WorldFuture 2012 Urban Adventure By Lifeboat Foundation
Lifeboat Foundation invites you to a Speed-Networking Bull-Session
Improvisational Urban Adventure at WorldFuture 2012. You can learn
about WorldFuture 2012 at http://www.wfs.org/worldfuture-2012
This adventure will provide an opportunity to meet other Lifeboat
members on Saturday, July 28, from 5:30 to 6:30 pm. At this time, the
conference schedule shows a dinner break where you are on your own. (The
original schedule showed a dinner break from 5:30 to 7, but the
BetaLaunch introductions have been moved up.) We will offer the
opportunity to meet other Lifeboat members, eat, talk, and explore part
of Toronto. The event is improvisational because we will have to adapt
to real time conditions that cannot be anticipated.
We will meet up at 5:30 pm at Tim Horton's at 360 Bay Street, a
lunch-counter-level coffee shop in an office building a few blocks from
the conference hotel. James Blodgett, our air traffic controller for
the event, will give the first 30 Lifeboat members to arrive a $2 Tim
Horton's "Tim Card" that will let you buy a coffee, or supplement with
your own money to buy more than that, while waiting for others to
arrive. Tim Horton's will be mainly the meet-up point. A serendipitous
mixture of good conversation and empty seats in Tim Horton's might
motivate some to stay there, but we anticipate that others will drink
their coffee and go elsewhere. http://lifeboat.com/adventure.pdf
includes a Lifeboat name badge and icons you can attach to indicate
whether you need to get back for the BetaLaunch, how much you want to
spend for dinner, whether you would like to look at an interesting urban
park across the street from the conference hotel, and a topic in which
you are interested. Participants will be asked to choose up groups of
six or so based on these badges and on whatever other factors seem
relevant. These groups will proceed to independent adventures to be
chosen based on group preferences and on the immediate situation, i.e. the weather, whether Tim Horton's is crowded, what looks interesting
down the street, etc. Group dynamics are part of the adventure.
Participants will be on their own for the rest of the hour.
Those who can miss BetaLaunch and would like to go, at their own
expense, to an impressive and expensive restaurant that requires
reservations and takes time to appreciate the experience may RSVP to
James Blodgett,
State of the Arts 2012
The c3: Center for Conscious Creativity with the Electronic Music
Alliance and The Millennium Project presents the State of the Arts
Symposium on September 22, 2012 at Los Angeles Center Studios.
This year's State of the Arts 2012 symposium is designed to present a
unique perspective on the cutting edge trends in the arts and media and
their effect on education, society, and culture within the context of
immersive media. The goal of the symposium is to illicit dialogue around
the function of art and media in society and education, how emerging
communications and technologies are changing the arts and media, the
phenomena of the Electronic Music Dance culture and PLUR, what new forms
of art and media might emerge in the coming decade, new career
opportunities and the social impact and responsibility of creating with
conscious intent, from a cross-disciplinary perspective.
Learn more at http://www.c3so.com/soa-2012.html
Honorary Doctorate
Our Laszlo Kish has been elected to receive an honorary doctorate from
the University of Szeged.
Learn more at
http://engineering.tamu.edu/news/2012/0...f-szeged
World News
Read "Drone armed with miniature missile 'months' away..." at http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/07...le-soon/
Interesting Blog Posts
"Accelerating Evolution, Part 2: How new species come to be" by Daniel
Berleant at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2012/07/accele...me-to-be
"Per Aspera Ad Astra" by Brandon Seifert at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2012/07/per-as...ad-astra
Our Facebook group now has nearly 1,500 members. Join our discussions at https://www.facebook.com/groups/lifeboatfoundation
Growing Membership
Recent donations/pledges we have received since our last newsletter:
Fannie Mae: $1,000,
Michael Dickey: $85,
Sergio M.L. Tarrero: $85,
Philippe Van Nedervelde: $85,
Kenneth P. Weiss: $85,
Anonymous: $60,
Rick Hubbard: $25,
Matthew L. McGuirl: $25,
Frank W. Sudia: $25,
James Bracken: $10,
Rebecca R. Cooper: $10,
Thomas Dolphin: $10,
George Garrett: $10,
Charles Hawk: $10,
Tom Kerwick: $10,
Alexander Macrae: $10,
Aaron Mayzes: $10,
Philip Morehead: $10,
Roland Schiefer: $10,
Benjamin T. Solomon: $10,
Ryan Witt: $10,
eDIY Web Design: $5,
and Coco Veera Heath Armstrong: $1.
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.
