Rejuvenation Biotechnology Conference 2014
Our Marķa Blasco, Judith Campisi, Jeffrey Karp, Neil Littman, Stephen
Minger, David Schaffer, Einar M. Sigurdsson, and Evan Snyder will be
speaking at the Rejuvenation Biotechnology Conference 2014 on August
21-23, 2014 at the Santa Clara Hyatt Regency Hotel, California, USA. Get
25% off with the discount code LIFEBOAT25.
Learn more at http://www.sens.org/RB2014
WorldFuture 2014 and Lifeboat Dinner Update
WorldFuture 2014 will be held July 11-13, 2014 at the Hilton Orlando
Bonnet Creek Hotel, Orlando, Florida, USA. Our Guillermina Baena,
Lawrence Baines, Rob Bencini, Peter Bishop, Ted Chu, Brenda Cooper, José
Cordeiro, Jason Dunn, Cindy Frewen, Jay Gary, Lesley Gist, Jerome Glenn,
Fabienne Goux-Baudiment, Linda Groff, Bill Halal, Trevor Haldenby, Derek
Boyd Hankerson, Glen Hiemstra, Elina Hiltunen, Andy Hines, Rudi Hoffman,
Barbara Marx Hubbard, Zoltan Istvan, Zhouying Jin, Steven M. Johnson,
Ted Kahn, Cadell Last, James H. Lee, Tom Lombardo, Tim Mack, Gary Marx,
Kate McCallum, Alex McManus, Ramez Naam, Claire Nelson, Bj Price, Clay
Rawlings, Kevin Russell, Laura Schlehuber, John Schmidt, Gray Scott,
Rupam Shrivastava, John M. Smart, Rick Smyre, Kiko Suarez, Jason
Swanson, Patrick Tucker, Ashok Vaseashta, Alexandra Whittington, Lindsea
Wilbur, and Michael Zey will be speaking/participating.
You can learn more at http://www.wfs.org/worldfuture-2014-what-if
Our José Cordeiro will be hosting a free dinner for our members at the
hotel on July 13 at 6:30 pm. RSVP by sending an email with the subject
"Lifeboat Foundation Dinner" to
Recommended Book
Read "The Asteroid Threat: Defending Our Planet From Deadly Near-Earth Objects" at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/161614...OVMJ44J7
Blog
Jason Batt joins our blog team with the post "100 Year Starship Call for
Papers // 2014 Public Symposium" at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/05/100-ye...re-11400
José Luis Cordeiro joins our blog team with the post "15 Global
Challenges... and 15 Global Opportunities" at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/06/15-glo...tunities
Maciamo Hay joins our blog team with the post "Is it possible to build
an artificial superintelligence without fully replicating the human
brain?" at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/06/is-it-...an-brain
Clément Vidal joins our blog team with the post "New book: The Beginning
and the End by Clément Vidal" at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/06/new-bo...nt-vidal
Recent interesting blog posts include:
"Data Science: What the Facebook Controversy is Really About" by Seb at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/07/data-s...ly-about
"The Immortalists: New doc explores the radical life extension movement" by
Seb at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/07/the-im...movement
"Mind uploading won't lead to immortality" by Maciamo Hay at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/06/mind-u...ortality
"The Moore's Law of 3D Printing... Yes it Does Exist, And Could Have
Staggering Implications" by Seb at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/06/the-mo...ications
"The Navy's Rail Gun Hides a Secret" by Benjamin T. Solomon at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/05/the-na...a-secret
"RE: Does Advanced Technology Make the 2nd Amendment Redundant?" by Harry
J. Bentham at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/06/re-doe...edundant
"Scientists Reconnect Severed Nerves With Liquid Metal" by Seb at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/05/scient...id-metal
"The Transhuman Olympics: Where Entertainment Meets Innovation" by
Zachary Urbina at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/05/the-tr...novation
Growing Membership
Recent donations/pledges we have received since our last newsletter:
Michael Dickey: $85,
Sergio M.L. Tarrero: $85,
Philippe Van Nedervelde: $85,
Kenneth P. Weiss: $85,
Martin Dinov: $50,
J. Broadbent: $25,
Matthew L. McGuirl: $25,
Anonymous: $11.20 (including 0.0003572 bitcoins and 120 solarcoins),
Rebecca R. Cooper: $10,
Thomas Dolphin: $10,
Alexander Macrae: $10,
Aaron Mayzes: $10,
Philip Morehead: $10,
and Roland Schiefer: $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.
