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Listen Now to Dr. Future Show 2.28.2017 March is upon us, the weather is still wintry here, but the future keeps rolling forward.  Thought-controlled drone racing?  Nice proof-of-concept event, but a long way to go..Autonomous trucks, however, are rolling out with yet another company in the fray, this one EMBARK, a startup by two Canadian 21-year-old entrepreneurs.   On the space frontier, we are launching a way cool probe to our Sun, Solar Probe Plus, to orbit a mere 4 million miles from the flaming orb. Designed to withstand temperatures of 1500 degrees F, Solar Probe Plus will help us explore mysteries, like how the ‘surface’ of the sun is 11,000 degrees F, and the ‘atmosphere’ is 3500 MILLION degrees F! Why such a big temperature differential? No one really knows..and no one really knows what happened to the mysterious Hydrogen metal seen in recent Harvard experiments.. And this week, we look at some of the new high tech toys coming online..Catepillar coders, smart doll houses, Barbie holograms..  It’s getting fun now!

Listen Now to Dr. Future Show 2.21.2017 With all the talk these days about bringing jobs back to America, and Bill Gates talking about taxing robots, we catch up with our favorite Artificial Intelligence researchers from Canada. Drs. Eliot Handelman and Andie Sigler, with their Cartoon Network associate, Casey X, give us an update on their latest thinking about AI.  What do humans do if smart robots are doing all the work?  Eliot suggests our species become more focused on creativity, fostering the divine spark within us, something the robots cannot grasp or conceive of as yet. Andie suggests we see the rise of the machines as an extension rather than of foe of ourselves. The question of jobs and education is broached as well by Mrs. Future, who helps in the elucidatation of these topics with our erudite (and fun) guests. Enjoy! L-R Casey X, Dr.Mrs. Future, Drs. Eliot Handelman, Andie Sigler

Listen Now to Future News 2.21.2017 Lots of great news this week, from a new AI on Samsung gear to getting the robots to pay taxes.  If that idea takes off, you can thank Bill Gates for that!  For today’s show we spoke with Kendall Stevens, about the upcoming Cinequest Film and VR Festival in Silcon Valley next week.  We are particularly curious about how cinematic storytellers will be using the new medium of VR and 360 video, and asked Kendall to tell us a bit about the productions they will be featuring.  We finish up the news segment of our show with a fresh report from Dr. Bruce Damer on his presentation to a gathering of 260 scientists at the Jet Propulsion Labs last week, deciding where the next Martian rover will land to look for signs of life. Bruce was happy to report that his team’s choice of Gusev Crater is one of the final three choices that the NASA scientists as a whole have chosen, originally from a field of over 30 landing sites. If his site wins, they will be looking for life in an old Martian hot springs, back when it was warm.  Enjoy!

Listen Now to Future News 2.14.2017 Wow, 104 sats in one launch, a new ‘world’ record! And just what are all these sats doing? Well, 88 of them are from Planet Labs, whose first major mission is to image all the Earth’s land mass every single day! Also in space news, the JPL Mars team have narrowed down the 2020 rover landing sites from 30 potential locations to three, as the best candidates for discovering any form of microbial life on the Red Planet. This is exciting for us as one of the final locations is one being promulgated by a Dr. Future Show regular, Dr. Bruce Damer, who was presenting to the JPL team this past weekend.  Lots of other news this week we think is worthy of your attention, including an opportunity for you to discover a new planet!  Enjoy.. The Planet Lab’s Dove 3 Flock before being launched into orbit

Listen Now to The Blarney’s For our Valentine show this week we bring you love from physicist/penny whistler/poet Nick Herbert with musician August O’Connor.  Long-time Santa Cruz County residents and lovers of Nature, they share with us some whimsical prose, poetry and live music honoring the emotion of love.  And if you are interested in some great walks in nature and semi-secret places to make out outside, keep listening!   If you enjoy their countenance and music, the full complement of the Blarney’s will be playing this Sunday, Feb. 19, at the Broadway Theater in the Santa Cruz Art League, from 5 - 7p.m. Their music can be previewed here. And Nick’s poetry heard on today’s show can be read at his blog, Quantum Tantra. Enjoy! August O’Connor and Nick Herbert of the Blarney’s, a Santa Cruz Irish music band

Listen Now to The Dr. Future Show 2.07.2017 This show is especially unique in that we broadcasted from our home at Future Peak in the Santa Cruz Mountains . A tree across our road kept us from KSCO studios this week, and just as well, for the commute during the storm was long and slow. They drove bumper-to-bumper on slick roads while we enjoyed dinner, sharing the news of the day, relaxing by the fire, all that good stuff. Well, there was also one of Dr. Future’s brothers, who joined us for a rare dinner..and in the end that worked out well too.. Did you seen the half time show of the Superbowl? Lady Ga Ga’s performance was just, wow! Of particular interest to our inner geek was the lightshow performed by Intel drone pilots that enhanced part Lady Gaga’s epic show! There were also lots of phone calls sprinkled throughtout this week’s thoughtful and entertaining dialog on the topics listed.  One caller, ‘Daddy’, spoke of German experiments to turn Hydrogen, the most abundant gas in the Universe, into a metal!  And Sam, our host at the station this week, was ready to attend clown school, as we update our human skills for the growing robot revolution.  If you can’t beat’em, make’em laugh!  Remember The Menagerie, the Star Trek story where we are introduced to Captain Pike, who was captain of the Enterprise before Kirk? We finally have the techology that allows a ‘locked in’ person like Pike to communicate with the rest of us! The good news is that the locked in people interviewed  say that they are happy to be alive (and can’t wait for the alien telempathic VR that Captain Pike so enjoys) And why should we care about what Steve Bannon thinks? Largely because of his relationship with the President, he’s helping to steer the ship known as America, and we’d like to see his navigational charts and where we are on them! Enjoy..

Listen Now to Dr. Future Show 1.31.2017 This week we have Dr. Bruce Damer in the studio, on his birthday, discussing his latest projects regarding the Dr. Bruce Damer on The Dr. Future Show at KSCO Santa Cruz, CAnext Mars Lander and origin of life locations.  Also joining us for commentary on Future News and discussion of Silicon Valley immigration issues is Ali Mohammed, a high tech professional working on a visa. What can be done, how can this whole situation be upgraded for us all?  Our guests share some great ideas, and are looking for your feedback..Ali can be reached at [email protected] And thanks to the technical team at KSCO, you can actually watch this week’s show at https://www.facebook.com/pg/KSCOSantaCruz/videos/ Enjoy!  

Listen Now to The Dr. Future Show 1.24.2017 Indeed as onward march of the Internet continues to evolve all things it touches, classic radio stations like KSCO are being impacted as well.  If we can achieve 100x larger audiences for an additional cost of next to nothing, why not?  Soon, many shows on KSCO will be broadcast not just over AM/FM and an audio stream, but also via Facebook Live and Youtube..Luigi talks a little about this at the beginning of the second hour. Looks like Elon Musk was talking to Trump not just about the future of manufacturing, but about boring tunnels under LA!  Must be part of the new US Infrastructure plan.. We also speak to Rachael Goodman and Cosmic Joe Jordan about their new KSCO show, Planet Watch, Sunday’s at 2 p.m.  We like their brief description: “A new exploration of what’s going down in our part of the universe and what we can do about it: SOLUTIONS to big problems facing humanity today. Plus fun tidbits on astronomy, weather, earth and sky phenomena, and “cosmic relief”! ” Enjoy.. Planet Watch with Cosmic Joe Jordan and Rachael Goodman Sundays KSCO 2 p.m.

Listen Now to The Dr. Future Show 1.17.2017 We have a jam-packed show for you, with special guest Swami Beyondananda helping us to see beyond the inauguration, thanks to his being struck by enlightening during a brainstorm. If you like the Swami’s perspective,  whose favorite yoga pose is tongue-in-cheek, he will be performing in Aptos, CA this coming Friday, January 20, inauguration day. Let’s start this new cycle with some humor!   And to bring us up to date on the latest and greatest gadgets of our time, we have a report from free-lancers Greg Panos and Richard Cray, who were on the scene of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, in Las Vegas.  Attended by over 200,000 people, CES the the premiere place to see what’s new and what’s cool in the world of virtual reality,  autonomous cars, drones, and smart underwear.   Enjoy the show!  

Listen Now to Future News 1.04.2017 Lots of great things to look forward to in 2017 and a few things to which we must say goodbye..2016 was tough for many and we are hoping that this new year, with it’s new president, will be as great as we can imagine, plus some great gadgets for us to play with!  Enjoy!