Lifeboat Foundation

Featured Stories

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  Listen to I am the very model of a Singularitarian by our Charlie Kam.

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  Andrzej Bartke, winner of the first Methuselah Mouse Prize, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.

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  Alan Stern joins our Space Settlement Board. Alan is principal investigator of the New Horizons mission to Pluto among his various accomplishments which include being named to Time 100's list of most influential people.

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  Ray Kurzweil says “Currently at least 99 percent, if not 99.9 percent, of the computational capacity of all the computers on the Internet lies unused.” We say “Join FightAIDS@Home to use spare clock cycles on your computer to help discover new drugs that fight AIDS! Join our team!”

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  Watch Productive Nanosystems: From molecules to superproducts on our Videos page.

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  Watch robot quadrotors perform the James Bond theme on our Videos page.

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  Russia accused of unleashing cyberwar to disable Estonia and Georgia.

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  Read Jurisprudence of Artilects: Blueprint for a Synthetic Citizen by Frank W. Sudia, JD.

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  Bindeshwar Pathak, the great humanist and social reformer of contemporary India, joins our Sustainability Board. After Gandhi, Dr. Pathak is the man, more than any other in India, who has championed sanitation and upliftment of the untouchables as the mission of his life. For the last three decades he has been working relentlessly to keep the ecosystem clean and bring the marginalized sections of society in the mainstream.

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  Watch a Japanese simulation of what a large meteorite collision would look like.
  

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  Courtney Boyd Myers, who put together a massive report for Forbes on the state of artificial intelligence, joins our Futurists Board.

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  Astrophysicist, author, and recording artist Fiorella Terenzi, described by Time Magazine as “a cross between Carl Sagan and Madonna”, joins our Media & Arts Board and Space Settlement Board.
   
  Fiorella has performed and recorded with artists from Herbie Hancock to Ornette Coleman and earned her doctorate in physics from the University of Milan.

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  Help us design Ark I — our fallback position in case programs such as our BioShield and NanoShield fail.

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  Alper Bozkurt, who is developing cyborg cockroaches to be used as emergency responders, joins our Engineering Board.

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