47 Future Now - Mobile Aloha Robot debuts, Peregrine Lander in Trouble, iPhone skydives 16K feet, Cool CES Gadgets, Transparent TV, CAR-T cancer treatment breakthrough

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It’s 2024 and time for the annual Consumer Electronics Show, a massive techie spectacle we used to attend every year.  These days, everything there is online and in many ways more accessible to braving the crowds in Las Vegas. New display tech was used to turned the famous Luxor pyramid hotel into a giant Dorito chip!  Is nothing sacred?  As we recorded this week’s show, CES had just opened and we discuss some of our favorite items from this year’s crop of shiny new gadgets.  But before we delve into CES world we look at Stanford/Google’s new robot, the Mobile Aloha, a machine that comes closer than ever to performing common household tasks well, like cooking and cleaning. And almost as amazing is the survival of an iPhone falling 16 thousand feet without a scratch. And even more incredible is a new CAR-T treatment for cancer worth checking out! Enjoy..

The Luxor pyramid is now a giant orange Dorito

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Lots of News to share this week, including a special report from Mrs. Future on the Santa Cruz Wisdom Council coverage of our local homeless situation.  It was a great start to solving an age old issue, and I’ll think you’ll enjoy her presentation. 

It appears our very own Milky Way  has made its way to the present by munching on smaller galaxies, but ‘eating’ means something very different on the galactic scale.  Bobby Wilder joins us for discussing a number of other stories this week, including IBM’s quest to use their new quantum computers to build a better battery from commonly available ingredients.  We also discuss the latest and greatest from the amazing Consumer Electronics Show 2020 in Las Vegas.  Enjoy!

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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!

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Lots of stories to share this week, with our radio active crew of John Monahan and Marian Sun McNamee, aka Mrs. Future. For starters, the Consumer Electronics Show is in full swing right now, with a whole pavilion dedicated to Drones,  another to 3D printers, another to cars,  personal transporters, etc.   Mercedes-Benz made a big splash by  debuted their new autonomous concept car at CES, bascially  a vision of the traveling living room, not unlike a luxurious train cabin. In their protoype car, driving is an option, and all seats are fully 360 degree rotatable. As Charlie pointed out to me at the beginning of today’s show, “in the early days of automobiles, the driver was on the outside of the cab.”  And stage coaches before that.  And flying carpets before that. Well, maybe not, but you know what I mean. So, a mobile social space? Sounds good!

The recent release of the heavily redacted CIA  report on the U2 and SR-71 spyplane is also quite fascinating, delving deeply into the top secret  world of the Cold War,   the scintillating history of aerial surveillance,  the creation of our  amazing  spy planes and a compelling expanation for  many UFO sitings by pilots. (Blue book officials were not allowed to divulge info of U2 and SR-71 flight paths).

We also discuss a different way to view  Artificial Intelligence, as suggested by Ray Kurzweil in a recent article in Time.   Fear the machine?.   Good luck with that..

Mercedes-Benz F 015: An Autonomous “Living Room On Wheels”

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This is the week of the great Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where the future of our favorite new gadgets, tools and toys is often revealed.  We share a few of our favorites with you so far..We especially love the new 3D printers being revealed, and there is a crop circle worth mentioning…