Saturday, November 19, 2011 Wednesday, November 16, 2011 Listen Now, The Dr. Future Show News 11.15.11
The many shutdowns of Occupy sites got our attention this week, with such activities being tracked live via Twitterspace and internet-based video streams. What’s next in this arena? We explore some of the options.
In other news, Ray Kurzweil is now involved with a Hollywood flick on the Singularity, 3D printing is starting to impact mainstream thinking, Polaroid gives us instant grat digitally in the tried-and-true way they did in the old days, a new kind of robot, and what’s going on at the secret labs of Google X?
This week our news is a separate file from our interview hour, where Dr. Bruce Damer speaks of a new blueprint for US government, Democracy 3.0, incorporating everything he has learned working and interacting with groups around the world to define how things could be. This is posted as a standalone, for those particularly interested in what Dr. Damer has to say. Meanwhile, enjoy The Dr. Future Show news!
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 Listen Now to Bruce Damer on The Dr. Future Show
Have you ever wondered how a democratic society might work, if it were designed incorporating today’s communications technologies and other innovations?
If so, then check out: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xpopyU_RwN_FUlcjLUse1tFg3cKcSPTzwQftqy9QTWs/edit
Bruce Damer is a Canadian who emigrated to the US in 1985. When Bruce was sworn in as a US citizen in 2000 the federal judge presiding over the ceremony explained thatthere is no democracy at the national level but you still have a chance for some representation at the local level so please fill out your voter registration card. Bruce has spent much of the last decade pondering this statement, wondering if America has ever actually been a democracy in the sense that Canada, Denmark and other countries are (no, as it has always disenfranchised large segments of its population). He then went on to investigate how America might one day become a functioning democracy, civil society and good member of the global community of nations.
This blueprint for the Radical Remaking of America resulted from this thinking and his interaction with a wide range of American society from Pentagon generals to NASA astronauts, Silicon Valley billionaires, activists and burners, Big Bankers, Christian home schoolers, off the gridders, cultural creatives, and just plain and wonderful ordinary folks. He has worked around the world, in the early 1990s helping develop one of the first software labs in Eastern Europe right after the fall of Communism, later speaking in South Africa during the transition from white rule, doing pioneering work in Internet virtual worlds and simulation for NASA, and is currently working with progressive projects in high tech to better lives around the world from the US to the Middle East, Pakistan and China and elsewhere.
If you are curious about Bruce and the team around the RadicalRemake Blueprint effort find Bruce and our page “Radical Remake” on Facebook or reach Bruce directly on the web at:
Sunday, November 13, 2011 After our show with Ben, he spoke for a couple of hours to the community at large about critial issues of health. We now present you with his talk, crammed with key info!
Tuesday, November 8, 2011 Listen Now Dr. Future Show 11.08.11
Whew, a lot going on this week! The Kindle Fire has some new competition before it’s even released..if you are thinking of getting a Kindle Fire, check out Nook too.. now about this beaming/ripping open the very vacuum of space? Why? WTF? We attempt to tell you about this latest super-sized science experiment..we warn you, it’s not pretty…
And we are very pleased to introduce to you our guest today, pharmacist Ben Fuchs, a dedicated long time student of the living chemistry of the human biological organism. He takes what can be a very complex convoluted subject and makes it very comprehensible, and well, sometimes even funny! Well, he’s getting better at the stand up comedic element..the more he hangs out with the likes of us..
Not a big believer in strong will power, Ben has distilled much of his wisdom on creating a healthier body into a series of ‘hacks’ you can readily apply, given most person’s current lack of control over their own biosystem. My favorite bio hack is Ben’s idea of drinking some salt water in the morning, which supposedly eliminates your desire for salty foods, like pizza and pretzels, for the duration of the day.
“Pizza, Dr. Future?” ‘No thanks, I just don’t feel like having a piece. I had my salt water this morning..” (Gee, I wonder if a salt lick next to my toothbrush would work as well.)
He is a pharmacist by training who has spent the better part of his career educating the public about underlying science supporting many natural healing solutions, and exposing the toxicity of many common healing strategies. Part encyclopedia and part stand-up comedian, he talks fast and thinks even quicker, making him an ideal guest for our show..
