World Futures Day
The World Futures Day by The Millennium Project, in cooperation with the
Association of Professional Futurists (APF), Humanity+, Lifeboat
Foundation, and the World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF), will take
place on March 1st for the 10th year!
Our Yul Anderson, Adriano Autino, Marsia Bealby, Nadja Bester, José
Cordeiro, Franco Cortese, Francesco Da Vinci, Daniela de Paulis, Tom
Diffenbach, Martin Dudziak, Jerry Edling, Paul Epping, Giorgio
Gaviraghi, Jerome Glenn, Al Globus, Trevor Haldenby, Robin Hanson, Rudi
Hoffman, Maxim Kholin, Kevin LaGrandeur, Pavel Luksha, Andrea Maier,
David Orban, Nonthapat “Brave” Pulsiri, Paul Saffo, Rohit Talwar, James
Tankersley Jr., Jaba Tkemaladze, Hannah Went, and Bronwyn Williams will
be speaking/participating.
You are invited to join the discussion on Zoom at
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5221011954?pw...dXQ4Zz09
on March 1st, ideally at noon in your time zone. (You can pick a
different time if noon doesn’t work for you.)
Learn more at https://lifeboat.com/ex/press.releases....ures.day
Books
Read “Beyond Knowledge: How Technology Is Driving an Age of
Consciousness” by our William E. Halal at https://amzn.to/3wfzvw6
Read “Eponymous Plot Device: A Collection of Short Science Fiction
Stories” by our Jeremy Lichtman at https://amzn.to/3kz29Wt
Read “Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness: Third Edition” by
our Newton Lee at https://amzn.to/3WqGahw
Read “The Future of Humanity: From Global Civilization to Great
Civilization, Second Edition” by our Zhouying Jin at
https://amzn.to/3XFepmr
Read “Photovoltaics for Space: Key Issues, Missions and Alternative
Technologies”, coedited and coauthored by our Al Hepp at
https://amzn.to/3ZSdIrT
Read “Silicon Anode Systems for Lithium-Ion Batteries” at
https://amzn.to/40oBSul and “Lithium-Sulfur Batteries: Advances in
High-Energy Density Batteries” at https://amzn.to/3wVVCrP, both coedited
and coauthored by our Al Hepp.
Papers
Read the open access paper “Restriction enzymes use a 24 dimensional coding space to recognize 6 base long DNA sequences” by our Thomas D. Schneider at https://journals.plos.org/plosone/artic....0222419
Bobby Farlice-Rubio
Vermont House of Representative Bobby Farlice-Rubio joins our Policy Board. Learn more at https://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.bobby.farlice-rubio
Blog
Recent interesting blog posts include:
“A new device can make drinking water from seawater at the push of a
button” by Shubham Ghosh Roy at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/12/a-new...a-button
“Advanced ‘Lab on a Chip’ — Scientists Have Created a Powerful,
Ultra-Tiny Spectrometer” by Quinn Sena at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/12/advan...trometer
“Approaching optimal entangling collective measurements on quantum
computing platforms Physics” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/01/appro...-physics
“Astronomers find a way to detect a bizarre stellar object that exists
for just a few milliseconds” by Atanas Atanasov at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/01/astro...iseconds
“Bees may feel pain” by Raphael Ramos at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/12/bees-...eel-pain
“ChatGPT is on its way to becoming a virtual doctor, lawyer, and
business analyst. Here’s a list of advanced exams the AI bot has passed
so far” by Raphael Ramos at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/01/chatg...d-so-far
“China completes world’s largest solar telescope array with a whopping
313 dishes” by Alberto Lao at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/12/china...3-dishes
“Cybernetic Theory: The Code of Reality & Our Future as Cybergods |
Talk” by Alex Vikoulov at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/01/cyber...ods-talk
“Discovery of ‘impossible’ superconductor promises 100x faster
electronics” by Dan Breeden at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/12/disco...ctronics
“Dubai to create world’s first 3D printed mosque” by Robin Indeededo at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/01/dubai...d-mosque
“Elon Musk’s Starlink has 1M active subscribers globally amid expansion”
by Eric Klien at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/12/elon-...xpansion
“Gene editing company plans to resurrect the dodo” by Future Timeline at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/02/gene-...the-dodo
“Google Labs unveils Pitchfork, an AI that can convert old code to new
code and rewrite itself” by Quinn Sena at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/12/googl...e-itself
“Green Tea Is Associated With Reduced All-Cause Mortality Risk” by Mike
Lustgarten at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/01/green...ity-risk
“How AI found the words to kill cancer cells” by Quinn Sena at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/12/how-a...er-cells
“How To Have A HEALTHY 105-Year Lifespan (Soon 120-Years)” by Montie
Adkins at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/01/how-t...20-years
“Is Death Real? New Experiments Raise Important Questions on What it
Means to Die” by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/12/is-de...s-to-die
“Kent team creates material that can stop supersonic impacts” by
Omuterema Akhahenda at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/12/kent-...-impacts
“Madman Invents Robot Suit That Lets Snake Walk With Legs” by Shane
Hinshaw at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/01/madma...ith-legs
“Metabolism: This Video Explains Metabolism” by Myra Sehar at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/01/metab...tabolism
“Methods for building lunar landing pads may involve microwaving moon
soil” by Genevieve Klien at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/12/metho...oon-soil
“Mirror test of wild penguins suggests they may possess self-awareness”
by Nicholi Avery at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/01/mirro...wareness
“New Blood Test Accurately Predicts Alzheimer’s Years Ahead of First
Symptoms” by Paul Battista at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/12/new-b...symptoms
“New Estimates Suggest There Are Around 300 Million Habitable Planets in
Our Galaxy” by Shubham Ghosh Roy at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/12/new-e...r-galaxy
“New Theory Suggests That the Origin of Life on Earth-Like Planets Is
Likely” by Dan Breeden at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/12/new-t...s-likely
“Nuclear energy could help astronauts survive 336-hour-long lunar
nights” by Atanas Atanasov at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/01/nucle...r-nights
“Plasma Propulsion Discovery Could Herald a ‘New Era of Space
Exploration’” by Alberto Lao at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/12/plasm...loration
“Researcher uses AI to make texts that are thousands of years old
readable” by Dan Kummer at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/02/resea...readable
“Resting Heart Rate, Heart Rate Variability: What’s Optimal, 1600+ Days
of Data” by Mike Lustgarten at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/01/resti...-of-data
“Robot prototype with ‘human consciousness’ in the making: ‘This is
bigger than curing cancer’” by Paul Battista at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/01/robot...g-cancer
“Rumoured AI-enhanced Nvidia graphics driver could boost performance” by
Dan Kummer at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/01/rumou...formance
“Russia to send rescue mission to International Space Station after
capsule leak” by Alberto Lao at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/01/russi...ule-leak
“Scientists discover a new mechanism to generate cartilage cells” by
Raphael Ramos at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/12/scien...ge-cells
“Scientists invent biobatteries that can be powered inside the human
body” by Gemechu Taye at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/12/scien...man-body
“Squid and human brains develop the same way despite diverging 500
million years ago” by Nicholi Avery at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/01/squid...ears-ago
“Surprising Discovery: MIT Neuroscientists Find That Adult Brain Is
Filled With Millions of ‘Silent Synapses’” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/01/surpr...synapses
“There is No Nuclear Option in War” by 21st Century Tech Blog at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/01/there...n-in-war
“This AI chatbot will be playing attorney in a real US court” by Kelvin
Dafiaghor at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/01/this-...us-court
“This bold new mission will try beaming solar power down from space” by
Atanas Atanasov at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/01/this-...om-space
“Two potentially Earth-like planets found 16 light years away” by Future
Timeline at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/01/two-p...ars-away
“VR mastermind John Carmack leaves Meta for good and goes all in on AGI”
by Dan Kummer at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/12/vr-ma...n-on-agi
“Why 21 cm is the magic length for the Universe” by Shubham Ghosh Roy at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/12/why-2...universe
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