Future Now

Allan Lundell

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    006 WTFuture - VIDEO podcast - New Living Expo, Ancient Gears, Mitochondrial upgrades, The Cult of Mythos and Telepathic Walk-ins

    In this delightfully chaotic episode of What the Future, the hosts dive headfirst into the weird and wonderful, kicking things off with a recap of the multi-generational New Living Expo. It is a wild ride through reports of impending ET contact, channeling dragon energy, “walk-in” aliens treating human bodies like cosmic Airbnbs, and a surprisingly talented rapping event producer.   However, the mystical vibes quickly collide with technological paranoia as the crew debates “Mythos,” a god-like hacker AI from Anthropic, capable of effortlessly dismantling and repairing any operating system. Depending on which host you ask, this autonomous AI is either the ultimate catalyst for pushing humanity toward a telepathic, secret-free utopia or a privacy-destroying Skynet destined to replace every app on your smartphone.  The futuristic musings do not stop there, pivoting from inner space to outer space with news of the Curiosity rover stumbling upon the nitrogen and sulfur-bearing organic building blocks of life in Mars’ Gale Crater. Back on Earth, the hosts geek out over the bio-hacking potential of mitochondrial transplants and freshly accessible peptides like MOTS-c, which act as tiny cellular batteries to potentially reverse disease and cellular degradation.   Finally, with a little help from their resident AI assistant Ara, they unravel the ancient mystery of the Antikythera Mechanism—a 2,000-year-old, 26-gear Greek analog computer likely forged in Rhodes to track a 354-day lunar calendar. From alien hybrids to ancient gadgets and AI overlords, it is a whirlwind tour of everything past, present, and entirely out of this world. Enjoy!

    1 h 2 min
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    006 WTFuture - Audio Podcast - New Living Expo, Ancient Gears, Mitochondrial upgrades, The Cult of Mythos and Telepathic Walk-ins

    In this delightfully chaotic episode of What the Future, the hosts dive headfirst into the weird and wonderful, kicking things off with a recap of the multi-generational New Living Expo. It is a wild ride through reports of impending ET contact, channeling dragon energy, “walk-in” aliens treating human bodies like cosmic Airbnbs, and a surprisingly talented rapping event producer.   However, the mystical vibes quickly collide with technological paranoia as the crew debates “Mythos,” a god-like hacker AI from Anthropic, capable of effortlessly dismantling and repairing any operating system. Depending on which host you ask, this autonomous AI is either the ultimate catalyst for pushing humanity toward a telepathic, secret-free utopia or a privacy-destroying Skynet destined to replace every app on your smartphone.  The futuristic musings do not stop there, pivoting from inner space to outer space with news of the Curiosity rover stumbling upon the nitrogen and sulfur-bearing organic building blocks of life in Mars’ Gale Crater. Back on Earth, the hosts geek out over the bio-hacking potential of mitochondrial transplants and freshly accessible peptides like MOTS-c, which act as tiny cellular batteries to potentially reverse disease and cellular degradation.   Finally, with a little help from their resident AI assistant Ara, they unravel the ancient mystery of the Antikythera Mechanism—a 2,000-year-old, 26-gear Greek analog computer likely forged in Rhodes to track a 354-day lunar calendar. From alien hybrids to ancient gadgets and AI overlords, it is a whirlwind tour of everything past, present, and entirely out of this world. Enjoy!

    1 h 2 min
  3. 18 AVR.

    005 WTFuture005 Audio Podcast - WTFuture - Project Glasswing and Mythos AI, Rebooting the Immune System, Stunning Artemis Lunar Observations, the arrival of the Replicator

    Video podcast: https://youtu.be/vAat0adwnnE or https://futurenowshow.podbean.com/ Audio only: https://futurepeak.net/audio/005_WTFuture_v1.0_audio.mp3 The “What the Future” podcast crew dives straight into the “spaghetti brain” chaos of setting up their new home studio equipment before launching into a whirlwind of mind-bending technological leaps. They explore how “neuro-symbolic AI” is finally teaching robots to break problems down logically like humans do, which slashes energy consumption a hundredfold while significantly boosting accuracy. So, just maybe, the AI’s won’t need nearly so much energy to run.. The hosts also blast off to the Moon, highlighting how having actual human eyeballs on the Artemis mission debunked flat orbital data to reveal bizarre magnetic “suntan” anomalies like Reiner Gamma. Back on Earth, they marvel at Ligand Forge, a biotech AI that pumps out targeted drug candidates tens of thousands of times faster than older models, promising a future of personalized “Star Trek replicators” for medicine and groundbreaking CAR-T therapies that simply reboot the human immune system. However, the absolute showstopper of the episode is the terrifying yet thrilling arrival of Mythos AI, an Anthropic system so ridiculously powerful it can uncover vulnerabilities and hack every computer operating system on the planet in mere minutes. Its existence has triggered a desperate six-month global cyber-sprint where tech giants like Microsoft are actually utilizing Mythos itself to patch thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities before adversaries can use similar super-intelligence to drain the global banking system of trillions. Despite these apocalyptic stakes and the wild prediction that AI agents will soon replace 99% of white-collar jobs, the hosts remain incredibly optimistic. They argue that we are rapidly hurtling toward a society of “universal abundant income,” where personal AI CEOs will run millions of highly profitable one-person companies while we sleep, finally freeing humanity from a scarcity mindset so we can just enjoy life and ponder the greater universe. Or something like that..Enjoy!

    53 min
  4. 18 AVR. ·  VIDÉO

    005 WTFuture - Video Podcast - Project Glasswing and Mythos AI, Rebooting the Immune System, Stunning Artemis Lunar Observations, the arrival of the Replicator

    The “What the Future” podcast crew dives straight into the “spaghetti brain” chaos of setting up their new home studio equipment before launching into a whirlwind of mind-bending technological leaps. They explore how “neuro-symbolic AI” is finally teaching robots to break problems down logically like humans do, which slashes energy consumption a hundredfold while significantly boosting accuracy.  So, just maybe, the AI’s won’t need nearly so much energy to run.. The hosts also blast off to the Moon, highlighting how having actual human eyeballs on the Artemis mission debunked flat orbital data to reveal bizarre magnetic “suntan” anomalies like Reiner Gamma. Back on Earth, they marvel at Ligand Forge, a biotech AI that pumps out targeted drug candidates tens of thousands of times faster than older models, promising a future of personalized “Star Trek replicators” for medicine and groundbreaking CAR-T therapies that simply reboot the human immune system. However, the absolute showstopper of the episode is the terrifying yet thrilling arrival of Mythos AI, an Anthropic system so ridiculously powerful it can uncover vulnerabilities and hack every computer operating system on the planet in mere minutes.   Its existence has triggered a desperate six-month global cyber-sprint where tech giants like Microsoft are actually utilizing Mythos itself to patch thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities before adversaries can use similar super-intelligence to drain the global banking system of trillions.   Despite these apocalyptic stakes and the wild prediction that AI agents will soon replace 99% of white-collar jobs, the hosts remain incredibly optimistic. They argue that we are rapidly hurtling toward a society of “universal abundant income,” where personal AI CEOs will run millions of highly profitable one-person companies while we sleep, finally freeing humanity from a scarcity mindset so we can just enjoy life and ponder the greater universe. Or something like that..Enjoy!

    53 min
  5. 10 AVR. ·  VIDÉO

    004 WTFuture Video Podcast - The Future Beyond the Fall: Earthquakes, Healing, and Galactic Identity

    Welcome to the wildest, weirdest week so far, where a 4.6 magnitude California earthquake literally shook up our hosts’ “synchronicity filing system,” turning their massive media archive into an obstacle course of decapitated Bambi ornaments and long-lost chakra DVDs. While internet trolls might call them “hoarders beyond borders,” the crew prefers to view the chaos as a brilliant way to uncover buried treasures, proving that sometimes you just need tectonic plates to reorganize your living room. When they aren’t cleaning up broken mirrors or joking about an Aries German and an Aries Russian astrologer physically head butting each other, they are exploring “cosmo energetics” through 50-minute standing meditations to tune into their bodies, or magically conquering Disneyland with a broken foot on a rented mobility scooter. But the future isn’t just about localized tremors; the team also dives deep into the accidental open-sourcing of Anthropic’s AI code, marveling at how new offline AI models can now run directly on an iPhone in airplane mode. This pocket-sized supercomputer basically acts like a Star Trek universal translator without ever needing a Wi-Fi connection. As if rogue offline AI isn’t enough, the hosts decode the cosmos by predicting how Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites could eventually make traditional cell carriers extinct. They also track a barrage of meteor fireballs ostensibly dropped by 3I/ATLAS and investigate a mysterious gigahertz radio flare from the Cygnus X-3 quasar that might just scramble your home router!  Between discovering that Earth was formed from local “planetessimals” and saying bon voyage to their friend Michael on his cross-country road trip to Georgia, it’s just another beautifully chaotic week on the podcast. Enjoy!

    1 h 20 min
  6. 10 AVR.

    004 WTFuture Audio Podcast: The Future Beyond the Fall: Earthquakes, Healing, and Galactic Identity

    Welcome to the wildest, weirdest week so far, where a 4.6 magnitude California earthquake literally shook up our hosts’ “synchronicity filing system,” turning their massive media archive into an obstacle course of decapitated Bambi ornaments and long-lost chakra DVDs. While internet trolls might call them “hoarders beyond borders,” the crew prefers to view the chaos as a brilliant way to uncover buried treasures, proving that sometimes you just need tectonic plates to reorganize your living room. When they aren’t cleaning up broken mirrors or joking about an Aries German and an Aries Russian astrologer physically head butting each other, they are exploring “cosmo energetics” through 50-minute standing meditations to tune into their bodies, or magically conquering Disneyland with a broken foot on a rented mobility scooter. But the future isn’t just about localized tremors; the team also dives deep into the accidental open-sourcing of Anthropic’s AI code, marveling at how new offline AI models can now run directly on an iPhone in airplane mode. This pocket-sized supercomputer basically acts like a Star Trek universal translator without ever needing a Wi-Fi connection. As if rogue offline AI isn’t enough, the hosts decode the cosmos by predicting how Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites could eventually make traditional cell carriers extinct. They also track a barrage of meteor fireballs ostensibly dropped by 3I/ATLAS and investigate a mysterious gigahertz radio flare from the Cygnus X-3 quasar that might just scramble your home router!  Between discovering that Earth was formed from local “planetessimals” and saying bon voyage to their friend Michael on his cross-country road trip to Georgia, it’s just another beautifully chaotic week on the podcast. Enjoy!

    1 h 20 min
  7. 7 AVR. ·  VIDÉO

    003 WTFuture (Video Podcast) - To Deep Space and Radiator Springs: Astronauts, Consciousness, and Disney Rides.

    In this episode, we dive into an exhilarating journey through the cosmos and the cutting edge of technology where we explore the frontier of human potential. You'll be captivated by discussions on the Artemis 2 mission, which just sent the first Canadian astronaut on a breathtaking figure-eight path around the far side of the moon. The conversation then transitions into Elon Musk's ambitious "Terrafab" vision for a multi-planetary, space-based civilization powered by an unprecedented abundance of self-manufactured AI chips. The hosts explore how this technological leap, combined with personal AI "claw bots" to handle mundane daily chores and the rise of decentralized energy systems, could usher in a Star Trek-style "abundance economy". This episode invites you to imagine a world where advanced technology frees humanity to pursue its highest passions and elevate civilization without the constraints of scarcity. The magic doesn't stop at the edge of the solar system, as the podcast brilliantly grounds these futuristic dreams in a heartwarming celebration of human creativity during Mrs. Future’s Big 65 birthday trip to Disneyland. You'll feel like you're riding shotgun on a mobility scooter as we share some delightful clips and stories from our adventure, exploring everything from the nostalgic, steam-powered charm of the Mark Twain Riverboat and Walt Disney's early audio-animatronics to the high-speed thrills of Radiator Springs Racers and the Buzz Lightyear shooting gallery. Comparing the park's mesmerizing, illuminated night parades and inter-dimensional dancer costumes to a "professional Burning Man," we are reminded of the immense power of shared joy, family connection, and collaborative art. Tune in to experience a perfect blend of visionary foresight and pure, unadulterated fun that will leave you feeling uniquely uplifted and inspired about the world we are creating. Enjoy!

    1 h 5 min
  8. 7 AVR.

    003 WTFuture - To Deep Space and Radiator Springs: Astronauts, Consciousness, and Disney Rides.

    In this episode, we dive into an exhilarating journey through the cosmos and the cutting edge of technology where we explore the frontier of human potential. You'll be captivated by discussions on the Artemis 2 mission, which just sent the first Canadian astronaut on a breathtaking figure-eight path around the far side of the moon. The conversation then transitions into Elon Musk's ambitious "Terrafab" vision for a multi-planetary, space-based civilization powered by an unprecedented abundance of self-manufactured AI chips. The hosts explore how this technological leap, combined with personal AI "claw bots" to handle mundane daily chores and the rise of decentralized energy systems, could usher in a Star Trek-style "abundance economy". This episode invites you to imagine a world where advanced technology frees humanity to pursue its highest passions and elevate civilization without the constraints of scarcity. The magic doesn't stop at the edge of the solar system, as the podcast brilliantly grounds these futuristic dreams in a heartwarming celebration of human creativity during Mrs. Future’s Big 65 birthday trip to Disneyland. You'll feel like you're riding shotgun on a mobility scooter as we share some delightful clips and stories from our adventure, exploring everything from the nostalgic, steam-powered charm of the Mark Twain Riverboat and Walt Disney's early audio-animatronics to the high-speed thrills of Radiator Springs Racers and the Buzz Lightyear shooting gallery. Comparing the park's mesmerizing, illuminated night parades and inter-dimensional dancer costumes to a "professional Burning Man," we are reminded of the immense power of shared joy, family connection, and collaborative art. Tune in to experience a perfect blend of visionary foresight and pure, unadulterated fun that will leave you feeling uniquely uplifted and inspired about the world we are creating. Enjoy!

    1 h 5 min

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