Spaceport rising, tentacles probing, nano sensoring ,bot nets descending, Tunisian freedom surprising, Eyeborg shares his family, Sponge Bob spares a little intelligence..

Listen Now Dr. Future Show 9.13.11

It is a big Dr. Future news week, with Dr. & Mrs. Future and co-host Michael Sigmon.  Have you been tracking solar activity lately?  Today a comet was consumed by the sun, with nary a CME.  And yesterday CME’s reared their massive torsos, flicking their gaseous tongues at us and the rest of their surrounds.

Highlights include an update on solar activity, botnets controlled a toy helicpoter, new nanosensors for fighting cancer, tentacle tech, Tunisian revolution tech and Sponge Bob’s impact on your intelligence.

Inventing the Holodeck, fungally created biofuel, Apple black ops, the latest adventures of Agent Nada..

Listen Now Dr. Future 9.6.11

It’s September, the summer is almost over, but not before we share with you the magic of our Labor Day weekend.  At half an hour into the show we have a surprise visit from Agent Nada, who regales us with tales from Harbin Hot Springs and the venerable Women’s Herbal gathering..warning..not for the strictly nerdy…she delves into female coming of age ceremonies with her daughter  that are quite heart warming..\

And geeky we do get, with our analysis of the collaboration between the SFPD and Apple Security over the lost iPhone 5, creating biofuel from organic waste via a fungal enzymes, the significance of the Starz/Netflix divorce, and this week’s cautionary tale- space junk!!

Videoing in Public Places, Hurricane Intelligence actions, new green funerals, diamond planet, Virtual Personaforms

Listen Now Dr. Future 8.30.11

With guest futurist Greg Panos in the studio today, anthing can and will happen.  Top of the news is the story of being able to film cops in action in public places, a contentious issue that brings forth the First Amendment.  Meanwhile, our Intel agencies are doing their bit to clean up Hurricane Irene, and a new more green method of funerals is being tried in Florida.  

Greg delves deeply into the idea of your own evolving personal presence in cyberspace, your “personal personnaform.” To both illustrate and entertain,  Dr. Future experiments with a few synthetic voices doing the news.

It’s also the week of Burning Man, and we have  a live report from 13-year old Ciaran Farley, his first burn, in the midst of Black Rock City in Nevada. We also hear from John Graham, who is making sure we have a live feed 24/7 from the playa.  That and a diamond planet, a UCSC Galaxy Simulator, the biggest data drive ever, and human powered tech, all on the show’s link’s page..

Predictions, Pre-crime and the iP/hone/pad App Phenomenon

Listen Now Dr. Future 8.23.11

 It’s funny how the idea of ‘prediction’ has been so prevalent today.   First, was a demo of an alien oracle, recently created by this week’s guest, Santa Cruz’s own iPhone/iPad app developer Mark Buchanon.  Then there were the stories, today’s stories, beginning with the use of what’s known as ‘predictive policing’ by the Santa Cruz Police Dept. And there is the National Institutes of Health’s use of new computational software that allows the predicting of new uses for old drugs. And let us not forget Stanford researcher’s new method for predicting dangerous solar flares!  All covered in our news segment..

And for the second segment of our show, programmer Mark Buchanon educates us about the entreprenurial opportunies in developing iPhone/iPad apps, a billion dollar industry that did not exist a scant 3 years ago!  Oh yes, that er, “Alien Oracle’ app is pretty amazing, based on a visual trinary code, but not quite yet ready for primetime.. soon..

Denise Gallant, video pioneer, discusses artistry in video now, her illustrious career, and what's next in the world of media.

Listen Now Dr. Future Show 8.16.11

In Dr. Future News today, we discuss the amazing Montreal Amphi-bus, the Google acquisiton of Motorola, Anonymous’s plans to destroy Facebook, breakthroughs in biofuel production, hybrid hydrogen power systems for your roof, and flash mobs shutting down BART stations.

In the second part of the show, we feature Denise Gallant, a Santa Cruz video pioneer who has spanned to analog to digital chasm with great aplomb.  A graduate of UCLA Film School, she has worked on many projects with the big boyz, i.e.,  ABC, CBS, NBC, helped pioneer the VJ scene by co-creating and operating for years one fo the first video synthesizers, pioneered special effects for Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo, Tangerine Dream and Supertramp, and is currently a board member of the Santa Cruz Film Festival, and media teacher at Cabrillo College.

We share a rousing discussion and interview with her, covering some of the latest and greatest projects and trends in the media world.