Future News - Mercedes Enters Home Power Market, Global Life Expectancy Climbs, Report on Toyota's Mirai Hydrogen Car, Taylor Barcroft updates us on the latest and greatest from Apple Computer.

Listen Now to Future News 9.15.2015

We’ll soon have more options other than selling power back to the grid as first Tesla, now Mercedes-Benz, offer Mercedes-Benz’s Lithium battery-based home power systemus advanced battery storage options for our solar panel arrays.  These Lithium-Ion battery packs will also give us power when the electrical grid is down, during storms and other emergencies, and are a welcome replacement to anyone who has had to deal with the old-fashioned lead acid batteries. 

In case you’ve been wondering about new fuel options for cars, we have a call-in report of a listener who recently test drove the new Toyota Mirai hydrogen car.  One of the cool features of this vehicle is that it provides 110/220V electrical output as a powerful emergency backup generator, should you need it. Oh, I and did I mention the only exhaust from the car is water? 

We think you’ll also appreciate Taylor Barcroft’s report on Apple’s latest new gadgets, an upgraded iPhone 6s and 6s Plus,Apple pundit Taylor Barcroft watch software and fashion updates, and the iPad Pro, a bigger, more powerful tablet with an optional smart stylus, the Apple Pencil.  Enjoy!

Future News - Toyota invests $25 Million in Robot Cars, Apple hiring 86 AI Experts, Old Message in Bottle Found, Mysteries of the Human Biome, Is Tech Unnatural?, Tenets of the Metaverse

Listen Now to Future News 9.08.2015

Lots of news in the Robotic world this week, with Toyota investing $25 million into a new R&D facility, Apple hiring 86 AI oriented employees.  We also have a report on the use of smart phones by Syrian refugees on their way to Bottle launched in England in 1905 as part of study on deep ocean currents discovered on island off of Germany’s North Sea Coast in 2015Germany, mysteries of the human biome, re-imagining the ultimate limo ride while talking to our favorite limo driver, John Monahan, about personal encounters with sci fi authors Issac Asimov and Ray Bradbury.  We also begin a very big conversation on the rules of cyberspace and the newly forming metaverse, as we enter the next phase of VR evolution.  Enjoy!

Interview - Scientist Entrepreneur John Furber on Asteroid Impacts, Tsunami Prevention, and the latest in Longevity Research

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John D. Furber is the CEO and founder of Legendary Pharmaceuticals. He is an entrepreneur and scientist who has been studying the biology of aging and regeneration for more than 20 years. In our interview he brings us up to date on some of the more promising approaches to senescence of late, including studies suggesting that the blood plasma serum of younger individuals can improve the health of older persons.  

Scientist Entrepreneur John FurberJohn also discusses with us his interest with asteroids and looks at the various ways in which we could avert a potential disaster. Nukes in space? An interesting thought.  We also discuss a tsunami prevention scheme that could save the East coast of North America  from potential disaster.  John is a very articulate and stimulating guest. 

Future News- Uber Aggressively invests in Autonomous Vehicles and Automotive Security, New Solution to Black Hole Mystery, SCUBA like Tricorder Developed, Microbes Implicated in Mass Planetary Extinction Event, Joe Firmage's Radical Plan to Simplify the Internet

Listen Now to Future News 9.01.2015

Welcome to September and more Future News now! What’s happening? The autonomous vehicle world heats up, Hawking offers new insights into how Black Holes may handle information, a hot new medical ‘tricorder’ makes it debut, Joe Firmage gets ready to debut a revolutionary way to evolve the internet, artifical leaves create biofuel for our machines…the unusual but expected future for the likes of us, and that is a great thing!

In our history of the future department, the story of the week revolves around the largest of this planet’s five mass planteary extinctions, the end-Permian extinction, 252 million years ago.  Three independent sets of evidence suggest that microbes were the culprit in completely changing the nature of the climate and ocean chemistry of this planet, with a little help from volcanoes. A fascinating story which we delve into in this report. Enjoy!

Interview with Dr. Bruce Damer on Space Project Shepherd and Origins of Biological Life

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Dr. Bruce Damer, a Canadian-American multi-disciplinary scientist researching the question of origin of life, the incapsulation, capture, and analysis of icy asteroids along with other  solar system ‘planetesimals’, shares his latest projects, research, and speculations with us.

Did life originate on Earth?  Is Asteroid exploration more our future than colonizing Mars? Should we spread our seed, and not just our species, throughout our solar system? Can life be created from scratch?  

Dr. Bruce takes us from the inner realms of early life on Earth to the outer boundaries of spreading life of all kinds throughout the solar system. 

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Dr. Bruce Damer explores the ancient origins of biological life in Australia.