Three Books
The Lifeboat Foundation has launched 3 books! They are:
"Imaginative yet substantive, readable yet science oriented, and occasionally humorous, this book proposes future scenarios spanning from the current century to nearly eternity. Most chapters offer a concluding section with recommendations."
"In Visions of the Future you'll find stories and essays about artificial intelligence, androids, faster-than-light travel, and the extension of human life. You'll read about the future of human institutions and culture. But these literary works are more than just a reprisal of the classical elements of science fiction and futurism. At their core, each of these pieces has one consistent, repeated theme: us."
"Advanced technologies such as computers, genetics, nanotech, robotics, and artificial intelligence (AI) are progressing at an accelerating pace. Wells shows that the pace is too rapid for us to safely adapt. He makes a strong case for developing friendly superhuman AI as quickly as possible, hopefully a nurturing artificial overlord that will protect us from ourselves. The danger is that it will not be as friendly as we hope, but the alternative is unacceptable risk."
Read the press release at http://lifeboat.com/ex/press.releases.3.books
Read ongoing updates about these books at https://lifeboat.com/ex/books
Books
Read "The Prospect of Immortality — Fifty Years Later" at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/193429...CHYTGFIL
Blog
Julius Garcia joins our blog team with the post "How robotics will affect
the availability of employment and social benefits" at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2015/10/how-ro...benefits
Josef Koch joins our blog team with the post "'Zeno effect' — atoms
won't move while you watch" at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2015/10/zeno-e...-watch-2
Matthew White joins our blog team with the post "The tardigrade genome
has been sequenced, and it has the most foreign DNA of any animal" at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2015/11/the-ta...y-animal
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Kenneth P. Weiss: $85,
Lydia Fucsko: $75,
Joel D. Ticknor: $35,
Theodore Gordon: $25,
Matthew L. McGuirl: $25,
Brent L. Reitze: $25,
Anonymous: $15,
Rebecca R. Cooper: $10,
Alexander Macrae: $10,
Aaron Mayzes: $10,
Philip Morehead: $10,
Roland Schiefer: $10,
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Black Cat Tattoo Meanings and Ideas: $1,
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Mike Walker Law: $1,
Jeffrey S. Weiner: $1,
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