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The New York Times says "The Lifeboat Foundation is a nonprofit that seeks to protect people from some seriously catastrophic technology-related events. It funds research that would prevent a situation where technology has run amok, sort of like a pre-Fringe Unit."
 

Read the reaction of the U.S. Naval Operations Strategic Studies Group (SSG) to meeting with experts from the Lifeboat Foundation.

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Feb 3, 2012

Tracey Wilen-Daugenti, author of .edu: Technology and Learning Environments in Higher Education and Society 3.0: How Technology is Reshaping Education, Work, and Society, joins our Education Board.

Feb 1, 2012

Learn about The Space Book Project whose goal is to create a modern guide to space for young people. It will include the newest developments in all fields of science and technology connected to space exploration. The goal is to create this book both on paper and as an app, since it will be meant for young people who lack the access to space education.

Jan 31, 2012

Read the blog post The Difference Between a Lunar Base and Colony by John Hunt.

Jan 30, 2012

Read issue #114 of Lifeboat News!

Jan 30, 2012

Monica Ebert joins our Space Settlement Board. Monica is a student at International Space University where she is completing her master's degree in Space Sciences.

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Upcoming Events

FutureMed 2012 will take place February 6–11, 2012. FutureMed team and faculty include our Sonia Arrison, David Bolinsky, Aubrey de Grey, David Ewing Duncan, Robin Farmanfarmaian, Neil Jacobstein, Ray Kurzweil, Tan Le, Raymond McCauley, Carlos Olguin, Richard Satava, and Nick Soloway.
 
This informative and interactive 5 day program will be held at Singularity University’s campus at NASA–Ames Research Park and will include lectures, discussions, workshops and site visits, led by notable Singularity University faculty and experts in the fields of medicine, biotechnology, and innovation. Learn more!


The 2nd International Conference on Genetics of Aging and Longevity will be held April 22–25, 2012 in Moscow, Russia.
 
Our Andrzej Bartke, Holly Brown-Borg, Judith Campisi, Zoya Demidenko, Vadim Fraifeld, Maria Konovalenko, Kyung-Jin Min, Michael Rose, Nektarios Tavernarakis, Jan Vijg, and Alex Zhavoronkov are participating.


WorldFuture 2012 will be held in Toronto, July 27–29, 2012 at the Sheraton Centre Toronto hotel. Our Peter Bishop, Joseph F. Coates, José Luis Cordeiro, Tom Cowper, William Crossman, Jay E. Gary, Adam Gordon, Linda Groff, William Halal, Jay Herson, Rodney Hill, John Jackson, Naveen Jain, Peter Jones, Ted Kahn, Bud Levin, Alex Peake, Sheila Ronis, Ziauddin Sardar, Heather Schlegel, Karl Schroeder, John Smart, Rick Smyre, Dave Stein, Suzanne Stein, Patrick Tucker, Verne Wheelwright, and Tracey Wilen-Daugenti will be speaking.

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