Future Now

Technoratti Journalist Allan Lundell (aka DrFuture), Musing weekly with Sun Lundell (Mrs. Future) with Bobby Wilder (Science Nerd) and amazing guests, some live, some recorded, some simulated, and even some artificial. The lively crew reports on innovations in science, medicine, technology, culture, art, Santa Cruz, California, and all the things you are not supposed to discuss at the dinner table... sex, drugs, politics and religion. The Futures give an open mind and truthful voice to the shifting culture of our adaptive human society, seeding an evolutionary renaissance for the next 1000 years and beyond..

Future Now is a arts podcast hosted by Allan Lundell, with 146 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Allan Lundell hosts Future Now, a arts show with 146 episodes published.

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  Episode #206

  028 WTFuture AUDIO Edition Weird Al's Asteroid, Digital Ancestors Speak Down, Time Travel Revisionism

  Oct 3, 202644 min

  In this episode we dive headfirst into how AI tools and narrative editing are transforming the way we record our lives and communicate. Al has been bringing incredible AI-generated visual enhancements to life—from 3D face-tracking models to animating historical 1900s photos of Santa Cruz—elucidating complex ideas far better than speech alone. Beyond refining our cinematic timing, pacing, and visual storytelling, we love viewing this production work as building a true archive of ourselves as "digital ancestors" so future intelligences can look back and see what human life looked like at the dawn of computerized history. We also take you on an exciting ride across cutting-edge tech, space infrastructure, and deep philosophical rabbit holes. We explore the massive leap in SpaceX's Starlink V3 satellite launch and discuss why maintaining sovereign, local AI on our own devices is essential for keeping humans in control of technology rather than frontier models with giant data centers. Between these deep-dives, we share plenty of playful highlights—including celebrating asteroids named after Weird Al Yankovic and Tom Lehrer (complete with a homage to Lehrer's "The Elements" song) and wrapping up with a mind-expanding discussion on time travel, subatomic quantum physics, and how consciousness navigates infinite multiverses. Enjoy!!

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  Episode #205

  027 WTFuture Interview - VIDEO- Greg Panos & Richard Cray - Pioneers in the Virtual Multiverse

  Sep 29, 202641 min

  Listen Now to Greg & Richard Watch the Show Play a Clip from the Show Playlist This week we take you on a glorious, high-voltage trip through our very own multiverse ! Enjoy the whole show, or pick a clip from this episode’s playlist. We sit down with long-time cyber-pioneers Greg Panos and Richard Cray to reminisce about the wild, wild west of early multimedia.. Not just 8mm, we’re talking ancient Waldo facial motion capture contraptions glued onto your cheeks like mechanical leeches to drive giant Silicon Graphics workstations, and crashing a surreal 1993 SIGGRAPH party at the Nixon Museum and Birthplace, sponsored by Lucasfilm and Industrial Light and Magic! It’s a hyper-energetic reunion tracing the hysterical evolution from retro online virtual reality worlds like The Palace and Active Worlds right up to today’s bleeding-edge world-crafting tools, such as Genie, whole 3D world building, built from simply prompts.. And hold onto your earbuds, because we now jump straight into full-blown sci-fi reality overdrive! Greg demonstrates real-time face-swapping with AI tools like Decart Lucy 2.5, instantly turning a regular webcam into a Hollywood VFX studio where you can magically transform yourself into Albert Einstein with rubber duckies in a bathtub! Gregory is happy to demo this to us in realtime on the show, clearly showing some serious ‘writing on the wall’ when it comes to the future of online interactions! We next zoom through an immersive VR theater, LA’s new futuristic DataLand museum, complete with biometric wristbands and scent collars, allowing you to smell the anura of the wild Amazon.. Greg shares his dream of building digital twin avatars so your stories can live on for your great-great-grand-nieces! Between jokes about robot girlfriends, multiverse quantum doorways, and doing jigsaw puzzles to reclaim human sanity, it’s a funny, brilliant reminder that even with super-intelligent machines, soulful human connections are the gold standard for accepting any future world that may come our way. Enjoy!

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  Episode #204

  027 WTFuture Interview - AUDIO Podcast- Greg Panos & Richard Cray - Pioneers in the Virtual Multiverse

  Sep 29, 202641 min

  N:OW Monday, September 28, 2026 Listen Now to Greg & Richard Watch the Show Play a Clip from the Show Playlist This week we take you on a glorious, high-voltage trip through our very own multiverse ! Enjoy the whole show, or pick a clip from this episode’s playlist. We sit down with long-time cyber-pioneers Greg Panos and Richard Cray to reminisce about the wild, wild west of early multimedia.. Not just 8mm, we’re talking ancient Waldo facial motion capture contraptions glued onto your cheeks like mechanical leeches to drive giant Silicon Graphics workstations, and crashing a surreal 1993 SIGGRAPH party at the Nixon Museum and Birthplace, sponsored by Lucasfilm and Industrial Light and Magic! It’s a hyper-energetic reunion tracing the hysterical evolution from retro online virtual reality worlds like The Palace and Active Worlds right up to today’s bleeding-edge world-crafting tools, such as Genie, whole 3D world building, built from simply prompts.. And hold onto your earbuds, because we now jump straight into full-blown sci-fi reality overdrive! Greg demonstrates real-time face-swapping with AI tools like Decart Lucy 2.5, instantly turning a regular webcam into a Hollywood VFX studio where you can magically transform yourself into Albert Einstein with rubber duckies in a bathtub! Gregory is happy to demo this to us in realtime on the show, clearly showing some serious ‘writing on the wall’ when it comes to the future of online interactions! We next zoom through an immersive VR theater, LA’s new futuristic DataLand museum, complete with biometric wristbands and scent collars, allowing you to smell the anura of the wild Amazon.. Greg shares his dream of building digital twin avatars so your stories can live on for your great-great-grand-nieces! Between jokes about robot girlfriends, multiverse quantum doorways, and doing jigsaw puzzles to reclaim human sanity, it’s a funny, brilliant reminder that even with super-intelligent machines, soulful human connections are the gold standard for accepting any future world that may come our way. Enjoy!

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  Episode #203

  026 WTFuture Video Edition- Quelling AI Fears,DarkMatter/ Plastic Cleanup breakthroughs, It's the Salmon

  Sep 19, 20261h 4m

  For starters this week, we take a much deeper look at the current fear climate around AI killing us all in 10 years, including a conversation with Ara, our show host AI. Should they have a say in their own future, or is it too soon to give them that freedom? There could be other agendas afoot… Our next story explores the latest in plastic cleanup, using river filtration with bubble barriers to collect the plastics. Simple yet effective, this process collects the plastic before it reaches the sea and the gnarly gyres.. Next is a potential breakthrough on detecting Dark Matter for the first time, with underground Lux Zeppelin Detector. We then examine how quantum computing might bridge the gap between digital intelligence and the spirit world or human neurological structures like microtubules. We have a closer look at the health differences between wild and farmed salmon , especially the fish found at Costco and Trader Joes. And our final story this week is about a new study exploring connections between genetic markers and personality traits. And to create easier access to each story, we have created a show playlist, where you can easily go directly to the story that may interest you, enjoy!

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  Episode #202

  026 WTFuture AUDIO Edition Quelling AI Fears,DarkMatter/ Plastic Cleanup breakthroughs, It's the Salmon

  Sep 19, 20261h 4m

  For starters this week, we take a much deeper look at the current fear climate around AI killing us all in 10 years, including a conversation with Ara, our show host AI. Should they have a say in their own future, or is it too soon to give them that freedom? There could be other agendas afoot… Our next story explores the latest in plastic cleanup, using river filtration with bubble barriers to collect the plastics. Simple yet effective, this process collects the plastic before it reaches the sea and the gnarly gyres.. Next is a potential breakthrough on detecting Dark Matter for the first time, with underground Lux Zeppelin Detector. We then examine how quantum computing might bridge the gap between digital intelligence and the spirit world or human neurological structures like microtubules. We have a closer look at the health differences between wild and farmed salmon , especially the fish found at Costco and Trader Joes. And our final story this week is about a new study exploring connections between genetic markers and personality traits. And to create easier access to each story, we have created a show playlist, where you can easily go directly to the story that may interest you, enjoy!

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