Reports

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

It Takes a Giant Cosmos to Create Life and Mind: by James Gardner – 2007

Ethics

Preparing for our Posthuman Future of Artificial Intelligence: by David Brin – 2016

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

Crash Test Cities: Protecting Against Nuclear Blasts and Other Disasters: by Wil McCarthy – 2005

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

Transparency and Privacy

The Future of Digital Surveillance and Healthcare: A Conversation with World Leading Philosopher Stefan Lorenz Sorgner: by Dinorah Delfin – 2020