025 WTFuture - Quantum Birthday, Sparks in the Fog, Agents in the Dark, The Golden Thread of Time

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Welcome back to the show, coming straight to you from our home studio in Boulder Creek alongside Bobby catching the perfect post-Labor Day weather in San Francisco! We kick things off this week celebrating our quantum physicist buddy Dr. Nick Herbert’s 90th birthday—a glorious intellectual ice cream social complete with champagne, dancing, and great chats with his friends, including sci-fi writer Rudy Rucker and scientist Beverly Rubik.

And for mind-bending science this week, we dive straight into how raindrops rolling across surfaces act like micro lightning bolts—generating static electrical charges that punch right through protective coatings via dielectric breakdown!

From electrified droplets, we look at the power of de-centrally shared minds, geeking out over Apple’s local Neural Processing Units (NPUs) that allow you to run up to 95% of your AI queries right on your phone or local Mac. We got super excited about clustering our machines using tools like Hermes and LM Studio over VPN tunnels, pooling VRAM with friends to run AI agent workflows while we sleep without paying steep cloud token fees.

To cap off our cosmic journey, we look at Agility Robotics’ humanoid factory robot, Digit, now in Fremont , NASA’s expanding Deep Space Network, and a SETI plan to search for micron-scale techno-signatures in lunar dust. We close with a morning poem by Sun, alongside a mythic memory of crafting the moon as a teacher of time..Enjoy!

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029 WTFuture Interview with Dr. Bruce Damer on the 30th anniversary of Earth to Avatars 96

Listen Now to 029 WTFuture Dr. Bruce Damer Watch Now 029 WTFuture Dr. Bruce Damer Playist of 029 WTFuture Dr. Bruce Damer In this episode, we interview Dr. Bruce Damer about the mid-1990s birth of mul...

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029 WTFuture Interview with Dr. Bruce Damer on the 30th anniversary of Earth to Avatars 96

11 Loka 42min

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

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 enhancement...

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

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...

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

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 ...

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

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 thei...

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