Lifeboat Foundation

Featured Stories

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  Jaan Tallinn, cofounder of Skype, the only major IM client that both securely authenticates conversation participants and encrypts the communication, donates over $10,000 to Lifeboat Foundation.

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

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  Sonia Arrison, an author and policy analyst who has studied the impact of new technologies on society for the better part of a decade, joins our Futurists Board. A frequent media contributor and guest, her work has appeared in many publications including CBS MarketWatch, CNN, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today.

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  Our donor list is now sortable by amount, date, membership type, and name.

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  Sarah Marr, cofounder of the SENS Foundation, joins our Policy Board. Sarah’s extensive background includes everything from a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics to spending several years as a business and IT consultant with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture).

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  Our ScientificFreedomShield program strives to protect scientists from obstacles that would prevent latter day Max Plancks from completing their research.

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

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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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  Meredith L. Patterson, who discovered a major security flaw in the Bitfrost security procedures for the OLPC, joins our Cybercrime/Malcode Board and Biotech/Medical Board. She was recently profiled by the AP for doing genetic engineering at home. Meredith enjoys knitting, sewing, and target shooting.

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  Philippe Van Nedervelde joins the Lifeboat 500, becoming one of a few special individuals and organizations to make a meaningful, but affordable commitment of the price of a cup of coffee a day, in order to help us grow!

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  Dante S. Lauretta joins our Space Settlement Board.
   
  Dante is Principal Investigator of OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer), a NASA asteroid study and sample return mission.

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

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  Alexander “Sasha” Kashlinsky, who has discovered “dark flow” which is causing hundreds of clusters of galaxies to stream en masse towards a region at the edge of the visible universe, joins our Cosmology Board. Sasha is Senior Staff Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

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  Watch demonstration of the Z450 Full Color 3D Printer on our Videos page. (Real product that makes three dimensional objects.)

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  The RPG Eclipse Phase includes the “Singularity Foundation” and “Lifeboat Institute” as player factions. Learn more about this game!