Lifeboat Foundation

Featured Stories

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  Do you have free or inexpensive space available for an entertaining Lifeboat Foundation volunteer? If so, send a message to volunteer@lifeboat.com with the subject “Lifeboat Foundation Space”.

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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.

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  Saskia Sassen, author of A Sociology of Globalization and Cities in a World Economy, joins our Human Trajectories Board. Saskia coined the term global city.

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  Jill Tarter joins our Astrobiology/SETI Board. Jill is known for her work on the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (SETI). She holds the Emeritus and Bernard M. Oliver Chair for SETI at the SETI Institute and is the former director of the Center for SETI Research and has been with SETI since 1984.
   
  Jill’s astronomical work is illustrated in Carl Sagan’s novel Contact. In the film version of Contact, the protagonist Ellie Arroway is played by Jodie Foster. Jill conversed with the actress for months before and during filming, and Arroway was largely based on her work.

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  Rafaela Hillerbrand joins our Complex Systems Board and Ethics Board. She is a member of the Future of Humanity Institute staff and earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Erlangen-Nünberg and a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics at the University of Müster and the Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur.

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  Read I, Nanobot by Alan H. Goldstein.
   
  Scientists are on the verge of breaking the carbon barrier — creating artificial life and changing forever what it means to be human. And we’re not ready.

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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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  Amy Li joins our Media & Arts Board. Amy is a multidisciplinary creative director and designer, specializing in branding, creative marketing strategy, and user experience design for global brands such as Yahoo, AT&T, VW, Sony etc. She is also on the board of directors of Humanity+.

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  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.

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  Read Minding the Planet: The Meaning and Future of the Semantic Web by Nova Spivack.