Latest News
Jan 10, 2020
Lifeboat Foundation mourns the passing of
Mike Resnick who fought to
“Safeguard Humanity” until the end.
Mike was the all-time leading award winner, living or dead, for short fiction. He won 5
Hugos (from a record 37 nominations), a Nebula, and other major awards in the USA, France,
Japan, Spain, Catalonia, Croatia, Poland, and China. He’s the author of 78 novels, 280
stories, and 3 screenplays, and the editor of 42 anthologies. His work has been translated
into 27 languages.
He was also editor of
Galaxy’s Edge magazine
until the end of his life.
Jan 8, 2020
Eithen Pasta joins our blog team A US $30 million fund to promote bold ideas for aging populations: Dr Victor Dzau.
Jan 7, 2020
Kaiser Matin joins our blog team with the post The ‘Goldilocks’ principle for curing brain cancer.
Jan 6, 2020
Aaron Vesey joins our blog team with the post The Ecological Challenge of Artificial Superintelligence.
Jan 4, 2020
Paul Velho joins our blog team with the post What CRISPR-baby prison sentences mean for research.
Jan 4, 2020
Mike Diverde joins our blog team with the post Rethinking Consciousness: A Scientific Theory of Subjective Experience.
Dec 31, 2019
Read issue #209 of Lifeboat News!
Dec 31, 2019
The
2020 International Conference on Future Africa will be held April 21–23 at the University of Rwanda.
The theme of the conference is “Compliance to Global
Sustainability” and will be offering sessions regarding Climate
Change, Renewable Energies, Internet of Things, Futurism, Transhumanism,
Neuroscience, Biotech, International Politics, Digital
Leadership/Business, and much more.
Our
Didier Coeurnelle,
Alejandro De la Parra Solomon,
Ósìnàkáchì Ákùmà Kálù,
Anthony Kimery,
Doris Ngozi Morah,
Ira Pastor, and
Ilia Stambler will be participating/speaking.
The Lifeboat Foundation is one of the
hosts of this event.
Dec 31, 2019
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.
The 2019 Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award has been given to Jill Tarter
in recognition of her 40 years spent in the Search for
Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI). Jill’s goal is to learn
if there are any alien intelligences
outside of our “fragile island of life”.
There are real dangers
that could stop civilizations from moving forward and
the human race is not guaranteed to survive. As Jill
says, “If technologies don’t last and persist,
we will not succeed.”
Learn more!
Dec 25, 2019
Brent Ellman joins our blog team with the post To Make Robots Perform Better, Make Them Constantly Fear Death.
Dec 6, 2019
Jason Stone joins our blog team with the post Scientists Are Contemplating a 1,000-Year Space Mission to Save Humanity.
Nov 29, 2019
Read issue #208 of Lifeboat News!
Nov 27, 2019
As our contribution to Twitter Philanthropy, Lifeboat Foundation is giving away $1,000 to one person who both retweets our
tweet plus is following us. Deadline to retweet is Dec 31, 2019.
Learn more!
Nov 20, 2019
If you wish to help out Lifeboat as a system administrator, please let us know. We are based on CentOS. Send an email to [email protected] with the subject "Lifeboat Foundation CentOS".
Nov 20, 2019
We are sad to report that our Vice President Chris Haley suddenly passed
away. You can read about him at
https://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.chris.k.haley and read our many praises of
him at
https://lifeboat.com/news.cgi?177,
https://lifeboat.com/news.cgi?146,
https://lifeboat.com/news.cgi?140, and
https://lifeboat.com/news.cgi?129.
Basically, Chris Haley is the key person behind getting our Bitcoin Endowment Fund off
the ground plus he was our System Administrator plus he was always doing
things to help move Lifeboat forward. Chris had a heart of gold! We will
miss him.
