feel free to reach out to him.

Longevity Biomarkers Competition

The Longevity Biomarkers Competition will have it’s opening summit on February 6–8 in Roatán, Honduras.
 
Join 100+ longevity athletes, leading researchers, and clinicians for a groundbreaking 30-day biomarkers competition while we unveil the International Longevity Research Database — unifying healthspan and lifespan around peak performance across life.
 
Our Niklas Anzinger, David Barzilai, Joshua Helman, Macsue Jacques, Andrea B. Maier, Mahdi Moqri, Ivan Morgunov, Raghav “RV” Sehgal, and Jasmine Smith will be speaking.
 
Learn more at https://www.rejuve.ai/longevitybiomarke...nference

Global Longevity Federation 2026

Global Longevity Federation 2026 will be held March 23–24 in Rome, Italy and in Cyberspace.
 
Our Ravi Kumar Chaudhary, Lore Dikovsky, Marios Kyriazis, Greg Macpherson, Ivan Marandola, Robert Mitchell, Leo Nissola, Francisco Martínez Peñalver, and Yumi Sato will be speaking.
 
Our David Barzilai, Aubrey de Grey, Jyothi Devakumar, Fiona Miller, Georgios Mitrou, and Ilia Stambler were past speakers at this event.
 
Learn more at https://longevityfederation.com

Store

Our Lifeboat store is having a big sale! If you buy anything within 30 days of publication of this newsletter, contact us, and we’ll send you a 25% rebate on your purchases!
 
This is in ADDITION to any sale our store may be having at that time. Our store is at https://lifeboat.com/store
 
Besides getting Lifeboat items at our futuristic store, you can now get even more Lifeboat items at The 100 Years to Extinction MEGA store at https://mega.printful.me
 
Enjoy!

InfoPreserver Program

Our Frank D. Smith has been working on our InfoPreserver Program for about 20 years. This program is a standardized, text-based repository which covers the necessary skills for a civilization rebuild, in case of a catastrophic failure in our global systems.
 
Frank initially created a basic wiki at https://lifeboat.com/infopreserver and is now ready to take it to the next level as civilization is at a critical point, making our efforts on InfoPreserver more relevant and urgent than ever.
 
Over the past year, he has gathered approximately 500 seed documents, developed the ontology and presentation system as best he can, and is now ready to collaborate to move the project forward.
 
We ask that anyone interested in this program first examine the overview guide at https://lifeboat.com/pdfs/infopreserver...v1.5.pdf and then give comment on the ontology and/or gather useful documents for the existing categories. We are also interested in ideas for a file storage system outside of our wiki and a way to teach reading English to non readers. (Is it possible to bootstrap with text/image only?)
 
Let’s build!

Articles

Read the article “Houston, We Have a Problem… (Let’s Get to Solving It)” by our David Bray at https://oodaloop.com/analysis/decision-...lving-it
 
A few decades from now, historians might conclude we are living in a Second Gilded Age. In a bit of a repeat of the 1890s, our mid-2020s seems to be an era where technological advancements have triggered fear and uncertainty about what the application of those technologies means for workers, industries, and nations. Massive polarization of politics was present in the 1890s and the beginning of the 1900s, with the United States Congress slightly more polarized than our current era. Similarly, a push-and-pull over regulation of technological advancements during the First Gilded Age mirrors some of what we see now amid our Generative AI.
 
Now the United States and countries around the world are facing another wave of technological evolutions and disruptions, to include the latest advancements in commercial space capabilities, biotech and synthetic biology, quantum technologies, Internet of Things sensors, as well as Artificial Intelligence.

Papers

Read “AI Ethics for Boards and the C-Suite”, coauthored by our Kevin LaGrandeur at https://www.directorsandboards.com/arti...-c-suite
 
Read “The Deleuzian Stereo: Stability in an Age of Endless Becoming” by our Ahmed Bouzid at https://lifeboat.com/pdfs/the.deleuzian...ming.pdf
 
Read “A landscape of consciousness: Toward a taxonomy of explanations and implications” by our Robert Lawrence Kuhn at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a...23001128
 
In this article, Robert seeks an organizing framework for diverse theories of consciousness and to explore their impact on big questions. His central theses are twofold: (i) understanding consciousness at this point cannot be limited to selected ways of thinking or knowing, but should seek expansive yet rational diversity, and (ii) issues such as AI consciousness, virtual immortality, meaning/purpose/value, life after death, free will, etc., cannot be understood except in the light of particular theories of consciousness.
 
Read detailed reviews of this article on IAI News at https://iai.tv/articles/seeing-the-cons...uid-2901 and SciTechDaily at https://scitechdaily.com/challenging-re...iousness
 
Read “Life Extension Should Come with Wisdom: Reflections and Questions for the Geroscience and Longevity Community” by our Alberto Aparicio at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38877805
 
Read “What Is the Lifeboat, Anyway?: Ship, Lifeboat, or Something Larger?” by our Frank D. Smith at https://lifeboat.com/pdfs/what.is.the.l...yway.pdf

Books

Read “Anatolian Tails: A Tale of Two Tails” by our David Evans at https://amzn.to/4pFm4zO
 
When two curious cats slip through their garden gate, a simple day of exploration becomes an extraordinary adventure through the ancient city of Ankara. Join them on a journey through the ages as they explore the Turkish capital’s hidden wonders.
 
Read “Be A Masterpeace Not A Monsterpiece: Walk the Path of Peace, Purpose, and Power” by our Maria Olon Tsaroucha at https://amzn.to/4q7lYRi
 
Read the free book “ESTAR-RAIZ Protocol: A framework for ethical interaction between humans and artificial intelligence, emphasizing consciousness, symbolic structures, and collaborative learning” by Claudio Criniti at https://lifeboat.com/pdfs/estar-raiz.protocol.pdf
 
Read “The New World on Mars: What We Can Create on the Red Planet” by our Robert Zubrin at https://amzn.to/4rLJqoB
 
Read “SUPRA GUARDIANS: The Victorious Journey of Self-Actualization, Love, and Transformation Against the Seven Sins” by our Maria Olon Tsaroucha at https://amzn.to/4qmxOHg
 
Read “Transhumanism, Science Merchants and the Future of Man” by our Ebénézer Njoh Mouellé at https://amzn.to/4p8RYDr
 
Read “WhiteGrass” by our Richard Smith at https://amzn.to/49oBm64
 
In 2048, humanity’s survival is on the line. After a superstorm nearly destroys them, teenagers Jimmy and Lizzie Marshall push their nonscientist dad, Greg, to unleash WhiteGrass, a groundbreaking nanotech to fight climate change. With his AI expert wife, Ginny, they reprogram the world’s most advanced humanoid, Valada, to help. But a powerful syndicate of oligarchs sets its sights on WhiteGrass.

Blog

Recent interesting blog posts include:
 
“A Common Vitamin Could Help Protect Your Lungs From Air Pollution” by Paul Battista at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/12/a-com...ollution
 
“After Neuralink, Max Hodak is building something even wilder” by Michael LaTorra at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/12/after...n-wilder
 
“AI leaders flunk existential safety planning, new report finds” by Magaly Santiago at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/12/ai-le...rt-finds
 
“AI Now Decodes Your Sweat to Spot Early Signs of Disease” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/12/ai-no...-disease
 
“AMD at CES® 2026” by Quinn Sena at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2026/01/amd-at-ces-2026
 
“Ants may hold solution to human superbug, researchers discover” by Natalie Chan at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/12/ants-...discover
 
“Bill Gates on why AI will become ‘hyper competitive’” by Kelvin Dafiaghor at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/12/bill-...petitive
 
“China’s ‘Darwin Monkey’ is the world’s largest brain-inspired supercomputer” by Quinn Sena at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/12/china...computer
 
“Controversial view on the origin of life | Michael Levin and Lex Fridman” by Dan Breeden at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/12/contr...-fridman
 
“Diabetes drugs may be changing cancer in surprising ways” by Natalie Chan at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2026/01/diabe...ing-ways
 
“DNA will replace hard drives as data storage in the future” by Dan Breeden at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/12/dna-w...e-future
 
“Epigenetic Aging Reversal: How DNA Repair May Turn Back Time” by Biohacking News at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/12/epige...ack-time
 
“For the 1st time ever, a person who uses a wheelchair will fly to space” by Kelvin Dafiaghor at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/12/for-t...to-space
 
“Google CEO Sundar Pichai hints at building data centres in space; Elon Musk replies” by Kelvin Dafiaghor at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/12/googl...-replies
 
“How Vince Gilligan designed ‘Pluribus’ to destroy every sci-fi trope” by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/12/how-v...fi-trope
 
“The Incredible Science of Bioprinting” by Dan Breeden at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/12/the-i...printing
 
“Medicine’s AI Evolution” by Genevieve Klien at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/12/medic...volution
 
“Microscopic Droplets Reveal DNA’s Secret Architecture” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/12/micro...itecture
 
“Nanomotors drive protein network formation inside artificial cells” by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/12/nanom...al-cells
 
“Natural protein drug may slow neuron death linked to Alzheimer’s disease” by Shubham Ghosh Roy at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/12/natur...-disease
 
“Nearby super-Earth may be our best chance yet to find alien life” by Natalie Chan at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2026/01/nearb...ien-life
 
“Neuroscience of Kissing: Brain Benefits & Stress Relief” by Biohacking News at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/12/neuro...s-relief
 
“New graphene breakthrough supercharges energy storage” by Genevieve Klien at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/12/new-g...-storage
 
“On biological and artificial consciousness: A case for biological computationalism” by Cecile G. Tamura at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/12/on-bi...ionalism
 
“Perseverance Finds Tropical-Style Clays on Mars” by Laurence Tognetti at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/12/perse...-on-mars
 
“Physicists have worked out a universal law for how objects shatter” by Shubham Ghosh Roy at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/12/physi...-shatter
 
“Platelet-inspired nanoparticles can boost brain-computer interface electrode performance” by The Neuro-Network at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/12/plate...formance
 
“Quantum collapse model” by Yuta Aoki at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2026/01/quant...se-model
 
“Reactivating CCNA2 Gene Enables Adult Heart Cells to Regenerate” by Quinn Sena at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/12/react...generate
 
“Scientists Announce a Real Warp Drive Is Now Possible” by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2026/02/scien...possible
 
“Scientists Create 7 Remarkable New Ceramic Materials by Simply Removing Oxygen” by Brent Ellman at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/12/scien...g-oxygen
 
“Scientists Unveil Breakthrough Method to Mass-Produce Cancer-Fighting Natural Killer Cells” by Genevieve Klien at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2026/01/scien...er-cells
 
“Seismic Data Reveals Where Space Junk Hits Earth” by Laurence Tognetti at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2026/01/seism...ts-earth
 
“The Teen Brain Builds Synapse Hotspots Scientists Never Saw Before” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2026/01/the-t...w-before
 
“This Common Blood Pressure Drug Boosts Lifespan And Slows Aging in Animals” by Paul Battista at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2026/01/this-...-animals
 
“Tiny Chip Could Scale Quantum Computers” by Laurence Tognetti at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/12/tiny-...omputers
 
“Tiny Metal Nanodots Obliterate Cancer Cells While Largely Sparing Healthy Tissue” by Magaly Santiago at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/12/tiny-...y-tissue
 
“Titans + MIRAS: Helping AI have long-term memory” by Cecile G. Tamura at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/12/titan...m-memory
 
“Turmeric for Longevity: What Science Really Says” by Biohacking News at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/12/turme...lly-says
 
“Where’s my qubit? Scientists develop technique to detect atom loss” by Yuta Aoki at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/12/where...tom-loss
 
“World’s first 10,000-qubit processor marks 100× quantum scaling leap” by Paul Battista at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/12/world...ing-leap
 
“You Don’t Need Psychic Powers for Telepathy, Scientists Say—Your Brain Already Does It” by Shubham Ghosh Roy at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2026/01/you-d...-does-it