Books
Learn about "Conversations with the Future: 21 Visions for the 21st Century" at http://amzn.to/2ml0KU8
Digitalisation for a Sustainable Society: Updated!
IS4SI 2017: Digitalisation for a Sustainable Society: Embodied,
Embedded, Networked, Empowered through Information, Computation &
Cognition! will be held in Gothenburg, Sweden on June 12–16, 2017.
Our Jens Allwood, Jared Bielby, Piotr Boltuc, Joseph E. Brenner, Mark
Burgin, Mark Carrigan, José María Díaz Nafría, Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic,
Raffaela Giovagnoli, Olle Häggström, Francis Heylighen, Marios Kyriazis,
Cadell Last, Robert Lowe, Gerald Midgley, Marcin Milkowski, Kazé A. Onguene, Guillermo Rodriguez-Navas, Jordi Vallverdú, Clément Vidal,
David Weinbaum (Weaver), and Hector Zenil will be
speaking/participating.
Learn more at http://is4si-2017.org
Surge of Support
The Lifeboat Foundation has received a growing surge of support during the past year and now has 1,081 donors. You can support us by joining as a member at https://lifeboat.com/ex/join.us or by donating at https://lifeboat.com/ex/donate.
Social Media
Our social media is getting more active. Check out our Twitter feed at https://twitter.com/lifeboathq and our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/lifeboatfoundation
Blog
Brett Gallie II joins our blog team with the post "Bigelow Aerospace
offers plan for an expandable space station orbiting the moon by 2020"
at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/03/bigelo...-by-2020
Nancie Hunter joins our blog team with the post "Growing tissue grafts on
humanoid robots: A future strategy in regenerative medicine?" at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/03/growin...medicine
Jimmé Peters joins our blog team with the post "Perspectives on AI by
Calisa Cole" at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/03/perspe...isa-cole
Vjekoslav Radišic joins our blog team with the post "Apis Cor 3D Prints
a Fully Livable House" at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/03/apis-c...le-house
Germen Roding joins our blog team with the post "Want more crop variety?
Researchers propose using CRISPR to accelerate plant domestication" at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/03/want-m...tication
Alexander Rodionov joins our blog team with the post "Eternal Youth Is
the Next Big Bet for Singapore Venture Capitalist" at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/03/eterna...pitalist
Saúl Morales Rodriguéz joins our blog team with the post "NASA’s Jet
Propulsion Lab created these super-strong grippers" at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/02/nasas-...grippers
Recent interesting blog posts include:
"An AI Completed 360,000 Hours of Finance Work in Just Seconds" by
Alireza Mokri at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/03/an-ai-...-seconds
"Artificial intelligence given priority development status" by Derick Lee at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/03/artifi...t-status
"The boom is here: U.S. solar experiences record-smashing year" by
Odette Gregory at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/03/the-bo...progress
"Burger-flipping robot replaces humans on first day at work" by Dan Kummer at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/03/burger...-at-work
"China Developing Advanced Spaceship That Can Land on the Moon" by Dan
Kummer at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/03/china-...the-moon
"Denmark, Germany, Netherlands want to create 'artificial power island'"
by Klaus Baldauf at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/03/denmar...r-island
"Driver-optional cars: Once-reluctant California opens a road" by Dan
Kummer at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/03/driver...s-a-road
"First hint of how DNA calculators could supercharge computing" by
Shailesh Prasad at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/03/first-...omputing
"The future of AI is neuromorphic. Meet the scientists building digital
'brains' for your phone" by Alireza Mokri at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/03/the-fu...ur-phone
"Google's new machine learning API recognizes objects in videos" by
Alireza Mokri at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/03/google...n-videos
"Hacking the Human Brain — New Tech Could Make It a Reality" by Shane
Hinshaw at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/03/hackin...-reality
"It's Official: Time Crystals Are a New State of Matter, and Now We Can Create Them"
by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/03/its-of...ate-them
"Life and death: When the end arrives, should we upgrade or shut down?"
by Zoltan Istvan at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/03/life-a...hut-down
"Liquid Light: Scientists Unite Light and Electricity to Make
Electronics Smaller and Faster" by Andreas Matt at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/03/liquid...d-faster
"Marine Receives Double Arm Transplant" by Shailesh Prasad at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/03/marine...ansplant
"Massive commercial space push and a variety of new robotic capabilities
could self supporting and rapidly growing space economy" by Klaus
Baldauf at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/03/massiv...-economy
"Meet the automated triage nurse of the future" by Nancie Hunter at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/03/meet-t...e-future
"Pan, moon of Saturn, looks like a cosmic ravioli (or maybe a walnut)" by
Aleksandar Vukovic at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/03/pan-mo...a-walnut
"Quantum Microscope Spies on Chemical Reactions in Real Time" by Bruno
Henrique de Souza at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/03/quantu...eal-time
"Recycling Space Junk for a LunarBase" by Brett Gallie II at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/03/recycl...unarbase
"Scientists May Have Solved the Biggest Mystery of the Big Bang" by
Andreas Matt at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/03/scient...big-bang
"Supermassive Black Holes might Be Hiding Entire Universes Inside" by
Andreas Matt at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/03/superm...s-inside
"Tesla Completes Hawaii Storage Project That Sells Solar at Night" by
Odette Gregory at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/03/tesla-...loomberg
"This MIT robot reads your mind to know when it screws up" by Alireza
Mokri at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/03/this-m...crews-up
"This never-before-seen extra from White Rabbit Project is from the afternoon I spent with actual cyborg Angel Giuffria"
by Albert Sanchez at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/03/this-n...giuffria
"This super-fast 3D printer is powered by holograms" by Nancie Hunter at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/03/this-s...olograms
"Ukrainian designers unveils concept of military transformer flying vehicle"
by Klaus Baldauf at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/03/ukrain...-vehicle
Growing Membership
Recent donations/pledges we have received since our last newsletter:
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