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Lifeboat Foundation announces new existential-risk programs

KurzweilAI.net August 17, 2006

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The Lifeboat Foundation said today
it has launched four programs to
combat existential risks (threats to
human survival) -- BioShield,
InfoShield, NanoShield, and Space
Habitats -- and has announced 11
other planned programs, ranging from
AsteroidShield to AntimatterShield,
to "prevent antimatter-based
annihilation." Public participation
is...

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What do futurists really know?

MSNBC Aug 16, 2006

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The World Future Society's annual
meeting in Toronto featured keynote
speaker Ray Kurzweil, citing "an
impressive set of statistics about
technologic acceleration to support
his predictions, from the increasing
number of transistors on a chip to
the decreasing cost of sequencing a
single unit of DNA. When Kurzweil is
explaining it, a glorious...

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