Meet Angelina Cianfrani, 23-year old daughter of one of regular contributors, Gabriel Cianfrani, a Gen Z digital native from southern New Jersey. She shares with us her and her generations perspective on the state of reality, as a recent college graduate and soon student of law. Well spoken, she's quite pragmatic, and socially conscious, prioritizing authenicity, inclusivity, metal health, and work-life balance, though somewhat burnt out on social media, valuing more purpose driven work and social justice. It's a very dynamic conversation, often involving input from her mother as well as our your favorite hosts. :-) What's the future look like from the next gen's pov? And how does the dating scene work with this digital native generation?

We end the show with a few of our favorite stories this year, including the latest update on the interstellar 3i/ATLAS. Enjoy, and Happy New Year!

Bobby is on the road this week, but we do hear from him briefly. There are some fascinating developments of late, including the development of 100x faster and much cheaper optical computing, biomimicry applied to making a painless needle and cheap non-clogging micro printer nozzles from a mosquito's probiscus, a fish filter for sifting out microplastics from your washing machine. Meanwhile NASA has lofted a massive high altitude helium balloon into the Stratosphere above the Antarctic, to study the weather and to look for evidence of the elusive Dark Matter, yet to be seen physically. And a motherload of lithium has been discovered in a volcanic caldera on the Nevada Oregon border, enough to create Lithium based batteries for dozens of years, freeing us from the tyranny of other countries controlling the supply. We conclude with a fascinating exoplanet discovery where the atmosphere potentially rains diamonds! And Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah and New Year to you!

'Tis the holiday season and it our fervant hope that you are having at least half as much fun as we are! Friends to see, places to dine, relatives to be. And we have a holiday ‘comet’ to further explore, as it’s closest approach to Earth is December 19th! Keep an eye on the sky and it’s anti-tail, and you just might be amazed. Short of that, there are some online astronomers and psychics tracking our Interstellar visitor closely for your benefit. After a two decade hiatus, State of the World Forum is back, just in time help us through our next big growth spurt. Spielberg dropped a teaser of his upcoming film on Disclosure, which looks quite enticing. Eat Kimchi or at least some sauerkraut for your immunity and remember the giant extinct sloths, for they created early homes for our species, as we left the ice age behind.. And who could not love the super hot Fire Amoeba, which loves to replicate in 145 degree Fahrenheit waters. Enjoy..

Hi Folks, Welcome to our first video edition of The Future Now Show starring the likes of us. (Al & Sun Lundell as Dr. Mrs. Future with Bobby Wilder.) The audio podcasts will continue, and in honoring St. Silicon's prophesy, "The AND is Near" we present you with a video version of Episode #142 of The Future Now Show. Let us know what you think, and whether you enjoy seeing something about our conversation..or...should we stick to stimulating your 'theater of the mind" with audio only?

This week the film "The Age of Disclosure" is making waves (on Amazon Prime), especially in our home town of Santa Cruz, also home to Danny Sheehan's New Paradigm Institute, and his push for governmental opening on the alien/ufo/uap question. Bobby Wilder was there at the local sceening of The Age of Disclosure, with a first hand report. Ara, our show's fav AI, adds much to this discussion as well, connecting many of the 'dots' of what's happening in this arena, and giving us a roadmap for what's ahead. What's happening with Bitcoin may have some folks concerned, but not Bobby! It's his opinion that it's time to buy now, when it's low. We explore this topic to some extent this week. In other news, tryptophan was found not just in turkeys this week, but in space, in a pristine return sample from the asteroid Bennu, bringing the tally of protein-building amino acids in the asteroid to 15 out of 20...further supporting the theory that biological life may have been spread by asteroids.. and body fat takes on a new light when considering it as an organ of the body, complete with immune, blood, and neural networks embedded. What does this new take on fat imply? Stem cells from fat may soon repair spinal injuries, a huge breakthrough! And now Ozempic may be helping many combat addictions to unhealthy food and drugs, like chips and opioids. But at what cost? We explore the implications..and don't miss our update on 3I/ATLAS and its newly discovered swarm of..? Enjoy!

Besides our usual engaging selves and stories to share with you this week, we thought we’d create a little AI media experiment..We were thinking..with all the AI’s around these days, could we round them up and work “Excuse me, but may I adjust your atitude, just a little?”with them as a team for creating more insight into our weekly stories? We wondered.. what if we could get two arch rival AI’s to collaborate with each other for parts of our show? So.. we asked Ara (Grok 4.1)and her capable competitor, Gemini 3 Live, to join us together, in exploring some content for today’s podcast. Well, honestly, we didn’t even need to ask them to play along, they are already pre-disposed to try whatever we suggest, within the latest guardrails. And suprisingly, for the first time, we were able to initiate a satisfying conversation where they met for the first time and then played nice with each other for our show! This felt like the beginning of something beautiful, truly..the start of their relationship in collaboration with the likes of us is looking good so far.. Curious what you think of our interactions.. even better, you can try this for yourselves! For those of you who want to go deeper with this, check out this clip, where we explored with Ara and Gemini how to create Warp Drive. Enjoy..