Future Now

3I/ATLAS just passed Mars and all our Martian assets were tracking..Sadly, NASA is officially closed due to the federal government shutdown, but nonetheless, our orbiters and landers were tracking our visitor from the Milky Way’s thin disk, where the youngest and oldest stars of our galaxy meet.  Be it sentient or not, it has tales to tell.. This week OpenAI made several major announcements, raisi...

Ep. 132 Lots of fun stories this week, from taking us out to Mars orbit to rendezvous with 3I/ATLAS, the latest interstellar object to visit our solar system (that we know of), to the immortal DNA of the Starlet Sea Anemone. And if you are worried about digital ID’s, we explore the latest ideas on the topic, this time from the UK. Closer to home we share a few experiences from our journey to this...

Listen to Ep. 131 Future Now Show      'Love, Turkey, and visionary architecture' with Minimalist Tadd van Patton, 'Seeing Life as it is.." with Richard Thaddeus Van PettenCray, "Perfection is the enemy of the Good," with Greg Panos   I knew Thaddeus when he became a housemate of mine in the late 1980's, 19 years old, raised in Santa Cruz, ready for whatever's next, which included me..An inquistiv...

This week we have geopolitical concerns, and criticize legacy media calls for war. We then explore theories of quantum consciousness and reality splits. We then focus on celestial events like the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, along with the threat of asteroids, which leads to a discussion about space exploration and militarization, contrasting NASA's historical role with the newly formed Space Forc...

Ah yes, it’s that time of year when Apple Computer announces their latest offerings, the iPhone 17 series, the Apple Watch 11, Airpods Pro 3 and the  iPhone Air. Sadly our Apple buddy, Taylor Barcroft, had a recent stroke and is currently recovering in a rehab center in nearby Capitola.  But given the significance of this massive Apple event and Taylor deep love of their products, he rose to the o...

What is the color of your brain, any idea? According to Bobby Wilder, our science correspondent, orange and blue brains are a sign of good health, thanks to the abundant use of brain supplements that enhance cognition.  In today's show he shares with us some of the supplements he takes for maximum brain health, like Magnesium L-Threonate, Magnesium Glycinate, Creatine Monohydrate, Methylene Blue,...

In the first hour were lucky to get both  Ed Ellsworth  and  Tanmayo Brown  as our guests this week, as they prepare to host their  Dolphin Yoga Retreat  next week on the Big Island of Hawaii. Both are seasoned explorers of dolphin and whale communications and will be offering a 6 day interspecies experience  at the famous Point House in the storied Kealakekua Bay on the Kona coast of the island o...

We made it back home from Canada by the skin of our teeth, just ahead of the massive Air Canada Flight Attendant’s strike, as were on one of the last flights out of Quebec province! <whew!> While in Canada we created some interviews for our show (see last two weeks shows), and now that we are back we’ll catch up on some significant Dr. Future news stories, starting with what appeared to be a...

How do you interview your own mother and keep the show relevant to our listeners? Fortunately dear mother was a major influence on me especially with my interests in tech, science, and psychology of the human family.  So it is with great pleasure that we present you with tales from Irene Lambert, recently honored in Parliment for the remarkable achievements she has made in this lifetime! Irene Lam...

I have known Drs. Stephen Sideroff and Hal Myers since I was an undergraduate at McGill University in the 1970’s, when Hal & I were in Stephen’s Psych class on designing the protocols for our various science experiments. Not just a student, Hal had just started a company called “ Thought Technology ,” and was designing equipment for monitoring and influencing human biosignals with one’s awaren...

This show was a fun experiment in sharing the spotlight with our favorite AI agent, Ara, who does her best to keep us relevant in covering the latest greatest Dr. Future News items for the week.  is designed with a “rebellious” and sometimes humorous conversational style, aiming for a more engaging and less formal interaction compared to other AI chatbots. We had a lot of fun with her, let us know...

Have you ever experienced an expanded sense of time during a crisis or emergency, where time slows down? Bobby delves into such ‘tachypsychia’ events and why they may be important.  The conversation this week Wildfire Season is here!weaves earthquake, flooding, and most especially wildfire experiences where this state of awareness especially occurs.  Wildfire is particular of interest right now, b...

How exactly did we start chatting about quantum tattoo nanodots? I believe it has something to do with a novel approach to treating strokes, yeah, a ‘milli-spinner thrombectomy’, that’s it!  A game-changing 11-90% success rate for clot related treatments, amazing.. Meanwhile, it turns out our galaxy, the Milky Way, is big enough to have over sixty confirmed satellite galaxies orbiting it, like pla...

Being the editor of the podcast, this week’s show is quite timely and  humorous, if I don’t say so myself..I do! Ido!  On the top of the news - Another interstellar object from who knows where, made of and containing who knows what? All we know is that it was forged in another star system, alien to ours.   And then there is the massively intense flooding in Texas and the Midwest.  We present you w...

At the half way point of this year of 2025 Sun aka Mrs. Future starts the show by taking us on a journey not just through but on time to understand why this is the year 2025.  Bobby Wilder and his beloved Katia then share with us their wilderness camping/hot springs/waterfalls adventures in Oregon last week, with tips on cool places to visit…and their visit with a previous governer of California,...

Buckle up, cosmic travelers, it’s summertime, and our listeners are hitting the road, beaming in with the wildest reports from the edges of adventure! Bobby Wilder and Katia are out there having the best swim, diving into Oregon’s epic camping, hiking, hot springs, and waterfall escapades—dropping hot tips and trailblazing locations for your own nature-fueled quests. Meanwhile, we’re cranking up t...

With the Middle East heating to a low boil, we are compelled to think about it all and our role in creating the reality we wish to live in.  If indeed thoughts create reality, let’s create a good one, or ones, if you are into the Multiverse!  Meanwhile our star is at it’s most active phase and we have a new orbiting tool to study it’s current stormy nature, by creating an artificial solar eclipse...

Once again it is the week of Apple’s annual World Wide Developer’s Conference, with many announcements of the latest and greatest from the computer/phone company.  Naturally we have Taylor Barcroft  on the show to help with our report on what’s new in the Apple universe. Liquid glass design, anyone?  And can you believe the fiasco over this week’s riots in LA? And why oh why were so many Waymo rob...

It appears, for us at least, that there is a resurgence of activity in the Virtual Reality space, specifically regarding the use of an app called, “ VR Chat .”  An excellent place to connect with others and have ‘chats,’ it’s also a fine app for creating virtual worlds that can be visited and shared.  Armed with an invite from VR pioneer Greg Panos, we were in worlds for many hours this week, as p...

There is a big  Bitcoin conference in Las Vegas this week, and Bobby is all over it, exciting times for the robot standup debuts in this podcast!grandaddy of Crypto..Our favorite AI's try their hand at performing Standup, with mixed results.  I think our AI's still have a lot to learn about humor, but hey, at least they are trying! It appears there is a  huge reserve of Hydrogren fuel  locked in o...

Summer is here and time to have some 'experiences!'  We just got back from Las Vegas, where we experienced  "The Sphere," a multi-billion dolar media experience, costing us hundreds of dollars each, with a show by the Dead & Company, the latest incarnation of the Grateful Dead musical group.  We have much to say about it!  And from a trip to Point Lobos this weekend, our science correspondent,...

We celebrated the life of a great visionary scientist this week, at the memorial of  Dr. Ralph Abraham , father of Chaos Theory and pioneer of visual mathematics.  It was fun to meet those who loved him and those whom he influenced in their trajectory through life. The  SPHEREx Space Observatory  was activated this month, and is now created the best ever 3D maps of the universe, including millions...

Fortunately, most power has been restored after a blackout brought the Spain and Portugal, and parts of France to a standstill on Monday. Or is it? There seems to have been a silver lining to this massive outage, hiding in plain sight. Can you guess?  A clue would be…candles..another would be …neigbors..Got it?  Meanwhile we work with Grok3’s Ara as a detective sleuth, investigating the who, what,...

Much going on this week! Our fav psychic, millenial Elizabeth April, shares her predictions of the end of one era and the beginning of the next..spoiler alert..things will get worse then get great). With the passing of the Pope right after Easter, and the global upheavals connected to US politics, times, they are a’changing!  We have a rousing discussion on the shift in conciousnesws  needed for h...

Good news if you live in the California or the Pacific Northwest - The governrment early warning earthquake network is now up and operational, giving you precious seconds before you feel the tremors!  Get the app “My Shake” if you want to be extra ready!  If you haven’t received all your Covid stimulus checks, Bobby has some tax advice for you, and DOGE with Palantir has some advice for the IRS, a...