Summer Growth Fund
Our Summer Growth fund is near our halfway goal of $10,000 with $7,530.00 raised. To help meet our halfway goal, Jeff Bone/Topsight Fund and Donald Maclean will triple all donations if you enter TRIPLELIFEBOATNEWS in the Comments section at https://lifeboat.com/ex/summer.growth
The Human Race to the Future
We have launched The Human Race to the Future Facebook group where you can interact with the book's author at https://www.facebook.com/groups/thehuma...hefuture
Facebook Contest
Anyone who posts to our Facebook group at
https://www.facebook.com/groups/lifeboatfoundation by June 30, 2013 will
be entered into a contest to win a free autographed copy of our "The
Human Race to the Future: What Could Happen — and What to Do".
The following people have already entered the contest: Sia Abderezai,
Pesh Ant, Henry B. Augustine, Robin Lmaogaard Bäcklund, Klaus Baldauf,
Josh Bartolome, Paul Battista, Marios Belibassakis, Apache M Benso,
Kevin Berry, Joyce Bettencourt, Maurizio Bisogni, Alex Michael Bonnici,
Lahoucine Bouzit, Phil Bowermaster, Jay Burton, Matt Campbell, Quentin
Chevalier, Clyde Christopher, Mihai Cirimpei, Brenda Cooper, Zac
Corbett, Franco Cortese, Nikola Danaylov, Cuentín Caballero De La
Granja, Fradique Lee Duarte, Amnon Eden, Odd Edges, Bradford Ellis,
Eamon Everall, Walter Farah, John Fellows, Adam Ford, Tristan Hambling,
Kashif Hasnie, Larry James, Jimmy Jassy, Mike Kawitzky, Phillip Keane,
Tom Kerwick, Adam Kisby, Wes Kretzschmar, Heikki Lääkkö, Ron Langdon,
Felix Lanzalaco, Jeremy Lichtman, Drew Illvp Little, Renato Longato,
Mike Lorrey, Shantel Louvre, Jønathan Lyons, Galih Malaka, Richard
Mallah, Vanderlei Martinianos, Brady McKenna, Jeffery Mercer, John
Moravec, Zaq Mosher, Thomas Munyon, Moana Nalu, Ken Nielsen, Shanee
Nishry, Michael Nuschke, B.j. Ó Murchadha, Lawrence A. Oshanek, Armen
Papazian, Julius Sagittarius Parvus, Ira Pastor, Emanuel Pastreich,
Emilio Perez, Rafael S. Ponio, Charles F. Radley, Phaethon Rhadamanth,
Jameson Rohrer, Paul Rosenberg, Peter Rothman, Giovanni Santostasi,
William Schnaufer, Eric Schulke, John Shafer, Avinash Singh, Chris
Smedley, Valentin Socolov, Kim Solez, Kelly Starks, Anouar Tahiri, Jessy
Tallent, Cecile Tamura, Sergio Tarrero, TheMawt Thiew, Reno J. Tibke,
Bük Toon, Tran Anh Tuan, Pierre Turcotte, Andy Turner, Albert M C Vargas
Jr., Susan Waitt, Glenn A. Walsh, Simon Waslander, and Roman V.
Yampolskiy.
Learn about our book at
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/148000...found-20
Fundraising Success
Our financial and media support for "Glowing Plants: Natural Lighting with no Electricity" helped raise $484,013 for this project. Learn more at http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ant...ref=live
Blog
Dennis Chamberland joins our blog team with the post "The Power of the
Move Outbound" at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2013/05/the-po...outbound
DataPacRat joins our blog team with the post "Comic: Rationality Matters"
at http://lifeboat.com/blog/2013/05/comic-...-matters
Clyde DeSouza joins our blog team with the post "Why does Science
Fiction gravitate towards Dystopia and not the Utopia that Transhumanism
promises?" at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2013/05/why-do...promises
Ciaran Healy joins our blog team with the post "Who Wants To Live
Forever?" at http://lifeboat.com/blog/2013/05/who-wa...-forever
Federico Pistono joins our blog team with the post "There is no war
other than the one we are fighting with ourselves" at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2013/05/there-...urselves
Avi Roy joins our blog team with the post "If you want to live longer,
do nothing" at http://lifeboat.com/blog/2013/05/do-not...ive-long
We have added Facebook, Twitter, Google, and LinkedIn buttons to our
blog posts. They are below each post and above the comments section.
Test them at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2013/05/why-do...promises
and if you see any problems mail
Other recent interesting blog posts include:
"4 ways Google Glass makes us Transhuman" by Clyde DeSouza at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2013/05/4-ways...anshuman
"Gravitoelectromagnetic Theories and their Applications to Advanced
Science & Technology" by Benjamin T. Solomon at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2013/05/gravit...chnology
"How Could WBE+AGI be Easier than AGI Alone?" by Franco Cortese at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2013/05/how-co...gi-alone
"The Hubris of Neo-Luddism" by Franco Cortese at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/author/franco-cortese
"The Impending Crisis of Data: Do We Need a Constitution of Information?"
by Emanuel Yi Pastreich at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2013/06/the-im...ormation
"Lust for life: breaking the 120-year barrier in human ageing" by Avi Roy
at http://lifeboat.com/blog/2013/06/lust-for-life
"A Rose By Any Other: X-Risk, Existential Risk, or Extinction Risk?" by
Franco Cortese at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2013/05/a-rose...ion-risk
"Transhumanism, Eugenics and the Dirrogate Immigration Challenge" by
Clyde DeSouza at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2013/06/transh...hallenge
"Vaccinate against B.S.O.D — Insure your Memories" by Clyde DeSouza
at http://lifeboat.com/blog/2013/06/vaccin...memories
Books
Read "Memories with Maya" at
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/148251...found-20
This novel explores the impact Augmented Intelligence will have in
personal relationships and in society.
Papers
Our Tom Kerwick has authored a paper on the exploration of the Jovian
system for the Washington Academy of Sciences titled "Colonizing
Jupiter’s Moons: An Assessment of Our Options and Alternatives" at
http://www.environmental-safety.webs.co...rnal.pdf
Read "Long-Term Enhancement of Brain Function and Cognition Using
Cognitive Training and Brain Stimulation" coauthored by our Roi Cohen
Kadosh at
http://www.cell.com/current-biology/abs...#Summary
Reports
Read "The Principles of Extropy: A Quarter Century Later" by our José Luis Cordeiro at http://lifeboat.com/ex/the.principles.of.extropy
Sites
Learn about "Hypervillage: A Model for Revitalizing Rural Life" at http://issuu.com/bravenewearth/docs/hypervillage
Videos
Watch "IP is a thought crime: Joren De Wachter at TEDxLeuven" at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5BOBs3Nmbw
Watch "TEDxVienna — Federico Pistono — Robots Will Steal Your Job, but
That's OK" at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl...feZcXA9U
Read the book at
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009R9...found-20
Vote
Vote on "Will the average work week really decline significantly in our
lifetimes?" at
https://www.facebook.com/groups/thehuma...4571858/
If you are not a member of this group, you can join for free by clicking
the "Join Group" tab in the upper right of the page.
Growing Membership
Recent donations/pledges we have received since our last newsletter:
Donald Maclean: $2,400,
Alan DeRossett: $125,
Brenda Cooper: $120,
John P. Lee: $100,
Michael Dickey: $85,
Philippe Van Nedervelde: $85,
Kenneth P. Weiss: $85,
Anonymous: $60,
John Ratnaswamy: $50,
J. Broadbent: $25,
Irene J. Dabrowski: $25,
Matthew L. McGuirl: $25,
Frank W. Sudia: $20,
James Bracken: $10,
Rebecca R. Cooper: $10,
Thomas Dolphin: $10,
Alexander Macrae: $10,
Aaron Mayzes: $10,
Philip Morehead: $10,
Roland Schiefer: $10,
Benjamin T. Solomon: $10,
Ryan Witt: $10,
XpertSEO: $5,
SexiSEO: $5,
igloo Estate Agents Hamilton: $3,
FitMole: $3,
SzybkaNauka.pro: $3,
Bottle Rocket: $1,
Dallas Jewelry: $1,
Improve at Things: $1,
Ipswich Dentist: $1,
Kingdom Ice Vending: $1,
The Outlet Village: $1,
and Team KwikKar: $1.
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.
