Listen to 89 Future Now Welcome to our Thanksgiving week podcast. We are on the road to Santa Fe to visit family, but at the last minute we were able to create this week’s offerings. Exciting times ahead in exploring Saturn’s moon Titan with a car sized rotocopter, and back on Earth a new drone based on a raptor is flying! Cybertrucks have recalled…

Listen to 88 Future Now Podcast Read 88 Future Now Transcript Wouldn’t you know, Starship 6 takes off during our show, so naturally it’s in our lineup today! And heads up if Starship 6 successfully launches to space from its Texas pad.you are looking for an inexpensive DIY way of running your home on solar! Waymo is in the news with LA now being se…

87 Future Now Show Podcast - Robots! 87 Future Now Transcript As much as 2024 is the rise of AI, it looks like 2025 will be the year humanoid robots come into their own. robot learns by watching and assisting human surgeonOpen sourcing the hardware and sofware will certainly speed up the creation of these service robots; its interesting that the ac…

Listen to 86 Future Now Transcript of 86 Future Now Given where we are how could we not have our version of an election show? Well, we did include some election stories, but with results (from the future, of course!) And a talkative AI to help us with the finer points. And a story on how the astronauts on the ISS got their votes in on time, without…

Listen to 85 Future Now Taylor opens the show with a download on the latest M4 Apple products and why you want an M4 processor - Apple Intelligence. You want Apple Intelligence, don’t you? Then get your M4 machine today and you will be merging with the machine ahead of the pack. Think local intelligence, not simply cloud intelligence.. The famous s…

Listen to 84 Future Now Once again we have Gabriel Cianfrani in studio with us to comment on this week’s stories. We think you’ll enjoy her presence, especially her personal birthing stories. We also have the Larry and Mary AI’s commenting on a breaking story about a massive asteroid that contributed to life on Earth 3 billion years ago. This is al…

Listen to 83 Future Now Our special guest host, Gabrielle Cianfrani, joins us in studio, visiting from New Jersey as we delve into discussions on making memories, the rise of humanoid robots, new wind generator design, electric passenger our human hosts, Allan, Sun, and Gabrieleplanes, the amazing flight and landing of Starship 5, Mission to Europa…

Listen Now to 82 Future Now Show The most fun AI Hack of the week was fooling Google NotebookLM’s virtual talk show hosts into thinking that they were humans that discovered they were actually AI’s, and it was time to turn off. A hilarious comedic skit! Also fascinating this week is NASA’s discovery that large thunderstorms are emitting gamma radia…

Listen Now to 81 Future Now Podcast Show Transcript When AI starts to mimic what we do as podcast hosts, we listen…and have some fun with it. In this episode, meet “Larry and Mary,” virtual talk show hosts who offer you information in a dynamic 2 person, male/femaile show host format, based on documents we feed them, in this case, our last week’s p…

Listen Now to 80 Future Now Show Transcript Happy Autumn everyone, my favorite time of year! I may be a little biased, as my birthday is coming up, but hey, the cooler weather sparks me, what can I say? My wifey poo, Sun, aka Mrs. Future reports in from Ireland and the Equinox she celebrated there at an ancient megalithic site, Bobby Wilder has exc…

Listen Now to 79 Future Now Transcript of 79 Future Now We are all in different locations for our latest podcast, Mrs. Future (aka Sun or Marian) on the El Camino trail in Spain, Bobby Wilder in San Francisco, and myself at our home studio in Boulder Creek. We catch up with Sun Sun Marian (Mrs. Future) on the El Camino in Spainon her pilgrimmage, w…

Listen Now to 78 Future Now This week we hear from my dear wife and co-partner of this podcast, Sun (aka Mrs. Future) from Portugal, where she is traveling with her sister on a family adventure. Taylor Barcroft then brings us up-to-date on all the latest and greatest offerings from Apple Computer, particularly the iPhone 16 models and the Series 10…

Listen Now to 77 Live from Maui This week we broadcast from Maui with a wonderful selection of friends who clue us in to what’s happening in this Hawaiian paradise. It’s been a year since the horrible Lahaina fires and recovery has been slow and agonizing to many. Ed Ellsworth gives us an update on that situation. To help recover the Aloha spirit o…

Listen to 76 Future Now Show We are briefly back in town, before heading to Maui for a couple of weeks, enough to produce one local show! If the molecule DDL-920 works for humans as well as mice, beyond slowing cognitive decline it may actually restore memories! I you are excited about creating imagery with AI, consider the new Grok-2 image generat…

Listen Now to The Best of the Futures - Interview Excerpts 1.0 For this podcast we are excited to share with you some of our favorite people we have met over the 15 years of our show, audio clips from our Media Time Machine - Serendipitous choices for this podcast include Pharmacist Ben Fuchs, Psychic story maven Penny Kelly, Physicist Nick Herbert…

Listen Now to Dr. Jonathan Trent Transcript Interestingly Dr. Trent had his start in oceanography and the study of small water-based lifeforms at UCSC back in the 1970’s as an undergraduate. Later at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and a post doc in Germany at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry he became one of the world’s experts in how…

Listen to Future News #75 Now that US national politics is heating up, so are the cheap fakes being made of the candidates, making them heroic, silly, smart, stupid, you name it. Just for cheap fakes and poltitics and off you go. We discuss this a bit and look at what can be done. And since are politics up, Bobby reveals to us his encounters with K…

Listen to 74 Future Now Podcast Transcript This is the weeked following former president Trump’s assasination attempt, so we start with a few comments on that scene. It was also sad that Space X lost a full payload of Starlink satellites..On a lighter front, we look at how in the ever loving world we could have an AI beauty contest and who won. Bob…

Listen Now to 73 Future Now Podcast Transcript This is our first broadcast from the new Santa Cruz Voice studio in downtown Santa Cruz! We discuss the martian habitat sim and its recently released inhabitants at NASA, the saintly geek, and a discussion of a current court case involving our friend Monica McGuire and her Soverign defense in case of t…

Listen Now to Katrina Vaillancourt on QAnon Rabbit Hole Transcript A professional mediator trained in Nonviolent Communication and a dedicated Bernie Sanders supporter, she found herself unexpectedly spiraling down the rabbit hole of QAnon, triggered by watching the “Fall of the Cabal” series, about how a cabal of Satanic cannibalistic child molest…

Listen Now to 72 Future Now Podcast Transcript Recognizing World UFO Day is a fun part of this week’s show, exploring some of the more interesting recent cases recently in the field..Did you know there were 138 UFO sightings in California alone in the last 6 months? And in our explorations of space, the Polaris Dawn Mission is about to take place, …

Listen Now to 71 Future Now Podcast Transcript of show Something for everybody this week, from Mars popcorn, Assange’s freedom, a great report on what was happening at the Augmented World Expo in Long Beach with Nick Venden and Greg Panos, who blew away the conference by an introduction to his virutal immortality talk made by his deceased mother in…

Listen to 70 Future Now Transcript of 70 Future Now It’s Summertime and living is fun, unless you are on a deep space mission. Turns out our kidneys are particularly sensitive to radiation in space, failing after only two years..oh no, what now? Any solutions? We think so! Harvard Cryptoterrestrial GradAnd finally, top academics are suggesting to t…

Listen to 69 Future Now Podcast Transcript Big announcements from Apple at this week’s World Wide Developer’s Conference, and we have our very own Apple analyst, Taylor Barcroft, to cover the latest and greatest, and Bobby Wilder to discuss just what is “Apple Intelligence.” We think it is particularly exciting that developers will be able to emplo…