#44 - Not Sorry for Party Rocking

This week, a CES recap of all our most exciting futuristic tech, lots of science entertainment news, including Discovery Channel, Phil Plait and Neil DeGrasse Tyson, as well as some thoughts on "human" rights for primates.

Links:

• More on Hoverboards
• Self-parking car
• Self-driving car
• Wireless charging "router"
• Wireless standards merger
• Wireless earbuds
• Discovery vows real content
• Hand Sanitizer - BPA absorption
• Primate rights

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Be sure to direct any questions you might have before, during, and after the show to Google+, Facebook or Twitter, or send them via email to mail@futurechat.me.

Future Tech Chat #26: Automation

We had a great time this week with the help of Alex from the UK talking about automation. We also had a heated discussion about political science and voting systems. +CGP Grey would be proud of this episode, and you can find links to several of his projects below.

Links:

• Teaching programs to program
• Humans Need Not Apply
• Hello Internet about Humans Need Not Apply
• Top Gear Self-Driving Rig Race
• Solar Learning TED talk
• BoxCar 2D
• Genetic Algorithm for walking
• CGP Grey Animal Kingdom Voting (Honestly, just watch all of them!)

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You can also check out the next episode of Future Sci Chat, live on YouTube next Saturday at 12:30 PM Eastern. We'll be discussing transportation and engine science, it will be an excellent episode.

Be sure to direct any questions you might have before, during, and after the show to Google+, Facebook or Twitter, or send them via email to futurechats@gmail.com.

FTC Special Edition #16: Google I/O 2014

Tune in live for a special 30-minute episode

9:00 PM EDT on Thursday June 19th, 2014!

Ahhhh it's that time of year again! The flowers are blooming, the sun is shining, the birds are singing, and Google is holding its annual I/O conference! The conference runs next week starting on June 25th, and we'll all have our eyes glued to the tech news sites to see what is announced.

This week's Future Tech Chat mini-episode will feature +Rob Attrell and myself, along with special guests +Carolyn Higman and +Ross May!

These types of corporate events are greatly anticipated forums for product releases and company developments, and it is a time-honoured tradition to make predictions and wish lists of what we'd like to see come out of them. In this week's special edition mini-episode, we will be sharing these predictions and thoughts with each other and all of you!

Apple recently held its WWDC event and made big splashes with the iOS 8 developments and features they announced, along with the health-conscious app and functionality integration they will begin focusing on. We still haven't seen much in the way of Apple-branded wearables, so the time is ripe for Google to be first-to-market with a Google watch and possibly expanding the Google Glass Explorer program to a geographically broader customer base.

Links to stuff we talked about:

• http://www.androidheadlines.com/2014/05/alleged-new-gmail-interface-leaks-shows-continued-project-hera-stylings.html
• http://www.theverge.com/2014/4/23/5643774/google-is-testing-stars-an-attempt-to-make-bookmarking-actually-useful
• http://www.android.com/wear/
• https://www.google.com/events/io
• http://www.theverge.com/2014/4/29/5664702/google-nexus-to-be-replaced-by-android-silver

The ball is in Google's court, let's keep our fingers crossed for a slam dunk!

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I hope you'll tune in live at our special mid-week time slot of 9:00 PM EDT on Thursday, June 19th for the episode, and you'll be able to watch it in full below live or after it's aired.

As usual, you can ask us any questions you might have on the Q&A in the event page (https://plus.google.com/events/ckl1neak16gksfkmkgudn1ne6g8) on Facebook, Twitter and Google+, or by email at futurechats@gmail.com. So far we have answered or addressed every question submitted, and you can expect that trend to continue!

We look forward to seeing you there live on Thursday!

Future Tech Chat #15: Parenting (Father's Day Special)

Starts live at 12:30 PM EDT on Saturday June 14th, 2014!

In this special Father's Day episode of Future Tech Chat, we will be talking about the technology that goes in to all aspects of modern parenting. From watching TV with toddlers, to giving teens tablets, we will discuss all varieties of electronics that can be involved in the child rearing process.

This is a topic that should be relevant to most people in their 20s, as technology has become an integral part of all of our lives. I, for one, am very interested to find out what raising a child will be like given the huge increase in technology that is available while raising a child, and how parents are now expected to be tracking their child and knowing their whereabouts 24/7, when my childhood was such a free experience and all the generations up to mine were all fine with the more "laissez-faire" parenting.

Should be a good one!

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I hope you'll tune in live at 12:30 PM EDT on Saturday, June 14th for the episode, and you'll be able to watch it in full above live or after it's aired.

You can direct any questions you might have to the Q&A on the event page (https://plus.google.com/events/csgv3crtinj971cahd48rsuknn4), or on Facebook, Twitter and Google+. We look forward to seeing you here live!

Future Tech Chat #5 - Digital Photos

In this episode, we discuss digital photography and the storage and sharing of photos/videos online. This is a topic that is close to all of our hearts, and is a common question I'm asked.

Hosted by: +Rob Attrell
Special Guests: +Mike Attrell & +Carolyn Higman