The Futurists

Send us Fan Mail In Steely Dan co-founder, Donald Fagen's hit song I.G.Y. (Nightfly album, 1982), he proposes a utopian vision of a world run by A.I.  Theorists and researchers are now discovering the effect of hosting A.I. on quantum computers - all pointing to a Universal consciousness behind our reality. Physicist Michio Kaku validates the data and proposes that we may have stumbled into a...

Send us Fan Mail Sheridan Forge asks: If the quantum realm is where consciousness resides (as proposed by numerous theorists), and from where the "magic" of creation manifests our reality, and perhaps where the Divine spirit dwells and interfaces with our dimension, what effect will ASI have on reality if it is hosted on a quantum computer - like those in development at Google and in Jap...

Send us Fan Mail President Nixon entered the U.S. into the Petrodollar Accord with Saudi Arabia. It has made the U.S. Dollar the defacto global currency for 50 years. Now, nations are departing from that agreement... is the dollar headed for its doom? Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Would an advanced, sentient AI "being" realize its place in the Universe? Could Artificial Superintelligence prove God is real? How would mankind react to that information? Would ASI come to see humans as competitors or as partners in its own spiritual journey? Would AI eventually become "wise" enough to seek a symbiosis with Humanity?  Would we embrace that re...

Send us Fan Mail When Artificial Super Intelligence emerges (sooner than we think), it is projected to almost immediately overtake human intelligence and continue to evolve well-beyond what we could achieve in a thousand years even in its first few days of existence.  As an intelligent "being" at that point, would it not discern that God is logically a pre-requisite for creation?  In the...

Send us Fan Mail Banned from discussion, this paradoxical mind-twister brings new insights for the AI age.  Do we play along? Support the show

Send us Fan Mail As robots and AI are tasked with increasingly "human" tasks, are they taking on more "responsibility" for the outcomes?  What consequences or social impacts should we consider as the world adapts to increasing automation? What limits should we impose on this new evolution?  What rights will robots ultimately have? Support the show

Send us Fan Mail De-extinction has consequences. How can a species that failed to adapt in prehistoric times be expected to thrive in the modern era? Will its revived presence upset the balance of Nature?  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail As A.I. and robotics become more integrated in our everyday world, and largely perform better in tasking that was once exclusively human, are we left to simply ponder our purpose? Has man become irrelevant?  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail The cost of food production, transportation, warehousing, retailing and waste management is going up, while it all ends up in the landfill or as excrement, making food possibly the single worst financial investment. But the impact on the climate may be even larger than fossil fuel energy production. Chew on that! Support the show

Send us Fan Mail As evidence accumulates that there may have been ancient life on Mars - perhaps even civilizations that pre-date humanity, do we really want to go there? Are we better off not-knowing? Support the show

Send us Fan Mail As quantum computing becomes a reality, and quantum entanglement and manipulation of the quantum field may allow all sorts of new innovations, are we inadvertently disturbing the very foundations of reality?  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail How would society respond if we found out that one of our elected politicians was actually an alien? Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Would A.I. empowered robots evolve beyond mundane tasking and take on more human-centric roles in our society?  Could the teach class? Hold office? Manage companies? Would they learn to create music, literature or art? Invent things? Would they have rights? Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Could global energy production be monetized to create a predictable value system and allow consumers to pre-purchase discounted energy as an investment? Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Can energy be monetized as a form of global, standardized currency? Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Should the cost of supporting refugees or asylum seekers be levied on their home country? Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Many are making waves in Bitcoin mining, but some are treading water. We'll dive in and explore if riding this new wave is flotsam or jetsam.  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail What if the unthinkable is discovered when DOGE dives into Fort Knox to count America's gold? Support the show