TransVision 2010
We have improved our TransVision 2010 lineup to include: Riccardo Campa,
Lincoln Cannon, Pier Luigi Capucci, Jamais Cascio, José Luis Cordeiro,
Aubrey de Grey, Robert M. Geraci, Ben Goertzel, Randal A. Koene, Miriam
Leis, Eugen Leitl, David Orban, David Pearce, Giulio Prisco, Marta
Rossi, Martine Rothblatt, Anders Sandberg, Jacopo Tagliabue, Fiorella
Terenzi, Mike Treder, and Natasha Vita-More.
TransVision 2010 will be held October 22-24 in Milan, Italy. This
conference will be a very intense, informative, scientific as well as an
entertaining tour de force in contemporary transhumanist thinking,
activism, science, technology & innovation and grand visionary dreams,
with over 40 talks distributed over three days.
Learn more at http://transvision2010.wordpress.com/
Humanity+ @ Caltech
Our Gregory Benford, Ryan Bethencourt, Suzanne Gildert, Ben Goertzel,
Randal Koene, Amy Li, Michael Rose, Michael Vassar, and Natasha
Vita-More will be speaking at "Humanity+ @ Caltech: Redefining Humanity
in the Era of Radical Technological Change". This conference is scheduled
for December 4-5 at the Beckman Institute at Caltech, Los Angeles,
California.
Learn more at http://humanityplus.org/conferences/
Rome's Next Science Festival
The theme for Rome's next science festival is "Science and the End of
the World". It will run from Thursday 20 January 2011 to Sunday 23. On
Saturday, our Willard Wells will give a slide presentation with the
tentative title "Calculation of Humanity's Survivability".
The event, as always, will take place in Renzo Piano's striking
Auditorium Parco della Musica. The fifth edition of the Festival, in
2009, on Scientific Research and Technology, was an extraordinary
success, with 45,000 members of the public attending it.
Learn more at
http://www.whatsonwhen.com/sisp/index.h...d=227593
Alex Lightman
Alex Lightman moves from being Executive Director of Humanity+ to
joining the Lifeboat Foundation Policy Board.
Alex is an author, entrepreneur, and futurist, who has made significant
contributions to the adoption of IPv6, served as CTO of the United
Nations' Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Organization, and has
authored several books on technology and society.
Read his bio at http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.alex.lightman
Edward James Olmos
Actor/director Edward James Olmos joins our Ethics Board and Media &
Arts Board. Eddie has done everything from playing Admiral Adama on
Battlestar Galactica to helping get communities cleaned up and rebuilt
after the 1992 Rodney King Riots in Los Angeles.
Read his bio at http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.edward.jame...ie.olmos
Educational Videos
David Brin and Kim Solez have created educational videos that you can view at http://lifeboat.com/ex/educational.videos
Reports
Read "The End of the World and Architecture" by Michael A. Richards at http://lifeboat.com/ex/reports#the_end_...he_world
Growing Membership
Recent donations/pledges we have received since the last newsletter:
Donald Maclean: $1,000,
Benjamin R. Hoffman: $255,
Michael Fleischmann: $150,
Anonymous: $140,
Rodney C. Hill: $120,
Paula J. Wilson: $120,
Michael Anissimov: $85,
Michael Dickey: $85,
Jason Gaverick Matheny: $85,
Sergio M.L. Tarrero: $85,
Philippe Van Nedervelde: $85,
Kenneth P. Weiss: $85,
Frank C. Adamek: $25,
Rick Hubbard: $25,
Matthew L. McGuirl: $25,
Rosie Tran: $20,
Ronald Amos: $10,
Rebecca R. Cooper: $10,
Christopher Dilkus: $10,
James Doerhing: $10,
Thomas Dolphin: $10,
Stephen Fleming: $10,
George Garrett: $10,
Charles Hawk: $10,
Miriam Leis: $10,
Aaron Mayzes: $10,
John N. Philipps (Jack): $10,
Lee Irwin Pringle: $10,
Rhonda Stevenson: $10,
and Maria Entraigues: $2.
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.
