Future Now

E 65 Auroras and Special Report- Gabrielle challenges Meta.ai and ChatGPT 4 to compete in understanding the true nature of Reality itself. Guess who is more aware? This show takes the cake when it comes to more unusual content for us.  It started with our correspondent Gabrielle Cianfrani asking Meta.ai a ‘simple’ question before bed, “I’ve been thinking lately that we are just pure consciousness...

E 62 Living Solar Panels, Llama 3 freely available, Messages from Voyager, Light Sail 3 Launched, Dune 2 & Anti-social Network reviews, Our view of venture capitalist Vinod Khosla's world changing predictions, AI $$ ideas, jokes, and blended coffee! A promising future lies in potential symbiotic relationships between our tech and nature.  A example of theat lies with the use of  algae in the g...

E 61 Bay Area Solar Geoengineering for Brighter Clouds, Udio AI Audio Demo, Space News and Sonifications, Nordic Dave pilots his Cessna 182 to the Totality Zone I couldn’t believe it when I read about a  geoengineering project changing the reflectivity of clouds  in our home, the SF Bay Area, in Scientific American, a mainstream science publication! Maybe there is something to all the airplane tra...

E 60 Eclipse stories with ISS View, Lunar Time Zone! Biggest camera ever! Chilean Super Telescope, Hundreds of twin rogue planets discovered between star systems, the singing nuns at Abbey Road.  We hope you all enjoyed your eclipse experience, be it partial, full, or virtual!  Our fav visuals were from the ISS, where you could see the eclipse, appearing as a dark cloud-like 115 mile diameter shad...

E 59 We are still on the road this week, this time in magical Mt. Shasta, where we introduce you one of it's residents, Mary Donnelly.  A New Englander trained as an RN in pediatric oncology, she learned of Mt. Shasta via an alternative healer, and feeling she has found her true home, has never looked back.  We speak with her about her journey to mountain and the healing modalities she is now expl...

E 58 This week we are on the  road in beautiful Port Townsend, Washington, visiting Jim Rough, founder of www.wisedemocracy.org and Casandra Firman, Jim’s wife and partner in updating democracy as we know it. We all know about the importance of voting, and the necessities of jury duty and national defence as citizens, but have you heard of collaborative ‘choice creation?’ Jim and Cassandra help us...

E 57 Shakespeare in the Spring We are on a roadtrip to Seattle and doing our podcast from AirB&B’s for the next couple of shows. This week is from Ashland, a cultural hotspot known for great art galleries, theaters, restaurants, and the home of the world famous Oregon Shakespeare Festival.  We saw the opening production of MacBeth, and Dune, part 2.  Much to discuss and explore this week, as t...