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Our LifeShield Bunkers program now enables you to participate in a local LifeShield Bunker.


The New York Times says "The Lifeboat Foundation is a nonprofit that seeks to protect people from some seriously catastrophic technology-related events. It funds research that would prevent a situation where technology has run amok, sort of like a pre-Fringe Unit."
 

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Mar 12, 2017

Read issue #175 of Lifeboat News!

Mar 11, 2017

Alexander Rodionov joins our blog team with the post Eternal Youth Is the Next Big Bet for Singapore Venture Capitalist.

Mar 10, 2017

M. Mark Karindas, President of the World Academy of Medical Sciences, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.

Mar 5, 2017

Brett Gallie II joins our blog team with the post Bigelow Aerospace offers plan for an expandable space station orbiting the moon by 2020.

Mar 3, 2017

Germen Roding joins our blog team with the post Want more crop variety? Researchers propose using CRISPR to accelerate plant domestication.

Mar 3, 2017

Nancie Hunter joins our blog team with the post Growing tissue grafts on humanoid robots: A future strategy in regenerative medicine?

Mar 2, 2017

Vjekoslav Radišić joins our blog team with the post Apis Cor 3D Prints a Fully Livable House.

Mar 2, 2017

Jimmé Peters joins our blog team with the post Perspectives on AI by Calisa Cole.

Feb 26, 2017

Learn about Conversations with the Future: 21 Visions for the 21st Century.

Feb 26, 2017

Saúl Morales Rodriguéz joins our blog team with the post NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab created these super-strong grippers.

Feb 26, 2017

Read issue #174 of Lifeboat News!

Feb 25, 2017

Kevin Huang joins our blog team with the post Cancer cells hijack healthy cells to help them spread to other organs.

Feb 24, 2017

Marcin Miłkowski, author of Explaining the Computational Mind, joins our Robotics/AI Board.

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Upcoming Events

The International Longevity & Cryopreservation Summit will be held May 26–28 in Madrid, Spain.
 
Our Didier Coeurnelle, José Luis Cordeiro, Rodolfo Goya, Aubrey de Grey, João Pedro de Magalhães, Maria Entraigues-Abramson, Noel García Medel, Felipe R. Debasa Navalpotro, Anders Sandberg, and Natasha Vita-More will be speaking.

IS4SI 2017: Digitalisation for a Sustainable Society: Embodied, Embedded, Networked, Empowered through Information, Computation & Cognition! will be held in Gothenburg, Sweden on June 12–16, 2017.
 
Our Jens Allwood, Jared Bielby, Piotr Boltuć, Joseph E. Brenner, Mark Burgin, Mark Carrigan, José María Díaz Nafría, Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, Raffaela Giovagnoli, Olle Häggström, Francis Heylighen, Marios Kyriazis, Cadell Last, Robert Lowe, Gerald Midgley, Marcin Miłkowski, Kazé A. Onguene, Guillermo Rodriguez-Navas, Jordi Vallverdú, Clément Vidal, David Weinbaum (Weaver), and Hector Zenil will be speaking/participating.

RAADfest 2017, the largest ever gathering of radical life extension enthusiasts, will be held August 9–13, 2017 in San Diego, California.
 
Our José Luis Cordeiro, Aubrey de Grey, Greg Fahy, William Faloon, Ben Goertzel, Terry Grossman, Zoltan Istvan, David Kekich, Liz Parrish, Neal VanDeRee, and Natasha Vita-More will be speaking.

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  • We have launched a triple partnership that includes the Lifeboat Foundation, Nanotech-Now, and The American Journal of Bioethics.
     
    The column editor for this partnership is Summer Johnson, executive editor of The American Journal of Bioethics (AJOB).

  • Now that our Scientific Advisory Board has reached an acceptable size, we are ready to fill out our staff and regular Board of Directors. The pay at this time won’t be high, but neither will your workload. Learn about our openings!

  • Jason Vaughn Clark, who created a monolithic comb drive nanomachine, joins our Engineering Board and Nanotechnology Board. This nanoscale motorized positioning device can be used in biological and engineering fields.

  • The Lifeboat Foundation now has a new official song! (You may also be cheered up by this song.)

  • Xerox researcher Frédérique Segond, who helped develop an evolutionary search engine that analyzes the meaning of words and contexts and accepts queries in everyday language, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.

  • We have launched a LinkedIn group for our Advisory Board members. The goal of this group is to help members:

    • Reach other members of the Lifeboat Foundation Scientific Advisory Boards.
    • Accelerate careers/business through referrals from Lifeboat Foundation Scientific Advisory Boards LinkedIn group members.
    • Know more than a name — view rich professional profiles from fellow Lifeboat Foundation Scientific Advisory Boards members.

  • Scott Borg, Director and Chief Economist of the U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit, a Department of Homeland Security advisory group, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.

  • Nanotechnology Now, the world’s most in-depth online resource for nanotechnology, supports Lifeboat Foundation with a free banner ad!

  • We now have quotes by Stephen Hawking on our Quotes page. Stephen was our Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award 2008 winner.

  • We now have a quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson on our Quotes page.

  • We would like your input on our InternetShield program. As the Internet grows in importance, an attack on it could cause physical as well as informational damage. An attack today on hospital systems or electric utilities could lead to deaths. In the future an attack could be used to alter the output that is produced by nanofactories worldwide leading to massive deaths.

  • Aaron Balogun is one of our LinkedIn Managers. He is also Account Manager at Capitol Advantage and Director of Operations at Flanagan Consulting, LLC.