Lifeboat Foundation

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  Our Space Habitats program works to build fail-safes against global existential risks by encouraging the spread of sustainable human civilization beyond Earth.

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  Read the AsteroidShield program completed by our Scientific Advisory Board. Learn about the dangers caused by asteroids and proposed solutions to this problem.

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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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  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.

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  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.

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  Watch our high resolution Doomsday Curve Video!
   
  This video documents that the percentage of humanity it takes to kill all of humanity is decreasing over time and soon a small group of people, or even a single person, will be able to threaten the survival of humanity.

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

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  Watch Nokia Morph Concept. Morph is a concept demonstrating some of the possibilities nanotechnologies might enable in future communication devices.
   
  Morph can sense its environment, is energy harvesting, and self cleaning. Morph is a flexible two-piece device that can adapt its shape to different use modes. Nanotechnology enables us to have adaptive materials yet rigid forms on demand.

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  Karlin Sloan, founder and CEO of Karlin Sloan & Company and author of Smarter, Faster, Better: Strategies for Effective, Enduring, and Fulfilled Leadership, joins our Business Board.

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  IBM, Microsoft, and Sun employees — learn how you can get your membership fees and donations to Lifeboat Foundation matched by your employer! (This includes retired IBM employees as well!)

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  Our Scientific Advisory Board completes our BioShield program. The BioShield goals have been endorsed by U.S. Senator Bill Frist, Sun Cofounder Bill Joy, and Futurist-Inventor Ray Kurzweil!

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  Read Singularities and Nightmares by David Brin.

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  Lifeboat Foundation launches 3 books! The Lifeboat Foundation has launched three books. They are: The Human Race to the Future: What Could Happen — and What to Do, Fourth Edition by Daniel Berleant, Visions of the Future, Second Edition edited by J. Daniel Batt (with 42+ authors!), and Prospects for Human Survival by Willard H. Wells.

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  Our David Pearce has authored the special report Brave New World? A Defense Of Paradise-Engineering.
   
  In the future, it will be feasible technically — at the very least — for pharmacotherapy and genetic medicine to re-engineer us so that we can become — to take one example among billions — a cross between Jesus and Einstein. Potentially, transhumans will be endowed with a greater capacity for love, empathypsychopaths by comparison; and posterity will be right.
   
  In contrast to Brave New World, however, the death of ageing won’t be followed by our swift demise after a sixty-odd year life-span. We’ll have to reconcile ourselves to the prospect of living happily ever after. Scare-mongering prophets of doom notwithstanding, a life of unremitting bliss isn’t nearly as bad as it sounds.