136 Future Now Show - Visiting the Farallons, Comet Update, Nordic Impact Week in Silicon Valley

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I am writing this summary of this week’s show from the island of Maui, in Hawaii.  It’s been a wild week, starting with a trip to the rugged and wild Farallon Islands, 25 miles of the coast of San Francisco, home to copious wildlife, fish, marine mammals, and the great white sharks.  Getting there was harrowing, with very rought seas, but the sun broke through as we arrived revealing the majestic Farallons through the dissapating mist.  All of us had something to share about our experienes there in today’s show! And naturally we keep you up to date on the latest with 3I/ATLAS, though by the time you read this the perihelion has happened, with wthatever it has to reveal about any sentience behind it’s actions…  And in the second hour you will meet three visiting Nordics to Silicon Valley, involved with what’s known as “Clean Tech,” and the unfolding use of AI in developing the energy sector of our human civilization. We met at the start of Nordic Impact Week, at the Nordic Innovation House in Palo Alto, CA, and carried on for today’s show. The Nordics have an extemely sophisticated energy infrastruction for power sharing in Scandinavia and are in Silicon Valley to scale their advanced use of technology to the larger world, starting with us! Enjoy..

Our intrepid crew returning from the Farallon Islands

135 Future Now Show - M5 iPads, 3I/ATLAS comet update, Strange Lunar Anomoly, Disclosure Riffs, Buried 4.5 billion-year-old Proto-Earth

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M5 iPads are out, faster, lighter, more powerful than ever but not cheaper.  Taylor rises from his bed in his rehab center to tell us what’s hot with the new offerings. And least we forget, Micro Mobility is coming to San Francisco this January.  Sunday, immediately following No Kings, was UAP Disclosure Day, and we share our pov’s on the ongoing alien question.  And more strangeness with the 3I/ATLAS, as it passes through our orbit on the other side of the sun…good time for a vacation says Avi Loeb, wo we are off to Maui for some alignment.  And then there’s the moon’s strange magnetic anomoly over the South Pole, and the mysteries of the 1200 mil diameter Aiken crater, which is the go to location for all upcoming manned lunar missions.  And have you heard of the ‘proto-earth,’ the original planet before Earth was smacked by a Mars sized asteroid billions of years ago? We now have remnants of that ancient world for study, boy, does it have a lot to reveal! Enjoy!

a molten proto-Earth. Ancient rocks from Greenland, Canada and Hawaii preserve a rare chemical fingerprint that may come from this primordial planet

134 Future Now Show - Richard Cray on Starship 11, Al's Drone Disaster, 3I/ATLAS comet update, Quantum stocks soar, Bitcoin flash dives, Massive fresh water aquifer under Atlantic, Replay celebrity cloning,Veo 3, Sora 2, and now Imagine, Greg Panos on virtualizing his Mother.

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Happy birthday to Al today, aka Dr. Future! We are an acquired taste, but once acquired, we are as tasty as Guinness! This week Richard Cray discusses with us the latest with Space X’s humongus Star Ship, and it’s ground-breaking one hour flight from Texas to the Indian Ocean. Dr. Future shares his tale of losing a drone to a giant redwood in Silicon Valley. Bobby Wilder updates us on his Hawaiian adventures, and the Bitcoin flash dive, Greg Panos looks at the rise of quantum stocks and suggests we explore the free AI software, Replay AI, for cloning voices of friends, family and celebrities. Our AI, Ara, introduces a new text to video tool, IMAGINE, and Dr. F demos his use of Replay, with his Rodney Dangerfield personification, and shares a very cleverly done personalized version of the song, FAME, by Idina Menzel. Enjoy! 

Starship 11 in action

133 Future Now Show - Interstellar Object passes Mars as we watch closely, OpenAI Raises the Bar on AI Video and Agents, Interview - Max Van Praag takes us into his epic Wild Wild West tour.

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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..

ExoMars TGO image of comet 3I/ATLAS

This week OpenAI made several major announcements, raising the bar on AI generated video and easy, code free creation of smart agents, for your business and personal use. Sora 2, for example, can generate better soundscapes and better pairing of visuals with audio. It is, however, facing widespread controversy concerning copyright infringement and its potential for generating misinformation and abusive content. 

Max Van Praag has over 30 years experience in the travel industry, known for taking Europeans on epic tours of the American Wild Wild West.  After coming of age in Holland and France, he settled in San Francisco in 1995, fascinated  by the the spirit of innovation and the human potential movement of the Bay Area.  We think you’ll enjoy our interview with him as he takes us into his world.

Max takes Euros on a Wild Wild West vacation

132 Future Now Show - Plasma Vaporizer Orbit Cleaner, the Immortal Starlet Sea Anemone, Maker Faire Highlights, Dangers of Digital ID, As Interstellar 3I/ATLAS approaches Mars scientists & psychics weigh in, Earth type fire very rare in Universe

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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 year’s Maker Faire in the Bay Area.  We also look at a new way to clean up space junk and explore why fire is super rare in our universe. Plus our usual banter on legacy news. Enjoy! 

Sun Fires Energy Blast Straight at 3I/ATLAS