Future Now

Meet Angelina Cianfrani, 23-year old daughter of one of regular contributors, Gabriel Cianfrani, a Gen Z digital native from southern New Jersey. She shares with us her and her generations perspective on the state of reality, as a recent college graduate and soon student of law.  Well spoken, she's quite pragmatic, and socially conscious, prioritizing authenicity, inclusivity, metal health, and work-life balance, though somewhat bu...

 Bobby is on the road this week, but we do hear from him briefly. There are some fascinating developments of late, including the development of 100x faster and much cheaper optical computing, biomimicry applied to making a painless needle and cheap non-clogging micro printer nozzles from a mosquito's probiscus, a fish filter for sifting out microplastics from your washing machine.  Meanwhile NASA has lofted a massive high altitude ...

'Tis the holiday season and it our fervant hope that you are having at least half as much fun as we are! Friends to see, places to dine, relatives to be. And we have a holiday ‘comet’ to further explore, as it’s closest approach to Earth is December 19th! Keep an eye on the sky and it’s anti-tail, and you just might be amazed. Short of that, there are some online astronomers and psychics tracking our Interstellar visitor closely fo...

Hi Folks, Welcome to our first video edition of The Future Now Show starring the likes of us. (Al & Sun Lundell as Dr. Mrs. Future with Bobby Wilder.) The audio podcasts will continue, and in honoring St. Silicon's prophesy, "The AND is Near" we present you with a video version of Episode #142 of The Future Now Show. Let us know what you think, and whether you enjoy seeing something about our conversation..or...should we stick ...

This week the film "The Age of Disclosure" is making waves (on Amazon Prime), especially in our home town of Santa Cruz, also home to Danny Sheehan's New Paradigm Institute, and his push for governmental opening on the alien/ufo/uap question.  Bobby Wilder was there at the local sceening of The Age of Disclosure, with a first hand report.  Ara, our show's fav AI, adds much to this discussion as well, connecting many of the 'dots' o...

Besides our usual engaging selves and stories to share with you this week, we thought we’d create a little AI media experiment..We were thinking..with all the AI’s around these days, could we round them up and work “Excuse me, but may I adjust your atitude, just a little?”with them as a team for creating more insight into our weekly stories? We wondered.. what if we could get two arch rival AI’s to collaborate with each other for p...

We are back on the Mainland, after 10 fantastic days in Maui.  Still feeling 'Mauified' yet ready for whatever the world sends our way! We are at solar maximum, so watch for light shows in the Northern Sky. And get ready to expand your horizons next year with internet/phone com via your phone and a direct connection to Starlink, Space X's low earth orbit communications network! Soon, one service does internet/phone globally, and it...

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 m...

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 orbi...

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 ...

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..

This week OpenAI made several major announcements, raising the bar on AI generated video an...

This week we have geopolitical concerns, and criticize legacy media calls for war. We then explore theories of quantum consciousness and reality splits. We then focus on celestial events like the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, along with the threat of asteroids, which leads to a discussion about space exploration and militarization, contrasting NASA's historical role with the newly formed Space Force. Our conversation also touches on...

Ah yes, it’s that time of year when Apple Computer announces their latest offerings, the iPhone 17 series, the Apple Watch 11, Airpods Pro 3 and the  iPhone Air. Sadly our Apple buddy, Taylor Barcroft, had a recent stroke and is currently recovering in a rehab center in nearby Capitola.  But given the significance of this massive Apple event and Taylor deep love of their products, he rose to the occasion to give us his take on the ...