Global Catastrophic Risks
"Global Catastrophic Risks: Building a Resilient Civilization" will be
held November 14, 2008 at the Computer History Museum, Mountain View,
California. This conference will precede the futurist mega-gathering
Convergence 08, November 15-16 at the same venue. (If you attend Global
Catastrophic Risks, you get a $50 discount on Convergence 08.)
Our David Brin, Jamais Cascio, Bruce Damer, Alan H. Goldstein, J. Storrs
"Josh" Hall, Martin Hellman, Tad Hogg, Feng Hsu, James J. Hughes,
Kattesh V. Katti, Anders Sandberg, Mike Treder, and Eliezer Yudkowsky
will be participating. David Brin's upcoming novel "Existence"
fictionalizes many of these threats.
In addition to our many speakers, we will be presenting papers by our
Lawrence Baines, Joseph Coates, José Cordeiro, William E. Halal, Jacob
Haqq-Misra, John Leslie, Ian Pearson, Benny Peiser, Jeremy Ramsden,
Stephan A. Schwartz, Horst Simon, Charles Tandy, Alexei Valerievich
Turchin, and Win Wenger.
We are now only $600 away from our goal for this conference. Learn more
at https://lifeboat.com/ex/global.catastrophic.risks
Dan Stoicescu
Dan Stoicescu, second person in the world to buy the full sequence of
his own genetic code, donates $10,000 to the Lifeboat Foundation.
Dan earned his Ph.D. in medicinal chemistry and founded Sindan, an
oncology products company based in Romania that he ran for 15 years.
Learn more about Dan at http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.dan.stoicescu
Books
Read "Complexity and Security (NATO Science for Peace and Series)" coedited
by our Jeremy Ramsden. It is available at
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/158603...86038494
Enjoy "Gentleman Takes a Chance" by our Sarah Hoyt. This novel includes
a nice cover blurb from our Jerry Pournelle. It is available at
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/141655...16555935
RU Sirius
RU Sirius joins our Futurists Board. RU is a US writer, editor, talk
show host, musician, and cyberculture icon, best known as cofounder and
original Editor-In-Chief of Mondo 2000 Magazine from 1989-1993. He is
currently editor for the new transhumanist magazine, H+.
Learn more about RU at http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.ru.sirius
Growing Membership
Here are some of the recent donations/pledges we have received since
the last newsletter:
Dan Stoicescu: $10,000,
Chris Haley: $535,
David W. Wall: $500,
Martin Hellman: $250,
Humberto Castaneda: $200,
Michael Dickey: $185,
Sergio M.L. Tarrero: $170,
Rob Enderle: $100,
Michael Anissimov: $85,
Eric Bauswell: $85,
Jason Gaverick Matheny: $85,
Philippe Van Nedervelde: $85,
Kenneth P. Weiss: $85,
Anonymous: $80,
John Leslie: $50,
Jerry Searcy: $40,
Randy Murch: $50,
Eric Klien: $30,
C M Anderson: $25,
Adam Dobrin: $25,
Matt Duing: $25,
Rick Hubbard: $25,
Matthew L. McGuirl: $25,
Adrian-Bodgan Morut (Adi): $25,
Peter Murray: $25,
Ronald Amos: $10,
Alexander Braitberg: $10,
Stephen Fleming: $10,
Christopher Dilkus: $10,
Sylvia Engdahl: $10,
George Garrett: $10,
Joseph P. Jackson III: $10,
Sheridan Layman: $10,
Marcel Lossi: $10,
Glenn A. Miller: $10,
John N. Philipps (Jack): $10,
and Kaj Sotala: $10.
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.
