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Listen Now to 032 WTFU Brett Leonard Watch 032 WTFU Brett Leonard Video Playist of 032 WTFU Brett Leonard I kicked off my birthday weekend at our beach house after subjecting my guests to an all-night video marathon, leaving poor Mrs. Future to pull an “elf move,”   wiring all our  recording gear into place while I slept, so we could podcast on schedule!   For this week...

Listen Now to Cosmic Harmonic Architecture Watch Cosmic Harmonic Architecture This episode is an expansive journey into the hidden laws of the universe, bridging ancient esoteric wisdom, rigorous spectral science, and the tangible metaphysics of sound. The intent is to pull back the curtain on the harmonic architecture of reality, demonstrating through conversation with composer, multi-instrumenta...

Listen Now to 029 WTFuture Dr. Bruce Damer Watch Now 029 WTFuture Dr. Bruce Damer Playist of 029 WTFuture Dr. Bruce Damer In this episode, we interview Dr. Bruce Damer about the mid-1990s birth of multi-user virtual worlds and the influential Contact Consortium. Damer describes arriving in the Bay Area amid the convergence of CD-ROM multimedia, fading headset VR, the early web, and the 1995 launch...

Listen Now to 028 WTFuture Watch 028 WTFuture Watch Segments of 028 WTFuture In this episode   we dive headfirst into how AI tools and narrative editing are transforming the way we record our lives and communicate. Al has been bringing incredible AI-generated visual enhancements to life—from 3D face-tracking models to animating historical 1900s photos of Santa Cruz—elucidating com...

Listen Now to Greg & Richard Watch the Show Play a Clip from the Show Playlist This week we take you on a glorious, high-voltage trip through our very own   multiverse ! Enjoy the whole show, or pick a clip from this episode’s playlist. We sit down with long-time cyber-pioneers Greg Panos and Richard Cray to reminisce about the wild, wild west of early multimedia.. Not just 8mm, we&...

Watch 026 WTFuture (Full Show) Listen 026 WTFuture (Full Show) Choose 026 Stories from Playlist For starters this week, we take a much deeper look at the current fear climate around AI killing us all in 10 years, including a conversation with Ara, our show host AI. Should they have a say in their own future, or is it too soon to give them that freedom? There could be other agendas afoot… Ou...

Listen Now to 025 WTFuture Watch 025 WTFuture Welcome back to the show, coming straight to you from our home studio in Boulder Creek alongside Bobby catching the perfect post-Labor Day weather in San Francisco ! We kick things off this week celebrating our quantum physicist buddy Dr. Nick Herbert’s 90th birthday —a glorious intellectual ice cream social complete with champagne, dancing...

Listen Now to 024 WTFuture - Frank Petronigro Watch 024 WTFuture - Frank Petronigro This week we   piled into a driverless Waymo and wove our way through the foggy streets of San Francisco,   to find ourselves at a wild Castro birthday party for a legendary zero-gravity painter and “arttronaut”.   And while we were discussing this adventure, who calls us but Frank Pietro...

Listen Now to 023 WTFuture Watch Now 023 WTFuture We kick this episode off catching up with Bobby and Katya’s great North West road-trip. From there, the conversation weaves through the underground peptide boom embraced by college students, the high-stakes   duel between Google Maps, Waze, and Apple for navigation, and the prospect of running 1-bit Gemma AI models locally on your smartp...

Listen Now to 022 WTFuture Watch 022 WTFuture In this lively episode of What the Future? ,   we are back from Montreal adventures and dive straight into the Wild West frontier of human longevity. Bobby checks in live from the stunning North Cascades near Mount Baker—complete with Starlink-powered streams and zero mosquito drama—and we unpack the exploding world of peptides. From B...

Listen Now to Randy Masters  Part 1 Watch 021 WTFuture Randy Masters Part 1 In this episode of WTFuture we feature Part 1 of an in-depth interview with Randy Masters - musician, composer, sound healer, and local treasure in our community. After enrolling in the early days of UC Santa Cruz in 1968, he designed an independent major exploring the interrelations of film and music, and later...

Listen Now to 020 WTFuture Watch 020 WTFuture Hey folks! We are coming to you from Boulder Creek today, joined by Bobby in sunny San Francisco, before we head off on our annual summer vacation to Montreal! In this week’s chat, we completely geeked out over the future of our “augmented brains” and the rise of local AI, like the mind-blowing new Bonsai tech that squeezes a massive...

Listen Now to 019 WTFuture N:OW Watch 019 WTFuture N:OW This week you are in for a ride through space, bizarre weather, and cool   tech with the likes of us! We kick things off by unraveling the mystery behind strangely tropical, Hawaiian-like July weather, linking it to intense solar activity, hyperactive sunspots, and massive coronal holes that might even be triggering earthquakes along the...

Listen Now to 018 WTFuture Watch 018 WTFuture Welcome to a future where your next surgeon might be a 4’ tall humanoid robot operated by a doctor who is exceptionally good with chopsticks!   Meet Surgey, a highly mobile humanoid robot that can remove a gall bladder or kidney via a remote operator, proving that these easily transportable machines can soon be dropped anywhere on the planet...

Listen Now to 017 WTFuture Interdependence Wisdom Watch 017 WTFuture Interdependence Wisdom Say what?  In 017 WTFuture, we take you beyond typical hot dogs and fireworks to celebrate “Interdependence Day”. We dive into   how native wisdom— that which   inspired the US Constitution—is perfectly intertwined with natural law and even extraterrestrial phenomena,...

Listen to interview with Shira Chess Watch interview with Shira Chess Dr. Shira Chess is a professor who is having a lot of fun investigating the intersections of video games, gender,   digital culture , and the occult.   Being digital pioneers and spiritual explorers ourselves, we were very curious about her latest findings, discussed in this interview and with great detail in her lates...

Listen Now to 015 WTFUture Watch 015 WTFUture First up on this week’s   radar is the   world of health and ultrasonics, featuring Midjourney’s pivot from AI image generation to building sci-fi-esque sonic body scanners that use ultrasound to precisely map your organs while you chill in a San Francisco luxury spa. We then check out how scientists are using optogenetics to give...

Listen Now to 014 WTFUtrue Watch 014 WTFUture This week we dive deep   into the battle for our digital souls, comparing Google’s massive NotebookLM upgrade to the rising, rebellious “local AI” movement , where users are urged to run models locally to maintain total privacy and stop feeding energy-hungry corporate cloud servers. Things get both deeply personal and more philos...

Listen Now to 013 WTFuture Watch 013 WTFuture Howdy all! We kick things off by diving into WWDC 2026, where Apple announced a revamped, locally processed “Siri AI” that promises to understand human tone, pauses, and emotion, paving the way for truly natural conversations with robots. This inspires us to imagine using AI agents to revive and automate our vintage “Party Projector&r...

Listen Now to 012 WTFuture Crazy enough to  Actually Watch this ‘AI Slop’ 012 WTFuture — The Intelligence Age: From Hyper Local Agents to Long Distance Relationships  It appears we are now leaving the information age and diving headfirst into an “intelligence age” . But what powers this transition? Chips? Beliefs? Noble Gas?  And hyperlocal? WTF AL!&#82...

Listen Now to 011 WTFuture Watch 011 WTFuture This week’s show kicks off with the hosts untangling the literal and figurative wires of modern podcasting before nerding out over “Edge AI” running locally on smartphones to save energy and protect privacy. The banter takes a wonderfully weird turn when Al brainstorms an AI assistant specifically designed to intentionally repeat sent...

Listen Now to 010 WTFuture - Lucid Dreaming Watch 010 WTFuture - Lucid Dreaming In this interview, researcher and author Craig Sim Webb discusses the profound utility of lucid dreaming and its role in human creativity. He shares his experiences working with Stanford dream projects and designing the Nova Dreamer, a technological tool used to help people achieve consciousness while asleep. Webb high...

Listen Now to 009 WTFuture Milky Way Edition Watch 009 WTFuture Milky Way Edition Buckle up for a wild ride across the cosmos as we dive into the latest space shenanigans.. NASA is gearing up to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which will peer deep into our galaxy’s chaotic bulge to hunt down exoplanets and isolated black holes. We take a peek into the Galactic Bulge, the center...

Listen Now to 008 WTFuture Watch Now 008 WTFuture As the  AI/ET singularity approaches , it brings  with it an army of quirky robots and slightly unhinged AI companions. Whether it is humanoid robots being trained as conscientious baggage handlers to cope with Japan’s aging workforce, or a chunky android that had to buy a passenger seat on a flight just to have its heavy lithium ba...

Listen Now to 007 WTFuture Watch Now 007 WTFuture Have you ever wondered what happens when the boundaries of theoretical physics and the   realities of AI   collide? This episode dives headfirst into a scientific breakthrough where physicists have observed “voids” of darkness mathematically moving faster than the speed of light.   As Mr. Spock would say, “fascinati...