Future Now 07 - The nearby Mae West Point, PI Day Humor, Steve Follmer on the new weight loss/end obesity drugs, Greg Panos on the latest creative AI tools, Richard Cray Sings for an AI experiment

Listen Now to Future Now Show 07 3.14.2022

While we were recording this week’s show, the wind and rain were howling outside, thousands locally were without power and bandwidth, and we were concerned about large trees falling on our house.  Fortunately, we were able to complete the show without incident, and what a show it is! 

We take a closer look at the mysterious Mae West point, explore the strangeness of Boulder Creek, Steve Follmer, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, shares his experiences with a class of weight loss drugs known as semaglutides, which are taking the world by storm. 

And on the creative front, Greg Panos describes several new AI-powered tools that give us visual and audio super powers, i.e. creating amazing images in a few seconds from a simple textual description, like “create a monkey in a space suit meditating on the shri yantra.” Though is cause to fear AI, there is even more cause to celebrate how AI can enhance our creative expression. Enjoy!

AI generated image from the text: “a monkey in a space suit meditating on the shri yantra”

Future Now Show - Quake Predictor, Organics in Asteroid, eband-aid healing, Interview - Sierra Hooshiari on Brain Pop, her healthy soda, Walter Russell download, Carl Sagan rap mix.

Listen to Future Now Show 3.07.2023

Is there really any way of predicting Earthquakes? We’ve recently become aware of Stefan Burns, who has worked as a geologist/geophysicist in NorCal.  He has been paying attention to shifts in the readings of earth magnetometers, especially in the low frequency realms, such as 0-50 Hz. He has been noticing power increases in the Schuman resonances, and that these increases may be correlated with pre-earthquake activity.  This is especially of interest to us, as one of the closest earth magnetomenters to us shgowing increased activity is located in our home town of Boulder Creek, at the Heart Math Institute, and less than 20 miles from the infamous San Andreas Fault!

Our interview is with New Age Drinks founder Sierra Hooshiari, a survivor of a serious brain concussion that had put her in a coma for days. In her years long recovery from this trauma, she explored what brain chemicals were essential to her health, and formulated a soft drink incorporating much of what she learned. We think you’ll enjoy hearing her story..  For more info, goto TikTok@BrainpopRelax and Instagram @brainpopdrink @drinkbrainpop. Website is www.NewAgeDrinks.com

Sierra Hooshiari, founder of New Age Drinks

Also in this episode we speak with tribal story teller Jahn Ballard about the life of Walter Russell, renaissance scientist/artist of the 20th century and the Twilight Club, a consortium of influential thinkers, poets, and businessmen, including Mark Twain, and Andrew Carnegie.  This is a chapter in American history not really well known but strangely relevant to today’s challenges.

We finish with a musical remix featuring a cosmic rap by none other than Carl Sagan! Enjoy..

Our video of Walter Russell and the Twilight Club Story by Jahn Ballard

Future Now Podcast - Big Solar Storm, Nextgen Starlink V2's, Moon Time Zone, Lab Leak Analysis, Barcroft on M2 Macs, Jim Rintoul and the Folk Song Army

Listen Now to Future Now 2.28.2023

SpaceX has now launched their first batch of Starlink V2 satellites, which among other things, offers high speed internet direct to your smartphone from anywhere permissible on the planet. This could be a game changer in so many ways..and in the Apple world, Taylor Barcroft takes us on a tour of the latest M2 Macs, and what are the best performance/price choices currently available. In the Covid universe, the Department of Energy announced their support of the lab leak theory origins of the virus.  Bobby Wilder helps us take a deeper dive into this controversy.

Jim Rintoul and The Folk Song Army

And speaking of controversy, our special guest this week is singer/songwriter Jim Rintoul, who is writing songs with political import, in the tradition of the anti-war folk singers of the turbulent 1960’s, such as Tom Lehrer (who originally came up with the name ‘Folk Song Army.’   “Guitars are the weapons we bring

To the fight against poverty, war, and injustice. Ready, aim, sing!”

We speak to Jim about the power of music to change people’s views of the world and of controversial issues in particular.  In today’s show we feature his song, “Ukraine,” and end the show with “Truckin,” his political tune about last year’s Trucker’s strike and convoy in Canada.  Enjoy!

Folk Song Army Video aimed at achieving Peace in the Ukraine

Future Now News and Commentary - New Bandwidth Options, Beaming Energy from Space, De-extinction or Here Come the Clones, Train Derailment Disaster, Soul or Oversoul?, ChatGPT comments about human consciousness on Shrooms.

Listen Now to Future Now - Feb 23, 2023

This week Al & Sun (Dr. Mrs. Future) are joined by fellow evolutionary agents Bobby Wilder and Gabrielle Cianfrani in discussing this week’s news, as well as some of our favorite topics, including cloning, beaming energy, moving consciousness from body to body, and the state of the Oversoul.  We also ask ChatGPT about psylocybin and it’s use in impacting human consciousness. Who better to ask than the Omnipresent AI?  Don’t answer that..just enjoy!!

Alex Grey’s rendition of the Oversoul

Future Now - Balloon Baloney, Faking AI Art, Sun breaks off part of Northern Pole, Leonardo's Gravity Experiments, Where in Space is the Tesla?, ChatGPT Competition Heats Up!

Listen to Future Now with Al/Sun & Bobby 2.14.2023

Hi folks, welcome back! We have just made the transition from KSCO to Santa Cruz Voice, and are still  in the process of setting up the new studio. Hence, few breaks for news, traffic, ads, etc., at least at this point. We expect you will see improved production values as we move forward with our transition. Meanwhile, I think you’ll enjoy this week’s offerings of future news and will appreciate our analysis of the balloon shoot downs of late, what a fiasco! And the Sun itself breaking off a piece, are you kidding? Reminds of a joke newscaster saying, “Earth Cracks in Half, Details at 11!” Only in this case, its real, and we can prove it! Enjoy..