Thursday, January 26, 2012 Listen Now Dr. Future News 1.24.12
The latest Dr. Future News, with the Futures, MC Hager and his sons Skylar and Lucas.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Don Davis, 59, got his start in space art working at the U.S. Geological Survey doing the first Lunar maps while still a teenager. Few are capable of the detail and accuracy needed for planetary mapping, but Don’s maps are accurate enough to target spacecraft by. His attention to detail is legendary even among like-minded artists.
He won an EMMY award for his ground-breaking work in the classic PBS seriesCOSMOS, and also worked on PBS’ Planet Earth and Space Age series. His work is seen in TIME-LIFE BOOKS, SMITHSONIAN, NATURAL HISTORY magazines and OMNI to name a few. His filmwork and animation for NASA’a Jet Propulsion Lab include Voyager and Galileo flyby sequences.
He frequently illustrated books and articles by the late Carl Sagan, and he also collaborated for many years with Sagan for his essays in Sunday PARADE magazine. Lately his work has turned primarily digital and is often seen on the Discovery Channel and The Learning Channel in various documentaries on cosmic subjects.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 Listen Now Dr. Future Show 1.17.12
Lots of great future news to share, just take a look at our links for today. DIY Biology is on the rise, with the opening of Biocurious in Sunnyvale, the success of the online hub, DIY Bio, and a new sequencer so inexpensive that we can now sequence a person’s genome for $1000.
Some new contests caught our attention this week, including the online Google Science Fair for kids and teens, and the Tricorder X Prize.
CES is now over and we discuss of host of CES products sure to impact our world, like the latest in 3D printers and Smart TV.
Combining Science and Shamanism, we performed an on air rain greetings for the second part of this show. Forecasters say rain is coming, so like the band greeting the train at the station, we welcomed the rain gods.
We also look at the famous 100 year old future forecasts of American civil engineer John Elfreth Watkins, and compare and contrast them with a list of crowdsourced future predictions by the BBC.
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 Listen Now Dr. Future News 1.10.11
The great Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is happening now, and we have some hot gadget stories for you, esp in the way you will be relating to your big screen TV. We also have some interesting news about the next generation wire and little more insight into why we are the way we are, politically, that is..
Monday, January 9, 2012 Listen Now to Dave Blackburn on Dr. Future
It is with great pleasure we present our interview with Dave Blackburn, a long time pioneer in the fields of virtual/augmented reality, motion capture, and virtual film making. And until his head on automobile accident of 2010, Dave was also a world class softball pitcher, an inductee to the International Softball Congress Hall of Fame.
He will be discussing with us the latest advances in virtual filmmaking, as evidenced in “The Adventures of Tin Tin,” by Spielberg and Jackson, and explore significant developments in wheelchair/ambulatory technologies for the physically handicapped.
