In this episode, Russell Foltz-Smith introduces his long-time friend and intellectual collaborator, Dr. Abigail Devereaux. The episode explains how their conversations over the years have inspired Russell in his personal and professional life, including his approach to building businesses, creating products, and making art. They discuss how Dr. Devereaux has been able to take some of their shared unconventional ideas into wider circles and push people to think differently. Dr. Devereaux's varied life experiences are wonderfully intertwined with her unique perspective. This episode is a personal and inspiring conversation about unconventional thinking and pushing the boundaries of what is possible.  

Website for Dr. Abigail Devereaux: https://www.abigaildevereaux.com/

Aubrey is a long time entrepreneur and technologies finding himself often asking “how can i make this technology more generous?”  An adulthood that started in studying semiotics and ventured through the dotcom heydays resulted in a wide view of what basis technology can be for a giving creative fount.   Aubrey introduces Russ and the pod listeners to the idea of the Lazy Engine of literature and suggests how that might help us think about the possibilities for space technologies. He also blows Russ’ mind about the true source of the Walt Disney Castle. 

Websites for Aubrey Anderson:  

https://ncc.la/ 

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This episode wanders around notions of mythology, history, religion and the semiotics of NewSpace (and related technology epochs).  What's the interplay between what we build, what we sense, what we believe and what we justify in response to all that? Can we actually reframe space into a wider notion? Is religion a bigger, broader, more reluctant to own frame for space? Who's or what isn't getting a fair share of the NewSpace?  To what extent are religion and space travel the same journey for a human? Are we doomed to repeat a religious narrative with all we do?  Can we do space more like the great Jazz Artist Sun Ra, and less like how we’ve been marketed to for the last 40 years?  

Website for Mary-Jane Rubenstein: https://www.maryjanerubenstein.com