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The Lifeboat Foundation is looking to hire an HQ Supervisor. This individual will be trained by our president in Reno, Nevada USA and will be in charge of everything from financial paperwork to keeping our HQ (headquarters) clean.
 
The two main qualities that are being looked for are: 1) follow through 2) and a strong interest in “Safeguarding Humanity”.


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Lifeboat Foundation has launched the world’s FIRST bitcoin endowment fund. Learn more!


Our LifeShield Bunkers program now enables you to participate in a local LifeShield Bunker.


The New York Times says "The Lifeboat Foundation is a nonprofit that seeks to protect people from some seriously catastrophic technology-related events. It funds research that would prevent a situation where technology has run amok, sort of like a pre-Fringe Unit."
 

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Latest News

Feb 10, 2018

MaRi Eagar, Chair of Digital Futures, joins our New Money Systems Board.

Feb 8, 2018

Sarah Konchitchki, Founder of Organic Concrete, joins our Sustainability Board.

Feb 8, 2018

Malcolm Ocean, Founder of Complice, joins our Human Trajectories Board.

Feb 8, 2018

Kimberly Forsythe, Founder of AKuaponics3D and Namaste Coin, joins our New Money Systems and Sustainability Board.

Feb 7, 2018

Angie Carrillo Reluz, Founder and CEO at Nextbiotics, joins our Business Board.

Feb 2, 2018

Read State of the Future version 19.1.

Jan 31, 2018

Read issue #185 of Lifeboat News!

Jan 30, 2018

The 2017 Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award has been given to Joseph N. Pelton in recognition of his lifelong dedication to advance the science of space safety and cosmic hazards prevention for the greater good of humankind.
 
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Jan 28, 2018

Dave Davies, Ambassador and Advisor at Iron & Earth, joins our Sustainability Board.

Jan 28, 2018

Melissa Mahler, General Counsel at The Mahler Group, joins our Futurists Board.

Jan 27, 2018

Anna Gutkina, author of Defusing the Cancer Bomb: How Cancer Saved My Life, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.

Jan 27, 2018

Johan Nygren joins our blog team with On the Origin of the Asteroid Belts and the Dwarf Planets: Towards a New Horizon in Astronomy.

Jan 26, 2018

Palak Madan, Research Analyst at Blackbox AI, joins our Robotics/AI Board.

Jan 26, 2018

Margaretta Colangelo, President of U1 Technologies, joins our Information Sciences Board.

Jan 26, 2018

Katsiaryna Archangorodskaja joins our Futurists Board. Katerina is President of HawkMatrix and Executive Advisor at Apphera.

Jan 25, 2018

Kristen Fortney, CEO at BioAge Labs, joins our Life Extension Board.

Jan 24, 2018

Ira Munn joins our Sustainability Board. Ira is developing 3D-printed electric vehicle kits using recycled PET plastic,

Jan 23, 2018

Age and Longevity in the 21st Century: Science, Policy, and Ethics will be held in New York City April 13–15. Our Didier Coeurnelle, Aubrey de Grey, and Ana Lita will be speaking/participating.
 
The deadline for abstract submission and registration has been extended to March 1. Learn more!

Jan 21, 2018

Traci Parker joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Traci is Director, Clinical Performance Management at UnitedHealth Group/OptumHealth.

Jan 21, 2018

Linda S. Leaney, CFO at Globcoin, joins our New Money Systems Board.

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Upcoming Events

The 2018 Undoing Aging Conference will be held March 15–17 in Berlin. This conference is focused on the cellular and molecular repair of age-related damage as the basis of therapies to bring aging under full medical control. It is a joint effort of the SENS Research Foundation and the Forever Healthy Foundation.
 
Our Aubrey de Grey, Kristen Fortney, Vera Gorbunova, and Jean Hébert will be speaking. Learn more!

Age and Longevity in the 21st Century: Science, Policy, and Ethics will be held in New York City April 13–15. Our Didier Coeurnelle, Aubrey de Grey, and Ana Lita will be speaking/participating.
 
The deadline for abstract submission and registration has been extended to March 1. Learn more!

The 34th Space Symposium will be held April 16–19 in Colorado Springs, Colorado USA. The Space Symposium is the premier global, commercial, civil, military, and emergent space conference. Our Masseh Tahiry, Dylan Taylor, and Rick Tumlinson will be speaking.
 
Learn more!

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Featured Stories

  • Priya Natarajan, who discovered there are limits to how large a black hole can grow, joins our Cosmology Board.

  • We now have a quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson on our Quotes page.

  • Our Space Habitats program works to build fail-safes against global existential risks by encouraging the spread of sustainable human civilization beyond Earth.

  • Alexander “Sasha” Kashlinsky, who has discovered “dark flow” which is causing hundreds of clusters of galaxies to stream en masse towards a region at the edge of the visible universe, joins our Cosmology Board. Sasha is Senior Staff Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

  • Our donor list is now sortable by amount, date, membership type, and name.

  • Read Warning Signs for Tomorrow by Anders Sandberg.

  • We have quotes by the late Michael Crichton on our Quotes page.

  • 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.

  • Buzz Aldrin joins our Space Settlement Board.
     
    On July 20, 1969, Buzz and Neil Armstrong made their historic Apollo 11 moonwalk, becoming the first two humans to set foot on another world. An estimated 600 million people — at that time, the world's largest television audience in history — witnessed this unprecedented heroic endeavor.

  • We now have a quote by Garry Kasparov on our Quotes page.

  • Having problems with suicide bombers, cyber hackers, and/or car bombs? Lifeboat Foundation has the solution! The Borg have joined our Counterterrorism Board! (This is worth a media mention!)

  • Help us design Ark I — our fallback position in case programs such as our BioShield and NanoShield fail.

  • Read 10 Futuristic Materials by Michael Anissimov.

  • We have College classroom tested coursework available which was developed by Gary Scott Danford, Ph.D., University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.

  • Ebrima Ceesay of Booz Allen Hamilton, who consults on information security, forensics, data mining, and machine learning, joins our Cybercrime/Malcode Board.