TransVision Madrid 2018
TransVision Madrid 2018 will be held October 19–21 in Madrid, Spain. Our
Didier Coeurnelle, José Luis Cordeiro, Felipe Debasa, Rodolfo Goya,
Aubrey de Grey, João Pedro de Magalhães, Ben Goertzel, Michael Greve,
Charlie Kam, Alexandre Maurer, David Pearce, Ramón Risco Delgado, Anders
Sandberg, Natasha Vita-More, and Ibon Zugasti will be
speaking/participating.
This conference will cover concepts such as longevity extension,
artificial intelligence, human enhancement, and other technologies and
future trends. Learn more at
http://transvisionmadrid.com/en/join-tr...madrid-2.
Books
Read the second edition of our “Visions of the Future” in paperback at
https://amzn.to/2NHb8A0 and in Kindle format at https://amzn.to/2N8X2X9.
“Visions of the Future” is a collection of stories and essays including
Nebula and Hugo award-winning works. In this anthology, you’ll find
stories and essays about artificial intelligence, androids,
faster-than-light travel, and the extension of human life. You’ll read
about the future of human institutions and culture. But these literary
works are more than just a reprisal of the classical elements of science
fiction and futurism. At their core, each of these pieces has one
consistent, repeated theme: us.
Read the fourth edition of our “Human Race to the Future” in paperback at
https://amzn.to/2CQzbKj and in Kindle format at https://amzn.to/2ISpyhd.
What might life, technology, and the world be like in the future?
Today’s future is tomorrow’s reality — the future is on its way!
The “Human Race to the Future” contains twenty-nine complete,
independently readable chapters of valuable and stimulating information
on what could happen, when, and in some cases even how to prepare.
Read the second edition of our “Prospects for Human Survival” in paperback
at https://amzn.to/2q0Z9oM. Read it in Kindle format at
https://amzn.to/1P4ibiE.
Advanced technologies such as computers, genetics, nanotech, robotics,
and artificial intelligence (AI) are progressing at an accelerating
pace. Futurists speak of a time called The Singularity when progress
will be so rapid that humans can no longer comprehend it. Many expect it
during the mid-century.
Wells shows that the pace is too rapid for us to safely adapt. He
discusses several of the most frightening hazards to our survival. He
also develops simple mathematical formulas for survival probability. This formulation is not based on any list of specific hazards, but
rather on the pace of progress. Statistical indicators of this pace
include gross world product, number of papers published in science and
engineering, and production of electricity and selected minerals.
Wells makes a strong case for developing friendly superhuman AI as
quickly as possible, hopefully a nurturing artificial overlord that will
protect us from ourselves. The danger is that it will not be as friendly
as we hope, but the alternative is unacceptable risk.
Also read “The High Frontier: An Easier Way” at https://amzn.to/2Ap2qn9.
$100,000 Prize
Blue Frontiers, the company building the world’s first sustainable
floating islands in French Polynesia, in collaboration with the Startup
Societies Foundation, is holding a competition to encourage the creation
of Special Economic Zones in different parts of the world that are
interested in economic growth.
The winner will be awarded with $100,000 USD plus the possibility to
become a partner in building a seastead in their home country. Nine
additional proposals will win an all-expenses paid trip to the
fully-operational floating pavilion in the Netherlands, built by Blue21,
the architects of Blue Frontiers Floating Island Project.
Learn more at https://www.blue-frontiers.global.
Longevity Film Competition
Enter the Longevity Film Competition and join us in the crusade of
eliminating age-related disease. You can not only potentially help save
lots of lives, but you can win the first prize of $10,000! Second prize
is a trip to meet our Dr. Aubrey de Grey.
Learn more at https://www.longevityfilmcompetition.com.
Michael Greve
Michael Greve is the CEO and Founder of Kizoo Technology Ventures and
the Forever Healthy Foundation. He has joined our Life Extension Board.
As Michael himself says, his lifestyle during his hacker days wasn’t
among the healthiest; his interest in healthy life extension developed
as a consequence of his efforts to switch to a healthier way of living. Eventually, his research into the science of staying healthy led him to
the work of Dr. Aubrey de Grey and the realization that staving off
age-related diseases and preserving health indefinitely was a
potentially achievable goal. Following this serendipitous discovery, he
founded and launched the Forever Healthy Foundation.
Forever Healthy’s mission is to enable people to vastly extend their
healthy lifespan and be part of the first generation to cure aging.
They support the development of rejuvenation therapies that undo the
damage of aging by funding basic research, bringing together the world’s
leading scientists at their Undoing Aging conference, and helping
startups that work on actual therapies for human use.
Learn more at https://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.michael.greve.
Blackbox
Blackbox is a group of PhDs, executives, and technologists formerly from Google, Apple, Intel, and other companies building the future of work. The cornerstone of their model is the unification of labor and capital to build a better system of work for all. Read more about their approach at https://blackboxfoundation.org.
National Upcycled Computing Collective
The National Upcycled Computing Collective takes donations of enterprise
servers, storage devices, networking infrastructure, corporate
workstations, electronic test and measurement equipment, and graphics
cards and uses them for scientific processing such as with BOINC
(Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing). They take donations
of dollars in addition to donations of equipment. You can also volunteer
and make a difference in your local area.
Learn more at http://www.nuccinc.org.
Blog
Maria Entraigues Abramson joins our blog team with the post “Longevity
Film Competition” at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/07/longe...petition
Alexandria Black joins our blog team with the post “2018 Drive to Stay
Alive organized” at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/07/click...rganized
Alex Deadpool joins our blog team with the post “Are We Alone?” at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/08/are-we-alone
Michael Dodd joins our blog team with the post “Aubrey De Grey Discusses
Indefinite Longevity” at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/08/aubre...ongevity
Ratnesh Dwivedi joins our blog team with the post “Will US Make it to
Mars as President Trump Signs New Directive for NASA and Mission Gets
Ready” at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/06/will-...ts-ready
Lilia Lens-Pechakova joins our blog team with the post “Older adults who
get physical can lower their heart disease risk” at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/08/older...ase-risk
Pat Maechler joins our blog team with the post “Why Alien Life Would be
our Doom — The Great Filter” at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/08/why-a...t-filter
Marco Monfils joins our blog team with the post “AI beats doctors in
diagnosis competition” at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/07/ai-be...petition
Bill Retherford joins our blog team with the post “Mars 2020 Spacecraft
‘Coming Together’; Probe To Seek Signs Of Ancient Alien Life” at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/08/mars-...ien-life
Marcia Wiegand joins our blog team with the post “Turbine creates energy
from oncoming traffic” at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/08/turbi...-traffic
Recent interesting blog posts include
“6 Flying Cars That You Might Actually be Able to Own (And Fly) in Your
Lifetime” by Bill Kemp at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/08/6-fly...lifetime
“A $1 Billion Telescope That Will Take Pictures 10 Times Sharper Than
Hubble’s Is Now Officially Under Way” by Shailesh Prasad at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/08/a-1-b...nder-way
“An Answer To Fermi’s Paradox” by Bill Retherford at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/08/an-an...-paradox
“A review and implications for aging research” by Franco Cortese at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/08/a-rev...research
“Bank of England’s chief economist warns A.I. could threaten ‘large’
amount of jobs” by Derick Lee at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/08/bank-...-of-jobs
“Bill Gates Says This Book Is ‘One of the Most Important’ He’s Ever
Read” by Alex Deadpool at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/08/bill-...ver-read
“Combating Crime in a Virtual Future Filled with Love and Sex” by B.J. Murphy at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/08/comba...-and-sex
“Disruptive Technologies and Dangerous Ideas — Ray Kurzweil & Peter
Diamandis” by Shailesh Prasad at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/08/disru...iamandis
“Do you want to join in the fight to end age-related disease?” by
Michael Greve at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/08/do-yo...-disease
“D-Wave Breakthrough Demonstrates First Large-Scale Quantum Simulation
of Topological State of Matter” by Klaus Baldauf at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/08/d-wav...f-matter
“Facebook implements trust scoring for all users” by Michael Lance at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/08/faceb...ll-users
“The Future of Lab-Grown Meat” by Marcos Than Esponda at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/08/the-f...own-meat
“Healthy diet linked to healthy cellular aging in women” by Lilia
Lens-Pechakova at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/08/healt...in-women
“Hitting the pause button on life” by Ian Hale at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/08/hitti...-on-life
“Humorous take on Space Force (Video)” by John Gallagher at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/08/credi...-reached
“Kelsey Moody — Antibody Mimetic for Parkinson’s Disease” by Steve Hill
at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/08/kelse...-disease
“Keynote: ‘Future of Healthy Longevity’” by Montie Adkins at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/08/keyno...ongevity
“The Life Extensionist’s Guide to Logical Fallacies” by Nicola Bagalà at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/08/the-l...allacies
“London police chief ‘completely comfortable’ using facial recognition
with 98 percent error rate” by Amnon H. Eden at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/08/londo...ror-rate
Posted by Amnon H. Eden “The Many Yous” by Steve Hill at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/08/the-many-yous
“‘Molecular clock’ study traces evolution back to ancestor of all life
on Earth” by Genevieve O’Hagan at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/08/molec...on-earth
“The most important lesson from 83,000 brain scans” by Nicholi Avery at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/08/the-m...ngecoast
“Our capacity for abstract thinking and dreams (a new brain-state of REM
or paradoxical sleep) arose during the cold to warm blooded interface”
by Steve Nichols at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/08/our-c...nterface
“Oxygen therapy miraculously reverses toddler’s brain damage” by Mary
Jain at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/08/oxyge...n-damage
“The pet projects Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and other billionaires spend
their fortunes on — from space travel to immortality” by Derick Lee at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/08/the-p...ortality
“Photo Tour: Inside Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner Spaceship Hangar” by Sean
Brazell at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/08/photo...p-hangar
“President Trump directs Defense Department to ‘immediately begin the
process’ of establishing ‘space force’ as sixth military branch” by Mary
Jain at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/08/presi...y-branch
“Quantum Computing Expert Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of
Difficulty” by Juliian C’estMoi at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/08/quant...ty-wired
“The Technological Future of Surgery: New Surgical Robots are About to
Enter the Operating Theatre” by Shailesh Prasad at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/08/the-t...-theatre
“Researchers are developing fast-charging solid-state batteries” by Bill
Kemp at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/08/resea...atteries
“Researchers use gut bacteria to turn type A or B blood into universal
donors” by Genevieve O’Hagan at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/08/resea...l-donors
“Russian arms firm Kalashnikov unveils 13-ft walking gold killer robot”
by Klaus Baldauf at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/08/russi...er-robot
“SPACEWALK: Russian cosmonauts step out of the International Space
Station for a spacewalk expected to last 6 hours and 50 minutes” by
Michael Lance at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/08/space...-minutes
“Stacking concrete blocks is a surprisingly efficient way to store
energy” by Bill Kemp at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/08/stack...e-energy
“Steven A. Garan — Silicon Valley’s Role in Fighting Aging” by Steve
Hill at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/08/steve...ng-aging
“This amazing new brain map of every synapse shows how we think” by
Nicholi Avery at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/08/this-...we-think
“Transfer Learning for Brain-Computer Interfaces: An Euclidean Space
Data Alignment Approach” by Marcos Than Esponda at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/08/trans...approach
“The Transhumanist Bill of Rights version 2.0” by Zoltan Istvan at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/08/the-t...sion-2-0
“The Universe as We Understand It May Be Impossible” by Michael Lance at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/08/the-u...possible
“The Universe Is Disappearing, And There’s Nothing We Can Do To Stop It”
by Genevieve O’Hagan at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/08/the-u...-stop-it
“We Already are Artificial Intelligence” by Marco Monfils at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/08/we-al...lligence
“What does a city of one million people on Mars look like?” by Klaus
Baldauf at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/08/what-...ook-like
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