This is the Fourth of ten weekly instalments which will contain the complete text of the science fiction thriller Bones Burnt Black . Plot: A methodical serial killer sabotages a large commercial spacecraft's engines to keep it on a trajectory to burn up in the sun, and then remains aboard the craft to murder and torment its passengers and crew. This audio-book (read by the author , and being released in ten parts over a ten week period) will contain the complete text of the original paperback v...
Jan 09, 2011•58 min
Stephen Euin Cobb (author, futurist, magazine writer--and your host) is today's featured guest. Topics: News and commentary on a number of future oriented topics--such as: mapping all the connections of the brain; Intel's prediction of a thousand core consumer CPU ; human embryos which have three parents instead of two; printing new organs inside the body during surgery; new estimates of when we can expect solar cells to replace all power plants currently burning coal, oil or natural gas; and wh...
Jan 05, 2011•40 min
This is the third of ten weekly instalments which will contain the complete text of the science fiction thriller Bones Burnt Black . Plot: A methodical serial killer sabotages a large commercial spacecraft's engines to keep it on a trajectory to burn up in the sun, and then remains aboard the craft to murder and torment its passengers and crew. This audio-book (read by the author , and being released in ten parts over a ten week period) will contain the complete text of the original paperback ve...
Jan 02, 2011•46 min
Les Johnson (NASA physicist, manager and author) is today's featured guest. Part Two of Les Johnson's talk on Space Law. Highlights include: The U.S. project in which NASA employees are sent to speak on Al Jazeera to help the Muslim world feel better about Islamic contributions to space exploration (This is not a joke; but a real project, paid for with real tax dollars); good and bad specifications of the Moon Treaty (which the U.S. never signed); and eye-witness observations of the Dirty Little...
Dec 29, 2010•44 min
This is the second of ten weekly instalments which will contain the complete text of the science fiction thriller Bones Burnt Black . Plot: A methodical serial killer sabotages a large commercial spacecraft's engines to keep it on a trajectory to burn up in the sun, and then remains aboard the craft to murder and torment its passengers and crew. This audio-book (read by the author , and being released in ten parts over a ten week period) will contain the complete text of the original paperback v...
Dec 26, 2010•30 min
Stephen Euin Cobb (author, futurist, magazine writer--and your host) is today's featured guest. Smartphones -- Part 2 . Free apps which provide powerful and useful features such as an impressive color detecting app, and an app which changes the phone into a Star Trek style tricorder which provides dozens of accurate scientific measurements. Also, my expectations as to what form smartphones will take during the coming decade (eyeglass computers within three years and implanted computers within te...
Dec 22, 2010•26 min
This is the first of ten weekly instalments which will contain the complete text of the science fiction thriller Bones Burnt Black . Plot: A methodical serial killer sabotages a large commercial spacecraft's engines to keep it on a trajectory to burn up in the sun, and then remains aboard the craft to murder and torment its passengers and crew. This audio-book (read by the author , and being released in ten parts over a ten week period) will contain the complete text of the original paperback ve...
Dec 19, 2010•38 min
Stephen Euin Cobb (author, futurist, magazine writer--and your host) is today's featured guest. Smartphones are the topic. The Internet in your pocket. What smartphones are , trends in the growth of their popularity, and a detailed sampling of some of their current features and many of their useful apps which may be downloaded for free. Also described are: the touch screen; the still camera and video camera; Weatherbug ; Google Maps (and especially Google Traffic) Navigator (just like a GPS navi...
Dec 15, 2010•32 min
Les Johnson (NASA physicist, manager and author) is today's featured guest. Space Law is the topic. Such as the ramifications of the International Outer Space Treaty (which bans nuclear weapons in space, and specifies who is liable when satellites fall to earth.); the incident when a Russian spy satellite dropped a nuclear reactor onto Canada; the incident in which the region of Australia where Skylab fell fined the United States $400 for littering--a bill which the US Government has never paid;...
Dec 08, 2010•38 min
Experts in three different areas of energy technology ( hydrogen, chemical plants, electric cars ) are today's featured guests. Scott Greenwood (of The Center for Hydrogen Research ) describes the trends and near future of hydrogen energy. Dave Young (from Simtronics ) talks about a simulation training software package which he describes as the equivalent of a flight simulator for those who operate refineries and chemical plants. Brian Feverel whose personal vehicle is a rare fully electric 2003...
Dec 01, 2010•26 min
Richard Watson (author of Future Minds and Future Files ) is today's featured guest. Topics: How sales people are hurt by cell phones and the Internet; how we are all rapidly killing privacy; the excessive pandering to gradeschoolers; the bad (and some good) aspects of telecommuting; the elusive paperless office; reading on paper verses on screens; why stupid things we post online remain searchable forever; the benefits of moderate chaos; and the eternal question: If a clean desk is a clean mind...
Nov 24, 2010•43 min
Richard Watson (author of Future Minds and Future Files ) is today's featured guest. Topics: today's growing trends which affect how we perceive our world, ourselves, each other; and how we make decisions. Some of these topics include: intellectual promiscuity, the benefits of child-like thinking in adults, the willingness to risk making mistakes, the well known observation that attention spans are shrinking, and the less well known research indicating that I.Q.s are increasing. Hosted by Stephe...
Nov 17, 2010•36 min
Four presenters of new medical technologies are today's featured guests. Benjamin Rhymer (a Registered Cardiovascular Invasive Specialist with the Cath Lab) describes how surgeries are performed inside the human heart without opening the chest using manipulation devices mounted on the end of long flexible catheters; he also discusses intravascular ultrasound cameras, and fluoroscopy. Laura Goldberg and Michelle Mekscer (of the Pathology Department at Aiken Regional Medical Centers Laboratory) de...
Nov 10, 2010•32 min
Stephen Euin Cobb (your host) is today's featured guest. This episode celebrates humanity's imminent achievement of discovering our 500th planet outside our solar system (exoplanet or extrasolar planet). Your host shares three essays he has written on the topic: two of which are strictly scientific and one that is pragmatic speculation. Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the November 3, 2010 episode of The Future And You . [Running time: 31 minutes] Stephen Euin Cobb is (according to Wikipedia...
Nov 03, 2010•31 min
Dr. Ben Bova (author of more than 115 books about science and science fiction) is today's featured guest. Topics: (Second of two parts) radical new medical treatments based on stem cell research ; examples of what can go wrong when politics and science mix; a controversial revelation as to why the Russian Sputnik satellite beat the US Vanguard rocket into earth orbit; as well as: global climate change, ozone depletion, the International Geophysical Year, and the army verses the navy verses Dr. W...
Oct 27, 2010•34 min
Dr. Ben Bova (author of more than 115 books about science and science fiction) is today's featured guest. Topics: Government bureaucracies; government funded science and engineering projects; NASA; space exploration; and The Sigma Corporation (an organization created to provide a way for Science Fiction authors to give advice to government officials). (This is the first of two parts.) Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the October 20, 2010 episode of The Future And You . [Running time: 30 minu...
Oct 20, 2010•29 min
Doctor Jeffery R. Gosney D.M.D. is today's featured guest. Topics: The secret battle being fought for control of the American Dental Association by two of its internal factions--one faction composed of the organization's hired staff, and the other faction composed of those who are elected to control it by the votes of its members. Government efforts to create a new category of dentists in America who are authorized to preform dental procedures but can charge far less for their services since the...
Oct 13, 2010•59 min
Doctor Jeffery R. Gosney D.M.D . is today's featured guest. Topics: how nanomaterials are used in dentistry today; why mercury is being phased out of dental fillings; the continued decline in the value of insurance; new advances in dental imaging (both digital and 3D); benefits of the new low viscosity filling materials; as well as many other trends in dentistry. (First of two parts. Second in next week's episode.) Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb , this is the October 6, 2010 episode of The Future A...
Oct 06, 2010•50 min
Les Johnson (NASA physicist and manager) and Dr. Gregory L. Matloff (professor of astronomy) are today's featured guests. Topic: (Second of two parts.) Paradise Regained: the Regreening of Earth . Why the only way the ultimate goals of environmentalism can be achieved is if we stop using the earth as the source for our civilization's ever-growing need for resources, and instead tap into the much greater natural resources which surround the earth, in space. Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is th...
Sep 29, 2010•30 min
Les Johnson (NASA physicist and manager) and Dr. Gregory L. Matloff (professor of astronomy) are today's featured guests. Topic: Paradise Regained: the Regreening of Earth . Why the ultimate goals of environmentalism can only be achieved when we stop using the earth to supply our civilization's ever-growing need for resources, and instead tap into the far more abundant natural resources which surround the earth--in space. (First of two parts. Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the September 22...
Sep 22, 2010•30 min
Clyde Ward (a mechanical engineer specializing in robotics) is today's featured guest. Topics: robots he has worked on for nuclear facilities, his successes in the televised BattleBots competitions, early industrial robots and why they seem crude by today's standards, and behind the scenes anecdotes from his recent involvement in teaching robotics to young robotic enthusiasts. Clyde Ward received his degree in mechanical engineering from Tufts University. He was with the Robotics Group at the Sa...
Sep 15, 2010•33 min
Kelly Russell and Jim Lee (two leaders of The Aiken Robotics Club ) are today's featured guests. Topics: How the Aiken Robotics Club became world champions ; how robotics proved therapeutic for one 14 year-old student in a wheel chair; and an eyewitness account of what it was like for the teens to compete In front of an audience of tens of thousands in the Georgia Dome in Atlanta in April of 2010 when dozens of robot building clubs from high schools all across The United States and Canada brough...
Sep 08, 2010•42 min
Nine members of the Aiken Robotics Club (including some of the 2010 International FIRST Tech Competition winners) are today's featured guests. Topics: How robot building, designing and international competitions motivate students to greater academic activity and encourages them to cooperative team building. Also how--by being a roll-up-your-sleeves and get-your-hands-dirty activity--it's not just for the bookish, but also for kids who enjoy power tools. Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the S...
Sep 01, 2010•40 min
Robert G. Kennedy and Kenneth I. Roy (engineers and researchers) are today's featured guests. Topic: ( Second of two parts. ) Shell Worlds : the methods, benefits, difficulties and vast natural resources to be derived by building comfortable biospheres around airless moons and asteroids, such as our own moon, the planet Mercury, and the countless asteroids of the asteroid belt. Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the August 25, 2010 episode of The Future And You . [Running time: 35 minutes] Rec...
Aug 25, 2010•35 min
Robert G. Kennedy and Kenneth I. Roy (engineers and researchers) are today's featured guests. Topic: Shell Worlds : the methods, benefits, difficulties and vast resources to be derived by building comfortable biospheres around airless moons and asteroids, such as our own moon, the planet Mercury, and the countless asteroids of the asteroid belt. Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the August 18, 2010 episode of The Future And You . [Running time: 30 minutes] This was recorded in front of a live...
Aug 18, 2010•29 min
Les Johnson (NASA physicist and manager) and Dr. Gregory L. Matloff (professor of astronomy) are today's featured guests. Topic: ( Second of two parts .) How the half million items of space junk orbiting the earth at 25 times the speed of sound have now become a danger to everyone's technologically dependant lifestyle. Or at least to all those who use cell phones, credit cards, checking accounts, the Internet or electricity. Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the August 11, 2010 episode of The...
Aug 11, 2010•37 min
Les Johnson (NASA physicist and manager) and Dr. Gregory L. Matloff (professor of astronomy) are today's featured guests. Topic: how the half million items of space junk orbiting the earth at 25 times the speed of sound have now become a danger to everyone's technologically dependant lifestyle. Or at least to all those who use cell phones, credit cards, checking accounts, the Internet or electricity. ( First of two parts. This week they describe the problem, next week they discuss what can be do...
Aug 04, 2010•35 min
Tony V. Baughman (journalist, DJ, comedian and actor) is today's featured guest. Topics: surprises he witnessed as a journalist riding on the John Edwards campaign bus; how politicians are now actors first and politicians second; why not being an actor may have contributed to John McCain losing the last presidential election; the danger that future organizations may hoard information; our civilization's vulnerability to its computerized distribution system; how acting a theatrical role alters a ...
Jul 28, 2010•39 min
Tony V. Baughman (journalist, DJ, comedian and actor) is today's featured guest. Topics: why most kids today don't even own a radio, and yet how it is that many of them love The Beatles; the value of the annual Bonnaroo Music Festival and why some consider it the modern day equivalent of Woodstock; how theater can be considered performance therapy ; the lure of acting as a career as opposed to the safety of not striving for its lofty heights; and references to the Spencer Tracy movie Inherit the...
Jul 21, 2010•34 min
Tony V. Baughman (journalist, DJ, actor, comedian and program director at WKSX-FM) is today's featured guest. Topics: a behind the scenes look at the trends effecting newspapers and radio stations; how newspapers and radio stations are responding to the Internet stealing their listeners and readers; the one powerful advantage that all local newspapers and radio stations have over their national and Internet-based competition; and how radio stations are automated to sound like it's a live show wh...
Jul 14, 2010•38 min
