The Future And You--Sept 9, 2015

Topic: Fifty Years of SETI--Where is Everyone? Our speaker is Robert Buetner, the award-winning author of more than ten novels, a former intelligence officer, paleontologist, and lawyer. [News Item] Lifespan.io is a new crowdfunding platform dedicated specifically to research aimed at extending healthy human lifespan. Through centralizing such crowdfunding efforts, it can help create a powerful grassroots movement to overcome age-related disease—both by building a community of passionate donors who can fund research directly and by providing an accessible gateway for the public at large to be introduce to the idea of life extension. The first campaign, from the SENS Research Foundation, is already over 50% funded, and more projects will be launching soon. Please visit www.Lifespan.io to join the cause, and help #CrowdfundTheCure for aging. Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the September 9, 2015 episode of The Future And You. [Running time: 37 minutes] This discussion was recorded in front of an audience at the science fiction and fantasy convention LibertyCon in Chattanooga TN, on June 27, 2015. Stephen Euin Cobb has interviewed over 350 people for his work as an author, futurist, magazine writer, ghostwriter, and award-winning podcaster. A contributing editor for Space and Time Magazine; he has also been a regular contributor for Robot, H+, Grim Couture and Port Iris magazines; and he spent three years as a columnist and contributing editor for Jim Baen's Universe Magazine. For the last nine years he has produced a weekly podcast, The Future And You, which explores (through interviews, panel discussions and commentary) all the ways the future will be different from today. He is an artist, essayist, game designer, transhumanist, and is on the Advisory Board of The Lifeboat Foundation. Stephen is the author of an ebook about the future entitled: Indistinguishable from Magic: Predictions of Revolutionary Future Science.