Lifeboat Foundation

Pete Rizzo — Coindesk

Libra announced it has raised $500,000 in a new seed round led by New York-based, seed-stage investment fund Liberty City Ventures.

The round, which coincides with the formal launch of its IRS-compliant accounting software LibraTax, also included participation from Raptor Ventures managing director James Pallotta and former Facebook software engineer and current BitGo CPO Ben Davenport.

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FUTURISM UPDATE (December 19, 2014) — Mr. Andres Agostini, Amazon, LinkedIn

WHITE SWAN BOOK: Quadriplegic shapes robot hand with her thoughts http://www.kurzweilai.net/quadriplegic-shapes-robot-hand-with-her-thoughts

WHITE SWAN BOOK: Organic matter detected on Mars http://www.kurzweilai.net/organic-matter-detected-on-mars

WHITE SWAN BOOK: Spider webs, leaves inspire touch-screen, solar-cell designs https://lnkd.in/eMCSsHH

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CORRECTLY FORESEEING? (LET US GET REAL, NOW!).

Let us stop the universal guesswork to make decisions by ignoramuses of supine ignorance, beginning with the elitist “…intellectuals…”, specially those postdoctorals from the Ivy-league and Oxbridge.

You do not make (throughput to output) decisions to be instituted in the past, but in the Continual Present, whose Continuum is hugely connected to the Future.

Through this article, in a subtle and even in a forceful and dramatic way, you will notice, if you pay careful attention, how the DOTS are connected in amazing ways. Here, to an ultimate degree, the ensuing Maxim is extremely observed: “… everything is related to everything else …”

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This archive file was compiled from audio and video documentation of a gathering of medical professionals, inventors & entrepreneurs, held at Singularity University in California, February 2013. The selected material gives a portrait of a time in which the field of health found itself at a crossroads between the mature medical institutions which had slowly evolved over hundreds of years, and a need to develop and integrate new, more flexible and scalable forms of care. About Future Med: http://futuremed2020.com/ About Singularity University: http://singularityu.org/ GPA on Facebook: on.fb.me/18NiF8z GPA on Twitter: twitter.com/GPA2030

Tom Sharkey — Coindesk

South African payments provider Wallettec has partnered with BitPay to integrate bitcoin with its point-of-sale (POS) payment platform.

The company worked with South African BitPay affiliate Bitcoin Payments to allow merchants using its platform to accept bitcoin payments via in-store POS devices.

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FUTURISM UPDATE (December 18, 2014) — Mr. Andres Agostini, Amazon, LinkedIn

FUTURE OBSERVATORY: Stanford to host 100-year study on artificial intelligence http://www.kurzweilai.net/stanford-to-host-100-year-study-on…telligence

WHITE SWAN BOOK: Stanford engineers invent radical ‘high-rise’ 3D chips http://www.kurzweilai.net/stanford-engineers-invent-radical-high-rise-3d-chips

WHITE SWAN BOOK: 5 reasons you should care about Russia’s falling ruble https://lnkd.in/ehGZnFb

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Written By: Jason Dorrier — Singularity Hub

Jason Silva calls technologies of media “engines of empathy.” They allow us to look through someone else’s eyes, experience someone else’s story—and develop a sense of compassion and understanding for them, and perhaps for others more generally.

But he says, while today cinema is the “the cathedral of communication technology,” looking to the future, there is another great medium looming—virtual reality.

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The Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award is annually bestowed upon a respected scientist or public figure who has warned of a future fraught with dangers and encouraged measures to prevent them.

The 2014 Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award has been given to Elon Musk in recognition of his warnings about artificial intelligence, his promotion of space exploration including the creation of self-sustaining space colonies, and his efforts to improve our environment with electric cars and to expand solar energy generation.

Elon is often likened to a real-life Tony Stark from Marvel’s Iron Man comics for his role in cutting-edge companies including SpaceX, a private space exploration company that holds the first private contracts from NASA for resupply of the International Space Station, and the electric car company Tesla Motors. Watch Elon in Iron Man 2!

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FUTURISM UPDATE (December 17, 2014) — Mr. Andres Agostini, Amazon, LinkedIn

ENGINEERING: US Navy Tests GhostSwimmer, an Autonomous Sub http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles…s-Sub.aspx

NEW YORK TIMES: As Robots Grow Smarter, American Workers Struggle to Keep Up https://lnkd.in/eg9Y8fV

ENGINEERING: Is A Quantum Internet on the Horizon? https://lnkd.in/ezBsRbM

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