News- Billionaires back Asteroid Mining Venture, Massive stores of African Water, Dark Matter vanishes, The Tech Challenge

Listen Now to the Dr. Future Show 4.24.12

It’s pretty exciting this week with the announcement of Planetary Resources, the first asteroid mining company on this planet.  We explore this development with the help of Dr. Bruce Damer, who has worked with NASA on developing asteroid landing craft, and some knowledgeable callers.  Ramifications of the massive amounts of African underground water discovered also caught our attention, as it did some callers.

The second part of the show takes us to The Tech Museum in San Jose, where you’ll hear Tim Ritchie, president of the Tech Museum and Richardo Benavidez, Senior Manager of Community Relations, at Cisco Systems discuss this amazing event (see previous post).  We also interview the girl’s team from Cupertino High School, named  “CRACK CITY,” about their experience of The Tech Challenge, where 1400 children from Grades 5-12 created robotic solutions for rescuing people who have fallen off a bridge like the Golden Gate during a massive Earthquake.

We finish the show with some disturbing info about the Android operating system and what might be done..

The Tech Challenge - Students collaborate state wide for best earthquake disaster robotic solution.

Sponsored by Cisco Systems and hosted by The Tech Museum in San Jose, 1400 students from across the state of California, from elementary to high school, created various robotic solutions for rescuing people who have fallen off a bridge like the Golden Gate.  

Dr. Future interviews two of the main organizers of the event, Tim Ritchie, president of the Tech Museum and Richardo Benavidez, Senior Manager of Community Relations, at Cisco Systems.

And here, all three of us chat with the girl’s team from Cupertino High School, “CRACK CITY,” about their experience of The Tech Challenge.

This article in the Mercury News give you a good sense of this year’s Tech Challenge.

Natural Gas update, new UDACITY courses, Ejecta life, and Guest Dr. Bruce Damer, visionary technologist and independent scientist.

Listen Now to the Dr. Future Show 4.17.12

This week we have not divided the show into News and Interview segments, as Dr. Bruce Damer joined Mrs. Future and Mr. Past for most of the the news.  So, we have one show for you, covering a few thoughts on energy and natural gas, the new UDacity courses, and when Bruce enters, we go warp speed, covering his new theory of the Big Bang, Interstellar Ejecta, speculations on alien contact, Drake’s Equation, augmented reality, Avatars, the Digibarn project,  2012, Terence McKenna, and other thoughts about Life, the Universe, and everything in it.  We had a lot of fun making this show and may you enjoy listening to it!

Dr. Future News - Trash N Fashion Show, New Flavor of $$- Mint Chip created, Humanoid Robot Grand Challenge, Google X Project Glass, Chocolate- now in 3D! Giving up the Wheel, Rising from the unconscious depths, $35 Tablets, wtf? UV Medical Flashlight, EZ Picture sharing, soon in FB., ,

Listen Now Dr. Future News 4.10.12

Big news week on all fronts! Fashion and Trash converge at the annual Trash N Fashion Show, here in Santa Cruz this Saturday eve., the Canadians have introduced a new flavor of $$$, Mint Chip, that you can carry around on your thumb drive. Not to be outdone, the Brits are releasing the first printer to print custom chocolate treats in 3D, taking chco design far beyond the current blobs of sweet goo drops.

DARPA announces its newest Grand Challenge, as they search for the best humanoid type robot, what used to be called ‘androids,’ before the name was largely co-opted by the Google smart phone operating system. Hopefully, we’ll come up with robots more kindly towards us than the Terminator, which seemed to have lost it’s love for humanity..except for Arnie’s T-3 model, of course..

To help us along on this, MIT has launched an intiative to make it ‘easy pezy’ to build custom robots, from concept to creation.  What do you want your bot to do?  Also in the education world are the immient release of the $35 Android based tablets, from and for Indians, at least at first.  A 10X cheaper tablet should affect that ecosystem rather profoundly..

And as fuel prices go up, other options are starting to appear, like a new biodiesel animal fat plant in Watsonville, that will almost double the nation’s supply of biodiesel! Like I said, lots of news this week..

Guest- Jai Hudes and his whirl wind Traveler's Time Capsule Tour.

Listen Now to Jai Hudes

Another cosmic adventure besides the Magic Love Bus this Spring is the Awareness Portal Tour and Game eXperience, orgininating from our very own Jai Hudes and his wife Shanti, in Ben Lomond, CA.  They will be visiting enclaves in North America of people playing “X The Game” .  Track them as they begin what they describe as,

“An Epic Journey Traveling 10,000 Miles to 44 Cities in 56 Days
To Open Up 44 Portals of Higher Awareness in Local Communities
And Share Powerful Tools of Empowerment To Make a Difference Now!”

In this segment, Jai describes the tour, which includes communications with Dolphins, and demonstrates X the Game on Dr. Future.  

We then explore a few other strange Dr. Future stories, like the new Galactic Positioning System, Smart Sand, and the Tacocopter.