Transcendent Man Live
Join our Ray Kurzweil in your local movie theater on August 3, 2011 at
8:00pm ET/ 7:00pm CT/ 6:00pm MT and 8:00pm PT as he gives a special
presentation on accelerating technology and its effects on our future,
followed by an all-star panel as they discuss the future of humanity,
including the merger of man and machine and the potential to live
forever! Plus, exclusively for the first time in 500 nationwide (USA)
movie theaters, extended excerpts from the acclaimed film, Transcendent
Man!
"Transcendent Man Live with Ray Kurzweil: A Conversation About the
Future" is coming to a movie theater near you Wednesday, August 3rd in a
LIVE cinema event. Limited seats available — buy your tickets today,
watch the trailer, and get more information at
http://www.fathomevents.com/originals/e...man.aspx
Improved AGI-11 Lineup
We have improved our AGI-11 lineup to include our Itamar Arel, Joscha
Bach, Anirban Bandyopadhyay, Eric Baum, James Bonaiuto, Joanna Bryson,
Antonio Chella, Haris Dindo, Marco Dorigo, Wlodzislaw "Wlodek" Duch, Rod
Furlan, Deon Garrett, Ben Goertzel, Faustino Gomez, J. Storrs Hall,
Demis Hassabis, Bill Hibbard, Marcus Hutter, Matt Iklé, Bruce Klein,
Randal Koene, András Kornai, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger, John E. Laird,
Christian Lebiere, Shane Legg, Moshe Looks, András Lörincz, Matt Luciw,
David Orban, Eray Özkural, Jan Poland, Florin Popescu, Stephen Reed,
Sebastian Rudolph, Rafal Rzepka, Alexei V. Samsonovich, Ricardo Sanz,
Tom Schaul, Matthias Scheutz, Jürgen Schmidhuber, Kristinn R. Thórisson,
Julian Togelius, Lyle Ungar, Wendell Wallach, Pei Wang, Marco Wiering,
Mary-Anne Williams, David Wolpert, and Eliezer Yudkowsky. The Fourth
Conference on Artificial General Intelligence will be hosted by Google
from August 3rd to 6th in Mountain View, California, USA.
Learn more at http://agi-conf.org/2011/
TEDxSiliconAlley
Our Chris Grayson is organizing TEDxSiliconAlley on October 27th in New
York City. TEDxSiliconAlley will give the established leaders, and
emerging young leaders, of the NYC Tech scene the opportunity to have a
soapbox for their "ideas worth spreading".
Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx/events/2226
Space Renaissance International Results
Learn the results from Space Renaissance International's first congress — an online conference including dozens of scientists, space commerce innovators, and other space enthusiasts from around the world at http://lifeboat.com/pdfs/sri.press.release.pdf
Blog
Anyone who writes at least one post on our blog between now and the
end of August will be entered into a drawing where one random winner
will have $250 donated to the charity of their choice. Our blog is at
http://lifeboat.com/blog
Also:
Odette Gregory joins our blog team with the post "Scarcity, Lack of Access"
at http://lifeboat.com/blog/2011/07/scarci...d-access
Stuart Kauffman joins our blog team with the post "No Law Entails The
Evolution Of The Biosphere" at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2011/07/no-law...iosphere
Randal A. Koene joins our blog team with the post "The Darwin Escape"
at http://lifeboat.com/blog/2011/07/the-darwin-escape
And read the blog post "Teeming Cities of Mars" by our Jared Daniel at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2011/06/teemin...-of-mars
Language Support
Our Braulio Medina Dias created a Portuguese about page for us at
http://lifeboat.com/ex/about.portuguese
Thanks Braulio!
Prometheus Award
Our Sarah Hoyt has won a Prometheus Award for "Darkship Thieves". Learn more at http://accordingtohoyt.com/2011/07/05/for-the-win/ and http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/143913...39133980
Len Sassaman Memorial
The Lifeboat Foundation mourns the death of our Len Sassaman who was a well-known cypherpunk, cryptographer, and privacy advocate. Learn more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Sassaman and http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.len.sassaman
Papers
Read "One Response to the Eight Grand Challenges" by our Richard Yonck
at http://wfs.org/content/one-response-eig...allenges
Read "The Risk that Humans Will Soon Be Extinct" by our John Leslie at
http://journals.cambridge.org/repo_A78UVeI0
Books
Learn about "2011 State of the Future", coauthored by our Jerome C. Glenn and Theodore J. Gordon at
http://millennium-project.org/millenniu...SOF.html
Our Woody Evans has just released "Arc Sodium: Various Transhuman
Positions" at
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004RV...04RVNHBW
and "Information Dynamics in Virtual Worlds" at
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/184334...43346419
Videos
Watch "My Love Affair with Space" by our Brian Malow at http://www.time.com/time/video/player/0...,00.html
Web Design/Graphic Artist Available for Hire
Frank D. Smith, who launched our InfoPreserver wiki at http://lifeboat.com/InfoPreserver, is available for hire. He has been a web designer and graphic artist since 1998, mostly serving the art and science community. He is also a freelance instructor in Adobe graphics tools, from CS5 through Acrobat. Learn more at http://underbrain.org/verbosity/teletraining/
Growing Membership
Recent donations/pledges we have received since the last newsletter:
Jeff Bone: $7,500,
Benjamin R. Hoffman: $1,000,
Johan Edström: $400,
Ray D. Wright: $160,
Rick Moss: $120,
Michael Dickey: $85,
Sergio M.L. Tarrero: $85,
Philippe Van Nedervelde: $85,
Kenneth P. Weiss: $85,
James Blodgett: $50,
Michael Breazeale: $25,
Rick Hubbard: $25,
Vineet KewalRamani $25,
Matthew L. McGuirl: $25,
Anonymous: $10,
Ronald Amos: $10,
James Bracken: $10,
Rebecca R. Cooper: $10,
Thomas Dolphin: $10,
George Garrett: $10,
Charles Hawk: $10,
Richard Kane: $10,
Alexander Macrae: $10,
Aaron Mayzes: $10,
Glenn A. Miller: $10,
Philip Morehead: $10,
Phil Nadeau: $10,
John N. Philipps (Jack): $10,
Frank D. Smith: $10,
Steve Armstrong: $3,
Stanley Garrett: $1.01,
and Tosh Garrett: $1.01.
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.
