Number One Thousand
The Lifeboat Foundation celebrates the addition of our 1,000th SAB
member: A. C. Grayling. Anthony is Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck,
University of London and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne's College,
Oxford.
Anthony uses philosophical logic to counter the arguments of the
sceptic, thereby shedding light on the traditional ideas of the realism
debate and developing associated views on truth and meaning. He is the
author of many books, articles, and papers.
Unlike most organizations, whose advisory boards are too small to do
more than provide some advice, our think tank provides action as well as
words. Our board members have developed programs, created reports,
donated money, fueled our blog, joined our staff, launched numerous
forums, organized events, and provided input on a range of issues from
web design to grant proposals to ideas for new areas that Lifeboat
Foundation should be involved in. We welcome A. C. Grayling to our
little think tank!
Read the press release at
http://lifeboat.com/ex/press.releases.1...s.on.sab
The Singularity Summit 2009
Our Ben Goertzel, Aubrey de Grey, Marcus Hutter, Randal Koene, Ray
Kurzweil, Gary Marcus, Anders Sandberg, Jürgen Schmidhuber, and Eliezer
Yudkowsky will be speaking at The Singularity Summit 2009 which will be
held in New York on October 3-4 in Kaufmann Hall at the historic 92nd St Y.
Learn more at http://lifeboat.com/upcoming
Frank C. Adamek
Frank C. Adamek joins us and says "The generations of humanity do not
get to choose the troubles and dangers that assail them; their only
choice is whether and how to meet those dangers. Technological progress
is reaching a critical point, smashing through the conventional
boundaries between what humans were or were not capable of, thrusting
into our trembling hands the radically enhanced power to both destroy
ourselves and to remake our world and very beings.
This situation cannot continue for any great length of time, and if we
cannot seize hold of this power to create a safer and more positive
world then we seemed destined to permanent disability or death. No
generation before us has shouldered such responsibility, and if we act
with wisdom and foresight it may be that no future generation will have
to. If so we are the most critical generation that ever has been or will
be, uniquely positioned to determine the fate of life in our corner of
the universe for potentially millions of years, and we must act
accordingly."
Learn more at http://lifeboat.com/ex/donor.date.list#...c_adamek
Books
Read "Planetary Messenger" by our Jacob D. Haqq-Misra. This novel
explores the social, scientific, and spiritual consequences of
discovering another planet in the galaxy just like our Earth.
This book is available at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/144211...42110546
Also, see 371 books authored by our Scientific Advisory Board (SAB)
members at http://lifeboat.com/wheel.cgi?show
Growing Membership
Recent donations/pledges we have received since the last newsletter:
Sergio M.L. Tarrero: $85,
Michael Anissimov: $85,
Eric Bauswell: $85,
Michael Dickey: $85,
Jason Gaverick Matheny: $85,
Philippe Van Nedervelde: $85,
Kenneth P. Weiss: $85,
Frank C. Adamek: $25,
C M Anderson: $25,
Rick Hubbard: $25,
Alan R. Light: $25,
Matthew L. McGuirl: $25,
Anonymous: $20,
Ronald Amos: $10,
Alexander Braitberg: $10,
Stephen Fleming: $10,
Christopher Dilkus: $10,
Thomas Dolphin: $10,
Sylvia Engdahl: $10,
George Garrett: $10,
Joseph P. Jackson III: $10,
Linus Petersson: $10,
and John N. Philipps (Jack): $10.
Our Join Us page at https://lifeboat.com/ex/join.us now allows you to
pay for your membership anywhere from monthly to every ten years.