TV07
Jerry Glenn, Charlie Kam, Philippe Van Nedervelde, and Shannon Vyff
have been added to our TV07 lineup!
Our Scientific Advisory Board members José Cordeiro, George Dvorsky,
Jerry Glenn, Aubrey de Grey, James Hughes, Charlie Kam, Ray Kurzweil,
Michael LaTorra, Max More, Giulio Prisco, Philippe Van Nedervelde,
Natasha Vita-More, and Shannon Vyff will be speaking at Transvision 2007
- Transforming Humanity: Innerspace to Outerspace from July 23 to July
25 at Chicago, IL, USA. It will be wall-to-wall Lifeboat Foundation
Scientific Advisory Board members!
Learn more at http://www.transvision2007.com/
InternetShield
Thanks to input from Kemal Akman, our InternetShield program at
http://lifeboat.com/ex/internet.shield has been upgraded and is now
listed as one of our six current programs.
As the Internet grows in importance, an attack on it could cause
physical as well as informational damage. An attack today on hospital
systems or electric utilities could lead to deaths. In the future an
attack could be used to alter the output that is produced by
nanofactories worldwide leading to massive deaths.
Wikipedia
Our Wikipedia entry at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifeboat_Foundation needs some work. Help fix it!
MySpace
Sylvia Engdahl became our MySpace webmaster and has expanded and improved our MySpace page. Learn more about Sylvia at http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.sylvia.engdahl See our MySpace page at http://www.myspace.com/lifeboatfoundation
Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google and coauthor of "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach", the leading textbook in the field, joins our Scientific Advisory Board. Learn about Peter at http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.peter.norvig
Ray Kurzweil
Read the Fortune article "The smartest (or the nuttiest) futurist on Earth" at http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/...0008848/ which covers our genius Ray Kurzweil.
David Brin
David Brin announced that his next book will feature the Lifeboat Foundation! Learn about David at http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.david.brin
Interviews
Listen to the interview of our Michael Anissimov by RU Sirius at
http://mondoglobo.net/neofiles/shohw-78...blivion/
Listen to the interview of our Michael Anissimov on Changesurfer Radio
at http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/csr20070428/
Growing Membership
Thoughtware.TV has joined as a LF-500 member.
They said
"Many walk the perilous path in which some claim that technology will solve our problems, and others say it will destroy us.
We each have the responsibility of working hard towards a positive future. You can make a difference. Your potential is without limit.
Thoughtware.TV is proud to sponsor the Lifeboat Foundation."
Also, Jaan Tallinn, cofounder of Skype, the only major IM client that
both securely authenticates conversation participants and encrypts the
communication, donated $10,000 to Lifeboat Foundation. This currently
puts him in 2nd place with Ray Kurzweil in the lead and Sergio M.L. Tarrero close behind. (Kurzweil has the lead by the skin of his teeth!)
Our donor list at http://lifeboat.com/ex/donor.list is now sortable by
name, date, and amount.
Here are some of the recent donations/pledges we have received since
the last newsletter:
Thoughtware.TV: $25,000,
Jaan Tallin: $10,000,
Sergio M.L. Tarrero: $3,170,
Anonymous: $95,
Michael Dickey: $85,
Philippe Van Nedervelde: $85,
Kenneth P. Weiss: $85,
James Blodgett: $25,
John Claus: $25,
Adam Dobrin: $25,
James William Taylor: $25,
Sylvia Engdahl: $10,
Stephen Fleming: $10,
Glenn A. Miller: $10,
Jeremy Shepard: $10,
Kaj Sotala: $10,
and Michael Vassar: $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.
