2021 Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award
The 2021 Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award has been given to Martine
Rothblatt who has devoted her life to moving humanity towards a positive
future.
Martine was the 500th person to join our Advisory Board, has contributed
to our blog, and has generously supported the Lifeboat Foundation’s goal
of “Safeguarding Humanity”.
Martine is cofounder of the Terasem Movement Foundation. Their mission
is to promote the geoethical (world ethical) use of nanotechnology for
human life extension. They conduct educational programs and support
scientific research and development in the areas of cryonics,
biotechnology, and cyber consciousness. This foundation is related to
the Lifeboat Foundation programs LifePreserver and PersonalityPreserver
(which Martine contributed text to).
The Terasem Movement Foundation publishes “The Journal of Personal
Cyberconsciousness” and “The Journal of Geoethical Nanotechnology”. Learn about them at https://www.terasemjournals.org.
Learn more at
https://lifeboat.com/ex/press.releases....d.winner
Special Report
Read Special Report “What is Human Enhancement, and why is it good for
our society?” at https://lifeboat.com/ex/what.is.human.enhancement by
our Guido Putignano.
According to a study made by the European Parliament, the umbrella term
“Human Enhancement” refers to a wide range of existing, emerging, and
visionary technologies, including pharmaceutical products: neuro
implants that provide replacement sight or other artificial senses,
drugs that boost brain power, human germline engineering and existing
reproductive technologies, nutritional supplements, new brain
stimulation technologies to alleviate suffering and control mood, gene
doping in sports, cosmetic surgery, growth hormones for children of
short stature, anti-aging medication, and highly sophisticated
prosthetic applications that may provide specialized sensory input or
mechanical output.
All these technologies signal the blurring of boundaries between
restorative therapy and interventions that aim to bring about
improvements extending beyond such therapy.
News
Read “Young Italy Award to Guido Putignano from Taranto for studies of synthetic biology and regenerative medicine” at https://bari-ilquotidianoitaliano-com.t...r_pto=sc This article which was translated from the original Italian is about our Guido Putignano.
Lifeboat Strategy
By James Blodgett
Our human future could be very good or very bad. We might settle the
reachable universe, we might live forever, or we might go extinct. What
we do right now might make the difference.
Assisting in the development and implementation of save-the-world
strategy requires work, some of which is the personal work of developing
ideas, grokking them in fullness, adding to other’s ideas, and helping
to make them happen. (Grokking is important. We don’t want bad ideas.
Google this if necessary.) This quest has to fit in with one’s job
(unless you can get this quest as a job) and with necessary activities
of daily living. It took me a while to learn how.
I used to be good at procrastinating. Years ago I made a New Year’s
resolution: to average 17 hours each week on a list of essential tasks. It was a good thing that I specified that those hours would be an
average because I couldn’t do it every week. Sometimes other priorities
needed attention, but I was able to do a bit extra in subsequent weeks
and get back on track. I finished right down to the wire, working until
11 pm on December 31 to average that precise amount of time. I was proud
that I made it work, but it was not totally efficient. At times I filled
in with tasks that were not optimal but were the best things I could get
done at odd hours. Later I developed other systems that helped me get
things done.
Recently I have backslid into procrastination. In 2021, I made a better
New Year’s resolution: continuous improvement, a slogan of quality
control expert Edward Deming. Deming and this slogan were credited as a
major contribution to Japan’s rapid reconstruction and development of
industry after World War II. It enables a new resolution whenever I
think of it. It is working for me, and it can work for readers of this
article, especially since it is almost New Year’s Day.
Heroes of history are an existence proof that things can get done. This
month’s hero of history: Edward Deming.
Blog
Denisa Lepadatu joins our blog team with the article “Continuity. An
evolutionary perspective on art” at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/12/conti...lepadatu
Paul Moscarella joins our blog team with the post “UN talks adjourn
without deal to regulate ‘killer robots’” at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/12/un-ta...r-robots
Recent interesting blog posts include:
“5 Theories on Achieving Immortality as Scientists’ Say we Could Live
1,000 Years” by TJ Wass at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/10/5-the...00-years
“A blind man can perceive objects after a gene from algae was added to
his eye” by Shane Hinshaw at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/10/a-bli...-his-eye
“A philosopher of science explains how birds perceive time and space
differently than humans” by Genevieve Klien at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/12/a-phi...n-humans
“A wheeled car, quadruped and humanoid robot: Swiss-Mile Robot from ETH
Zurich” by Chima Wisdom Anayo at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/12/a-whe...h-zurich
“AI reveals structures of protein complexes” by Dan Kummer at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/11/ai-re...omplexes
“Anti-aging research uncovers new role for telomeres” by Nicholi Avery
at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/11/anti-...elomeres
“Are We Reaching the End of Human Death? w/ L. Parrish, J. Cordeiro, A.
de Grey and D. Wood” by Andrés Grases at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/10/are-w...d-d-wood
“Camera the size of a salt grain developed by scientists” by Shailesh
Prasad at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/12/camer...ientists
“China achieves crown of quantum supremacy” by Kelvin Dafiaghor at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/12/china...upremacy
“DARPA Is Working on A New Wireless Tech to Charge Drone Swarms
Seamlessly” by Gemechu Taye at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/12/darpa...amlessly
“DeepMind AI tackles one of chemistry’s most valuable techniques” by
Derick Lee at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/12/deepm...chniques
“Elon Musk Says SpaceX Is Going to Start Sucking CO2 Out of the Air and
Turning It Into Rocket Fuel” by Jeffrey L. Lee at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/12/elon-...ket-fuel
“Elon Musk Sells $1.1 Billion in Tesla Stock” by Raphael Ramos at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/11/elon-...la-stock
“Elon Musk slams billionaire tax: ‘Eventually, they run out of other
people’s money and then they come for you’” by Sean Brazell at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/10/elon-...-for-you
“Experimental depression treatment is nearly 80% effective in controlled
study” by Kevin Huang at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/11/exper...ed-study
“The First ‘Space Hotel’ Plans to Open in 2027” by Alberto Lao at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/12/the-f...-in-2027
“How Many Steps Per Day Is Associated With Reduced Risk Of Death For All
Causes?” by Mike Lustgarten at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/11/how-m...l-causes
“Is Quantum Tunneling Faster than Light? | Space Time | PBS Digital
Studios” by Jamal Simpson at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/11/is-qu...-studios
“It’s official by now: A Second Earth had been discovered just next door
(video)” by Claudio Soprano at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/11/its-o...or-video
“Look: NASA rover spots something remarkable above the clouds on Mars”
by Alberto Lao at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/12/look-...-on-mars
“Milky Way shakes: The cosmic collisions that made our galaxy” by
Genevieve Klien at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/12/milky...r-galaxy
“Modeling quantum spin liquids using machine learning” by Saúl Morales
Rodriguéz at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/11/model...learning
“The Moon has enough oxygen to sustain 8 billion people for 100,000
years” by Chima Wisdom Anayo at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/12/the-m...00-years
“North America’s first ever whale sanctuary to open 2023” by Poopeh
Morakkabati at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/11/north...pen-2023
“Physical Activity, Body Weight, And Diet Affect Resting Heart Rate And
Heart Rate Variability” by Mike Lustgarten at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/11/physi...iability
“The Real Reason Countries Are Going Back To The Moon” by Raphael Ramos
at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/10/the-r...the-moon
“Researchers discover bacteria that can eat toxic metals from water” by
Jason Blain at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/10/resea...om-water
“Russian Cosmonaut Makes Human Cartilage — With Magnets! — in Space”
by Alberto Lao at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/12/russi...in-space
“Scientists Found a Cradle of Life Under Antarctica” by Genevieve Klien
at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/12/scien...tarctica
“Scientists Have Made a Massless Structural Battery 10 Times Better Than
Before” by Jamal Simpson at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/10/scien...n-before
“Scientists may have just discovered the Moon’s large adult son” by
Atanas Atanasov at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/11/scien...dult-son
“Secretive Giant TSMC’s $100 Billion Plan To Fix The Chip Shortage” by
Derick Lee at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/10/secre...shortage
“Spain is banning fruit and veg wrapped in plastic in 2023” by Poopeh
Morakkabati at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/12/spain...-in-2023
“The spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 variant A.30 is heavily mutated and
evades vaccine-induced antibodies with high efficiency” by Omuterema
Akhahenda at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/10/the-s...ficiency
“Startup claims its new wearable can monitor blood sugar without
needles” by Jamal Simpson at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/10/start...-needles
“Strange radio waves emerge from the direction of the galactic center”
by Quinn Sena at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/10/stran...c-center
“This long-lasting hydrogel could be used to replace damaged human
tissues” by Heather Blevins at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/11/this-...-tissues
“This new laser technology can see inside our bodies like never before”
by Shailesh Prasad at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/12/this-...9f%a4%af
“Ultracompact camera is the size of a salt grain” by Future Timeline at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/11/ultra...lt-grain
“World’s first autonomous, all-electric container ship” by Future
Timeline at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/11/world...ner-ship
“‘World’s most advanced’ humanoid robot is unveiled in a UK lab” by
Carse Peel at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/12/world...a-uk-lab
“Your brain does not process information and it is not a computer” by
Claudio Soprano at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/11/your-...computer
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