Dr. Future News and Commentary - Peter Diamandis NASA talk on Abundance, Autonomous Evolution, Solar System Economy, Moral Machines, Mental update, Improving Facebook, Mr. Past lives!

Dr. Future News 12.04.12

We have more commentary than usual for this show, as we had very provocative topics to stimulate us, like Peter Diamandis, who spoke on the topic of Abundance this week at NASA Ames.  Are we ready for a Star Trek type of society, where it’s not so much about jobs as about passion and actual skills?  And with technological change  happening exponentially these days, can we move into a solar system economy smoothly? We think so, as it is actually happening now. Enjoy!

Captain Crunch Gives us some Advice on Passwords

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After all the bru ha ha from Wired this month on how we are not safe with using online passwords anymore, we contacted Captain Crunch, King of the Hackers, for his sage advice.  Enjoy!

Future News- Migrating to Mars, Facebook Copyright Hoax, Sasquatch DNA, Cross breeding Endangered Species, Gourmet robot burgers, Pentagon Tries to Avoid Terminators.

Dr. Future News 11.27.12 Listen Now

Elon Musk has got us thinking about Mars again with plans to increase the oxygen content of the atomosphere to the point where it can sustain human life. It’s at that magic flash point, he predicts, when everyone who can afford a half million dollars to leave Earth can become a Mars colonist.  That’s the magic number for leaving this planet, the cost of the average California burb house…Sounds about right..

Also of major interest this week is a new approach to dealing with creatures on the verge of extinction.

 “Breed them back into existence!” some new conservationists say, “with related species.”  What?  Not keep them purebreed.  Heresey from the current paradigm of creature preservation..

Gee, and then there’s the latest DNA evidence of Big Foot.  Apparently 15,000 years ago a North American woman cross bred with another species, creating the elusive creature..

Robots are also advancing with a new robotic hamburger helper that’ll make them your way, at 360 burgers an hour, as we see the approaching launch of the first restuarant chain that profitably sells gourmet hamburgers. Not be left behind, as the Pentagon evolves new robots that can turn you into hamburger meat, they’ve been looking at how they can make sure that there is a human somewhere in the equation making the ‘kill’ decisions. No sir, no Terminators in this shop…

The Futures Interview with 'What is Erotic?' producers, Laura Bishop and Misha Bonaventura

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Every Valentines Day for the last 7 years, a highly sensual and popular variety show has been presented to the Santa Cruz community at large, with it’s content derived from members in the community.  This very personal self-reflective highly creative process is guided by Laura Bishop and Misha Bonaventura, who help each participant be their most authentic erotic self for the show, and usually for their lives after that.

Could such an approach be a key to evolving the emotional and sensual literacy of communities world-wide? Also, Dr. Future runs a couple of his ideas on intimacy at a distance by our local experts..

Laura Bishop and Misha Bonaventura on The Dr. Future Show at KOMY.

Future News - Iron Dome Details, Smarter by Chocolate, Chris Anderson Leaves Wired for 3D Printing, Kansas City on Fiber, Utopian Library, McAfee Blog

Dr. Future News 11.20.12

The outbreak of new hostilities in the Middle East dominated this week’s news, hence our piece on Israel’s Iron Dome, an anti-missle system.  Some encouraging news about the cognitive enhancement capabilities of chocolate this week as well..perhaps if there were more chocolate in the Middle East.. 

Kansas City now has gigibit ethernet wifi speeds, thanks to Google Fiber!  Anyone ready to move to bandwidth heaven? We cover some brave indivduals who have, seeing KS as a new entrepreneurial frontier.  Perhaps it is…

Basic outline of how Israel’s Iron Dome Defense System works.