Jonathan talks with John H Ratajczak (@johnhratajczak) about The Liberation of Smart Watches, Knowing what time it is, Cricket Bars, Award Ceremonies As A Service (ACAAS), GMOs, Fuller House, A Musical Treat by yours truly, and a meta sign off.

Here, in episode 4 of Future Show, Jonathan talks with his super-interesting wife, Melissa Carmon (@melissacarmon), about Billionaire College, Robot Professors, The future of history, The ephemeral nature of digital things, The Battle of Hastings, and An Endless Dessert Buffet of Online Learning.  It’s a good one.

 

Here are some notes and things:

 

There’s Nothing Like A Human – Jonathan Andrew Myers (thank you very much)

 

Birdhouse In Your Soul – They Might Be Giants

 

Istanbul – They Might Be Giants
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sl4XCVmoXg

 

Istanbul – The Four Lads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcze7EGorOk

 

Rdio is gone.

http://www.rdio.com/farewell/

 

Launch Media

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAUNCH_Media

 

The Battle of Hastings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hastings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLy1LskT6Y8

 

The Amazon Rainforest
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_rainforest

 

World Cat
https://www.worldcat.org/

 

http://Archive.org

 

Google Books

https://books.google.com/

Coursera

http://Coursera.com

 

Pat Pattison
http://www.patpattison.com

 

And for the record, MOOC = Massive Open Online Courses.

 

 

Here in episode 3 of Future Show, Jonathan talks with Steve Shafer (@stevenkshafer) about VR Travel, Maine Coons, Moon Rock Countertops, Artificial Sweeteners, Positive Advertising, Colonizing Mars, and so so much more.

In episode 2 of Future Show, Jonathan talks with Sterling White (@hey_sterling) about Reebok Pumps, personal nuclear reactors, The Drama of Robot Cars and their Humans, Basic Car™, Teenager Moxie, heading to the hills, rerouting hurricanes with nuclear bombs, The Day Coat by Sterling White, and much more.

Here are some links to some of the things we reference:

Reebok Pumps:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reebok_Pump

AT&T’s Vision of the future from 1993:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PJcABbtvtA

Personal EEG:
https://emotiv.com/

Teleprompter from Caddie Buddy:
http://caddiebuddy.com/teleprompter-for-ipads-androids-and-phones/

A potential form for the Day Coat™:
http://www.statethelabel.com/products/two-tone-grey-smock

In this first episode of Future Show, Jonathan and Will talk about what’s next for the internet, Back To The Future, Robot Vacuums, illegal pets, business casual, The West (what is it?), and the Airbnb of food service.