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Lifeboat News #68

#68

Lifeboat News

This issue published on 03/01/08. Copyright 2008 Lifeboat Foundation. All Rights Reserved.

WorldFuture 2008 Lineup

Lawrence A. Baines, Raj Bawa, Peter C. Bishop, Dennis M. Bushnell, Josh Calder, José Luis Cordeiro, Yasmin Dada-Jones, Jerry Glenn, Jay Herson, Michael Jackson, Shun-jie Ji, Amy Oberg, John L. Petersen, Carrie Rathsack, Karlin Sloan, Mike Treder, Verne Wheelwright, and Mariann Zanardo will be speaking at "WorldFuture 2008: Seeing the Future Through New Eyes" at the Hilton Washington, Washington, D.C., from July 26 to July 28, 2008.
 
Learn more at http://lifeboat.com/upcoming

Blog

Athena Andreadis joins our blog team with her first post at http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=132
 
Phil Bowermaster joins our blog team with his first post at http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=127

Business Board

Michael Jackson joins our Business Board which he also founded. Mike is a Founder Member and Chairman of Shaping Tomorrow. He also advises businesses on dramatically improving their competitiveness through pioneering work on practical Sustainable Business Strategies. Clients include a number of blue-chip, international and national companies, and small to medium sized UK businesses.
 
You can learn about Mike at http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.michael.jackson

Google

Alberto Conti, one of the creators of the GoogleSky concept, joins our Cosmology Board. Learn about him at http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.alberto.conti

NASA

Dennis M. Bushnell, Chief Scientist, NASA Langley Research Center, joins our Futurists Board and Space Settlement Board.
 
Dennis is responsible for technical oversight and advanced program formulation with emphasis in the areas of atmospheric sciences and structures, materials, acoustics, flight electronics/control/software, instruments, aerodynamics, aerothermodynamics, hypersonic airbreathing propulsion, computational sciences, and systems optimization for aeronautics, spacecraft, exploration, and space access.
 
Learn about Dennis at http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.dennis.m.bushnell

Frederik Pohl

Frederik Pohl joins our Futurists Board. He is a three time Nebula winner, including the "Grand Master" Nebula for lifetime contributions to the field, and a six time Hugo winner. He is the only person ever to have won the Hugo both as writer and as editor.
 
Learn about Frederik at http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.frederik.pohl

Interviews

Read the Wired interview of Brian Cox: "Rock Star-Turned-Physicist Trades Keyboard for Atom Smasher" at http://www.wired.com/science/discoverie.../ted_cox
 
Brian is on our Particle Physics Board.
 
Listen to our Philippe Van Nedervelde on "The Future and You" at http://thefutureandyou.libsyn.com/index...d=311470

Book

Buy "Living Like Ed: A Guide to the Eco-Friendly Life" by Ed Begley Jr. at http://lifeboat.com/ed.cgi
 
Ed is on our Sustainability Board.

Greek Support

Thanks to Athena Andreadis, we now have a Greek version of our about page at http://lifeboat.com/ex/about.greek

Video

Watch the video "Nokia Morph Concept" at http://lifeboat.com/ex/videos#nokia_morph_concept
 
Morph is a concept demonstrating some of the possibilities nanotechnologies might enable in future communication devices. Morph can sense its environment, is energy harvesting, and self cleaning. Morph is a flexible two-piece device that can adapt its shape to different use modes. Nanotechnology enables us to have adaptive materials yet rigid forms on demand.
 
It is also featured in the MoMA online exhibition "Design and the Elastic Mind". It has been a collaboration project of the Nokia Research Center and Cambridge Nanoscience Center.

[email protected] Team

Robert Robinson joins our [email protected] team at http://lifeboat.com/ex/rosetta.home
 
Donate the unused CPU cycles on your computer(s) to help scientists to determine the 3-dimensional shapes of proteins in research that may ultimately lead to finding cures for some major human diseases. By running the Rosetta program on your computer while you don't need it you will help speed up and extend research in ways scientists couldn't possibly attempt without your help. You will also be helping efforts at designing new proteins to fight diseases such as HIV, Malaria, Cancer, and Alzheimer's.

Growing Membership

Long-time Lifeboat Foundation supporter Otto Valtakoski provides donations to three separate Lifeboat programs: AIShield Fund, A-PRIZE, and NanoShield Fund. You can see these programs at https://lifeboat.com/ex/ai.shield.fund, https://lifeboat.com/ex/a-prize, and https://lifeboat.com/ex/nano.shield.fund.
 
Here are some of the recent donations/pledges we have received since the last newsletter:
 
Humberto Castaneda: $200, Sergio M.L. Tarrero: $170, Colin Kline (spelling correction): $120, Michael Anissimov: $85, Eric Bauswell: $85, Michael Dickey: $85, Chris Haley: $85, Jason Gaverick Matheny: $85, Philippe Van Nedervelde: $85, Kenneth P. Weiss: $85, Anonymous: $30, Otto Valtakoski: $30, C M Anderson: $25, Vincent A. Cate: $25, Adam Dobrin: $25, Rick Hubbard: $25, Matthew L. McGuirl: $25, Peter Murray: $25, Robert Hunt Robinson: $25, James William Taylor: $25, Mark A. Walker: $25, Adrian-Bodgan Morut (Adi): $20, Stephen Fleming: $10, Joshua Fox: $10, Christopher Dilkus: $10, Sylvia Engdahl: $10, Joseph P. Jackson III: $10, Sheridan Layman: $10, Glenn A. Miller: $10, Sarah Jane Pell: $10, John N. Philipps (Jack): $10, Pennye Shaw: $10, Kaj Sotala: $10, Michael Vassar: $10, and Thoughtware.TV: $5.
 
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.