Listen to 95 Future Now podcast Transcript Well, this year is off to a roaring start with two Turo-rented electric vechicles leading the charge in both the New Orleans and Las Vegas terror events. Can you imagine pimping out your brand new Tesla Cybertruck to Turo for rental and being told that your vehicle was blown up by a Green Beret gone mad? R…

Listen to 94 Future Now Podcast Welcome to our last show of 2024, where we recall some of our fav stories of the year, from quantum computing to the James West Space Telescope findings, to microtubules and the seat of consciousness in the New Years with Hallelujah Blessing and Teresa Bellbrain. And let us not forget the “ISness” as defined by one o…

Listen to 93 Future Now Show We come to you this week from Aptos, CA, at our beach front home, touched by the ocean several times in the last week. We share a bit of our dramatic storm tale before delving into the story of Asteroid Rygu by Larry and Mary, our fav AI presenters, followed by our discussion of state-of-the-art humanoid robots of the p…

Listen to 92 Future Now Show What with all the noise about NJ Drones these days? Lots of crazy stories to share with you, doing our best to get to the bottom of this mystery. We also delve deeply this week in stories about synthetic biology, mirror organisms, cyber roaches, and rendering some plants stickerless, like roses, blackberries, and eggpla…

Listen Now to 91 Future Now Show Our last show from Santa Fe, NM we have lots of juicy air and space news this week, with a successful Spin Launch in the New Mexico desert to Joby’s Vertiports in Abu Dhabi. It looks like we’ll be having a young new NASA chief who also happens to be a billionaire (Jarod Issacson), there is speculation that Google’s …

Listen to 90 Future Now We are on the road in Santa Fe, NM for today’s show, with our science correspondent, Bobby Wilder, in San Francisco. We also have our AI hosts, “Larry and Mary,” discuss evidence of reverse biological aging, something they seem fascinated by, despite their non-biological origins. Our caller suggests that Larry may be based o…

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…