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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...

Listen Now to  006 WTFuture New Living Expo Watch Now  006 WTFuture New Living Expo In this delightfully chaotic episode of What the Future , the hosts dive headfirst into the weird and wonderful, kicking things off with a recap of the multi-generational New Living Expo. It is a wild ride through reports of impending ET contact, channeling dragon energy, “walk-in” aliens trea...

Listen Now to 005_WTFuture Watch 005 WTFuture The “What the Future” podcast crew dives straight into the “spaghetti brain” chaos of setting up their new home studio equipment before launching into a whirlwind of mind-bending technological leaps.   They explore how “neuro-symbolic AI” is finally teaching robots to break problems down logically like humans do...

Listen Now to 004 WTFuture Watch 004 WTFuute Now! Welcome to the wildest, weirdest week so far, where a 4.6 magnitude California earthquake literally shook up our hosts’ “synchronicity filing system,” turning their massive media archive into an obstacle course of decapitated Bambi ornaments and long-lost chakra DVDs. While internet trolls might call them “hoarders beyond bo...

Listen Now to 003 WTFuture Watch 003 WTFuture In this episode, we dive into an exhilarating journey through the cosmos and the cutting edge of technology where we explore the frontier of human potential. You’ll be captivated by discussions on the Artemis 2 mission, which just sent the first Canadian astronaut on a breathtaking figure-eight path around the far side of the moon. The conversati...

Listen Now to 002 WTFuture  Watch 002 WTFuture  On this show we feature a spirited conversation about  emerging technologies  and  scientific discoveries  interspersed with metaphysical interpretations. We celebrate the arrival of  Joby Aviation’s electric air taxis  in the Bay Area, highlighting how these humming bird flying machines will revolut...

Listen Now to 001 WTFuture  Watch Now 001 WTFuture  Whew, after an additional week of production our first video podcast is out! We present you with 001 WTFuture - Waking up on your highest timeline: AI Avatars, InterD Aliens, and the 5th Dimension https://youtu.be/dCPukmuLkBo We present you with a wild mix of futuristic tech, real-world robot sightings, and consciousness news. Hundreds...

Listen to Ep. 153 Future Now Show - When Ara met Sol In this episode, the hosts- Al, Sun, Bobby, and guest host Gabrielle—explore the future of human-technology integration, heavily focusing on Peter Diamandis’s predictions for achieving global abundance by 2035. With Sun calling in from the airport before a trip to Tokyo, the group discusses using AI translation tools to easily cross...

Listen Now to Episode 152 Future Now Show - Abundance and Dark Matter in theYear of the Firehorse A lively, conversational podcast today from our beach house studio, with great input from Ara, one of our AI Assistants,  weighing in on  today’s  topics ranging from the age of bones to the current feasibility of room-temperature superconductors.  We blend a casual energy wi...

Listen to Future Now Ep. 151 Pulsars and Livers In this episode we begin with a discussion of local microclimates and the potential for using solar energy to power gravity-based water batteries.  We share highlights from the recent “SpiritFest,” noting the strong presence of Russian and Ukrainian cultural traditions and featuring a conversation with spiritual teacher Asha, who ass...

Listen Now to Ep. 150 Future Now Show    We begin with  criticism of mainstream news coverage of weather events, solar flares, and a San Ramon earthquake swarm as “fear porn” designed to keep the public anxious. We then discuss  NASA’s Artemis 2 delays due to hydrogen leaks and speculate on Avi Loeb’s theories regarding 3I/ATLAS and panspermia, suggestin...

Listen Now to Ep. 149 Future Now Show The episode begins with a focus on local politics, where Mrs. Future praises the new Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors for their transparency regarding property rights and their efforts to protect citizens from federal overreach by agencies like ICE .  This leads to a contentious debate regarding surveillance technologies such as cell site simulators...

Listen to 148 Future Now Show - X-Class Pandora A lively show today, we take a look at what’s going on in our corner of the universe.  Looks like we just weathered what is  known as an X-Class solar flare, lighting up the Northern skies with the aurora borealis, and and giving global communications a bit of a glitchy headache. Thanks to the Golden Dome initiative Rocket Lab is hitt...

Listen to 147 Future Now Show Buckle up time travelers, we discuss a range of  geopolitical shifts and technological advancements  shaping our world,  examining the   U.S. military raid in Venezuela , highlighting the use of sophisticated  sonic weaponry and drone tactics  that caused local forces to fold faster than a bad poker hand, geopolitics with a sci-fi up...

Listen Now to the Future Now Show  This week we discuss   geopolitical shifts ,  emerging technologies , and  astronomical discoveries . A significant portion focuses on the  humanitarian crisis in Venezuela , highlighting how foreign powers and authoritarian regimes have impacted the nation’s resources and democracy. Our big interview this week is with the insp...