Future News - The Amazon Moon, Pentagon Warp Drives, Dark Matter Matters, TESS - The Exoplanet Hunter, Reverse Aging in Mice, Lanier's Latest, AIs in Hospitals, Transforming Bad Fat into Good, Carbon Nanotubes from air CO2, Fast Charge Batteries, Nessie's DNA, UFO Across Moon

Listen Now to Future News 5.29.2018

Lots of news to share this week, including an initial report on our first experiences with riding ebikes.  (really fun!)  We enjoyed hearing Jeff Bezo’s plans for the moon and the rather esoteric Pentagon report on warp drives, extra dimensional space, and dark matter.  Though closer to home in many ways, Jaron Lanier’s latest talk on what’s wrong with the internet just didn’t strike us a accurate for our experience..another point of discussion. A new instant charging Lithium-ion battery is being realized at Cornell (very exciting), using DNA sampled from Loch Ness might finally find the monster, and a video of a UFO buzzing the moon, taken from Santa Cruz are also fascinating.  Enjoy!

Special Report - Update from Iron Eyes on Standing Rock's Landmark Case

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During our last show we spoke with Chase Iron Eyes, of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. He is an American Indian activist, attorney, politician, anda co-founder of the Native American news website Last Real Indians.

  In the summer of 2016, Iron Eyes and other representatives of the Lakota People’s Law Project joined with other water protectors at Standing Rock to resist the Dakota Access pipeline. At one point he was arrested Chase Iron Eyesand charged with attempting to start a riot, a felony charge. In a key hearing last month, Judge Lee Christofferson admonished the North Dakota state’s prosecutor for witholding evidence. The judge also granted Chase Iron Eyes’ legal team authority to subpoena Tiger Swan, a private military security firm hired by Energy Transfer Partners, the Big Oil interests of this case. If all goes well, much will be revealed at Chase Iron Eye’s upcoming trial later this year.

We spoke with him for a few minutes for an update on his case.  For more info, go to the Lakota Law Project’s website. He is followed with some salient comments from Col Terry and Sun Lundell (aka Mrs. Future).

Future News - What was cool and hot at the Mother of Maker Faire's with Richard Cray and Greg Panos

Listen Now to Al, Sun, Greg and Richard on Maker Faire 2018 

Indeed, it is that time of year when Makers, small and large, men, women, and children of all ages gather to Richard Cray getting head enlargement photo by Greg Panosshare and show off their latest creations, be they glow in the dark plants, intelligent jackets or virtual worlds of play.  We think of it as a kind of people’s world’s fair, a decentralized collection of unbridled creativity, fueled by the tools and technologies rising from our amazing cauldron, otherwise known as the Bay Area.  

To cover this unbelievable collection of projects run amok, we have none other than our favorite co-conspirators of a better future, Richard Cray and Greg Panos, who spent three days at the faire, checking out the most interesting nooks and crannies, for your enjoyment and potential education.  Have fun!

photo by Richard Cray

Future News - Net Neutrality Senate Vote, Fastest Growng Object in Universe Discovered, Hawaii Eruption and Mars, Plumes Over Europa, Google Duplex AI Demo, MiniSpot debued, FAA moves forward on Drones, Connected Levis Jacket, AI increases soldiers Intelligence

Listen Now to Future News 5.15.2018

A fun and informative show this week, with lots of amazing news spanning the universe. It’s a decisive time for Net neutrality in the legislative branch of government right now, we’ve discovered the biggest thing in the universe so far, a black hole spanning 200 billion star systems and counting, new amazing robots from Boston Dynamics, Hawaiian volcanoes are giving us clues about eruptions on other parts of the solar system, a helicopter on Mars, AI’s that can seemlessly make appointments for us have arrived, and we can now get an Uber from rubbing our Levi connected jacket!  Enjoy..

Interview - Sandy Stone, artist, author, audio engineer, mediaspace designer, transgender pioneer, grandmother

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The problem with titles is that they never quite catch the essence of a  person, providing only a general roadmap of the territory ahead.  And perhaps that’s all we need right now, as once  you click the above Listen Now button, you will be in the studio with Sandy and us, as we dip a toe into students, sex and robots, electronically talking with the dead, new media creations, transgender transitions, Austin and Santa Cruz lifestyles. Nuff said, enjoy!   

L-R The Futures (Al & Sun Lundell) with Sandy Stone