Latest News
Jul 27, 2010
Read issue #96 of Lifeboat News!
Jul 25, 2010
Markus Schmidt joins our
Biotech/Medical Board and Ethics
Board. Markus was a speaker at the
first meeting of
The U.S. Presidential Commission
for the Study of Bioethical Issues.
His research interests include risk assessment, the science-society
interface, and technology assessment (TA) of novel bio-, nano-, and
converging technologies, with a special focus on synthetic biology.
Jul 24, 2010
Hannes Sjöblad joins our Finance Board. Hannes Chief Operating Officer at Alpcot Capital Management Ltd. in London.
Jul 23, 2010
Our updated Space Habitats page is up thanks to James Doehring.
Jul 23, 2010
The Lifeboat Foundation sold 24 copies of Apocalypse When?: Calculating How Long the Human Race Will Survive yesterday. Visit our Lifeboat Foundation Amazon store. (This store is identical to Amazon but donates about 6.5% of its proceeds to us.)
Jul 23, 2010
Peter Sweeney, Founder and Co-President of Primal Fusion, joins our Information Sciences Board. Primal has developed a semantic synthesis technology that solves core scalability and personalization issues in knowledge representation for the consumer Internet.
Jul 22, 2010
Jonathan Smallwood, featured in The New York Times article Discovering the Virtues of a Wandering Mind, joins our Neuroscience Board.
Jul 22, 2010
George Palasantzas, who has put the Casimir effect to work as a nano-switch, joins our Nanotechnology Board.
Jul 21, 2010
Dan Huh joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Dan has developed a living, breathing human lung-on-a-chip.
Jul 20, 2010
Howie M. Choset joins our Robotics/AI Board. Recently, Howie cofounded a company called Cardiorobotics which makes a small surgical snake robot for minimally invasive surgery. (And raised over $10 million for this venture!)
Jul 20, 2010
Erik Brynjolfsson, coauthor of Wired for Innovation: How Information Technology is Reshaping the Economy, joins our Business Board. Erik is also the Schussel Family Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Director of the MIT Center for Digital Business, Chair of the MIT Sloan Management Review, and the Editor of the Information Systems Network.
Upcoming Events
TransVision 2010 will be held October 22-24 in Milan, Italy.
This conference will be a very intense, informative,
scientific as well
as an entertaining tour de force in contemporary transhumanist thinking,
activism, science, technology & innovation and grand visionary dreams,
with over 40 talks distributed over three days.
Our Riccardo Campa,
Lincoln Cannon,
José Luis Cordeiro,
Aubrey de Grey,
Robert M. Geraci,
Ben Goertzel,
Randal A. Koene,
Miriam Leis,
Eugen Leitl,
David Orban,
David Pearce,
Giulio Prisco,
Martine Rothblatt,
Anders Sandberg, and
Natasha Vita-More will be
speaking.
