Books by Advisory Board members
Biotech/Medical
- Brave New World? A defense of paradise-engineering
- by David Pearce – 2007
- The Future of Digital Surveillance and Healthcare: A Conversation with World Leading Philosopher Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
- by Dinorah Delfin – 2020
- Getting Ready for the Coming Bio-Economy: An Advance Survey with Ten Practical Tips
- by Scott Borg – 2000
- Human Body Version 2.0
- by Ray Kurzweil – 2003
- Lifeboat Foundation Virgin Atlantic Report
- by Lifeboat Foundation Scientific Advisory Board – 2005
- Neurotechnology and Society (2010–2060)
- by Zack Lynch – 2004
- The Ultimate Right to Life Debate: Synthetic biologists know the meaning of life, but do they know the meaning of synthetic biology?
- by Alan H. Goldstein – 2006
- Utopian Surgery: Early Arguments Against Anesthesia in Surgery, Dentistry, and Childbirth
- by David Pearce – 2006
- Want to Live Forever?
- by David Brin – 2002
- What is Human Enhancement, and why is it good for our society?
- by Guido Putignano – 2020
- With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: Time for the synthetic biology community to acknowledge three responsibilities
- by Roger Brent – 2006
Book Excerpts/Reviews
- A Beginner’s Guide to Immortality
- by Clifford A. Pickover – 2007
- The Age of Virtuous Machines
- by J. Storrs “Josh” Hall – 2007
- It Takes a Giant Cosmos to Create Life and Mind
- by James Gardner – 2007
- Kinds of Minds
- by J. Storrs “Josh” Hall – 2007
- The Survival Imperative: Using Space to Protect Earth : Chapter Eight
- by William E. Burrows – 2006
- Technology’s Promise: a Book Review
- by José Luis Cordeiro – 2009
Cosmology
Ethics
Existential Risks
- The Case for Survival Colonies: Soliciting Colonists
- by Willard Wells – 2013
- Classifying Extinction Risks
- by Michael Anissimov – 2007
- The End of the World and Architecture
- (PDF) by Michael A. Richards – 2010
- Let’s Lift the Earth!
- by David Brin – 2014
- On the Principles of Economics & Evolution: A Survival Guide for the Inhabitants of Small Islands, Including the Inhabitants of the Small Island of Earth
- (5 MB PDF) by Matt Funk – 2010. The 88 MB PDF digital supplement for this report is also online.
- Preparing for our Posthuman Future of Artificial Intelligence
- by David Brin – 2016
- The Principles of Economics & Evolution II: In Search of Evolutionarily Stable Banking, Finance, & Alternative Investment Strategy
- (14.5 MB PDF) by Matt Funk – 2010 Condensed version
- The Principles of Economics & Evolution III: In Search of Evolutionarily Stable Central Banking & Alternative Investment Strategies
- (0.4 MB PDF) by Matt Funk – 2010
- Risking Human Extinction
- by John Leslie – 1999
- SHOUTING AT THE COSMOS …Or How SETI has Taken a Worrisome Turn Into Dangerous Territory
- by David Brin – 2006 (last update 2008)
- Warning Signs for Tomorrow
- by Anders Sandberg – 2006
- Welcome to the Age of Weapons Containment
- by George Dvorsky – 2006
Futurism
- 10 Futuristic Materials
- by Michael Anissimov – 2008
- 23 Things Science Can Tell Us about Life, the Universe, and Everything
- by Daniel D. Brown – 2008
- A Future of Fewer Words?: Five Trends Shaping the Future of Language
- by Lawrence Baines – 2012
- A New Renaissance
- by José Luis Cordeiro – 2020
- Big Chronology of Life on Earth
- by José Luis Cordeiro – 2019 (last update 2025)
- Brain-Computer Interfaces for Manipulating Dreams
- by Michael Anissimov – 2008
- The Great Matrix of Big History
- by William Grasse – 2017
- Immortalist Utilitarianism
- by Michael Anissimov – 2004
- Interstellar Travel and Post-Humans
- by Martin Rees – 2017
- Law of Accelerating Returns
- by Ray Kurzweil – 2001
- Loosening the Linkages Between Language and the Land
- by Lawrence Baines and Gul Nahar – 2018
- Must-know terms for the 21st Century Intellectual
- by George Dvorsky – 2007
- On Tech Unemployment and the Labor vs Capital Balance of Power
- by Nikola Danaylov – 2018
- Our Future is being formed around one simple question, “what’s missing?”
- by Thomas Frey – 2020
- The Principles of Extropy: A Quarter Century Later
- by José Luis Cordeiro – 2013
- Singularities and Nightmares: Extremes of Optimism and Pessimism About the Human Future
- by David Brin – 2006
- Sir Arthur C. Clarke in 3001: Don’t Panic!
- by José Luis Cordeiro – 2008
- The Strategic Brain
- by Natasha Vita-More – 2005
- Technological Evolution
- by José Luis Cordeiro – 2006
- Top Ten Cybernetic Upgrades Everyone Will Want
- by Michael Anissimov – 2007
- Top Ten Transhumanist Technologies
- by Michael Anissimov – 2007
- Warning Signs for Tomorrow
- by Anders Sandberg – 2006
- What are the Benefits of Mind Uploading?
- by Michael Anissimov – 2009
- What is Human Enhancement, and why is it good for our society?
- by Guido Putignano – 2020
Internet
- Minding the Planet: The Meaning and Future of the Semantic Web
- by Nova Spivack – 2006
- Web 3.0: The Third Generation Web is Coming
- by Nova Spivack – 2007
Nanotechnology
- Considering Military and Ethical Implications of Nanofactory Level Nanotechnology
- by Brian Wang – 2006
- Corporate Cornucopia: Examining the Special Implications of Commercial MNT Development
- by Michael Vassar – 2006
- First-Stage Nanoproducts and Nanoweaponry
- by Michael Anissimov – 2006
- Flexible Automated Manufacturing
- by Michael Vassar – 2004
- I, Nanobot
- by Alan H. Goldstein – 2006
- Molecular Manufacturing: Too Dangerous to Allow?
- by Robert A. Freitas Jr. – 2006
- The (Needed) New Economics of Abundance
- by Steve Burgess – 2006
- Some Limits to Global Ecophagy by Biovorous Nanoreplicators, with Public Policy Recommendations
- by Robert A. Freitas Jr. – 2000
New Money Systems
- Bitcoin for Beginners
- (PDF) by Clayton Rawlings – 2019
Nuclear
Robotics/AI
- The Age of Virtuous Machines
- by J. Storrs “Josh” Hall – 2007
- AI and Sci-Fi: My, Oh, My!
- by Robert J. Sawyer – 2002
- AI Meets the Metaverse: Teachable AI Agents Living in Virtual Worlds
- by Ben Goertzel – 2007
- Can a machine be conscious? How?
- by Stevan Harnad – 2003
- Interstellar Travel and Post-Humans
- by Martin Rees – 2017
- Jurisprudence of Artilects: Blueprint for a Synthetic Citizen
- by Frank W. Sudia, JD – 2004
- Kinds of Minds
- by J. Storrs “Josh” Hall – 2007
- Preparing for our Posthuman Future of Artificial Intelligence
- by David Brin – 2016
- Rise of the Machines: How, When and Consequences of Artificial General Intelligence
- by Richard J. Terrile – 2019
- What are the Benefits of Mind Uploading?
- by Michael Anissimov – 2009
Space Settlement
- Achieving Human Commitment to Space Colonization: Is Fear the Answer?
- by Sylvia Engdahl – 2006 (last update 2019)
- Apollo 11 50th Anniversary
- by Martin Rees – 2019
- Breaking Out from Earth’s Shell
- by Sylvia Engdahl – 2019
- Building Musk’s path to Mars
- by John K. Strickland, Jr. – 2022
- Let’s Lift the Earth!
- by David Brin – 2014
- Dipping a Toe into the Sea of Space: Are we Columbus or Erikson?
- by Gregory Benford – 2005
- Interstellar Travel and Post-Humans
- by Martin Rees – 2017
- Rethinking the Mars Terraforming Debate
- by John K. Strickland, Jr. – 2018
- Space: A Moral Vacuum?
- by Jeff Krukin – 2005
- The Survival Imperative: Using Space to Protect Earth : Chapter Eight
- by William E. Burrows – 2006
- To Food and Beyond: How Synthetic Biology will Revolutionize the Space Food Sector in the Future
- by Guido Putignano – 2021
- Why the Moon? Human survival!
- by Robert Shapiro – 2007
- The SLS: too expensive for exploration?
- by John Strickland – 2011
Sustainability
- The “Energularity”
- by José Luis Cordeiro – 2011
- Energy 2020: A Vision of the Future — A report retrieved from the year 2020 via a wormhole.
- by José Luis Cordeiro – 2006
- Screw Sustainability: The Age of the Tornado Tamers Busting the Bubble of Spaceship Earth
- by Howard Bloom – 2005
- To Food and Beyond: How Synthetic Biology will Revolutionize the Space Food Sector in the Future
- by Guido Putignano – 2021