NEW: Rare Earths and Rare Tech Podcast. Podcast #1: Canada's Rare Earth Future

 

I am launching a new podcast today, the Rare Earths and Rare Tech Podcast, which will cover 'Rare Earths' as the material sources of our digital and virtual evolution. The 'Rare Tech' in the title covers topics such as AI, robotics, cryptos, blockchains, and Web 3, among others.

Note that for the sake of time and my sanity, there will be two types of  episodes. The first type will be BACKGROUNDERS, which will be AI-researched, written, and generated. These are meant to be quick overviews and summaries to give the listener a basic grasp of the topic. They are not exhaustively correct and you should always do your own research.

The second type of episode will be human-created by me - researched, written and presented. These episodes, labeled as HIGHLIGHTS, will offer the kind of analysis I have presented here at Histories of Things to Come, by contextualizing 21st century technological innovation in historical terms.

Source essays, whether AI-generated or written by me, will be provided exclusively to Patreon subscribers. You can support me at Patreon here.

The first episode, Canada's Rare Earth Future, is an AI-generated Backgrounder on why President Donald Trump may wish to annex Canada. It provides a snapshot of the rare earths sector in Canada.

Relevant to the podcast is a clip from today's telegram newsfeed: "The CTO of Palantir says that the United States 'is at war with China' and that 'the time to mobilize has come.'"

Source: https://t.me/GeneralMCNews/12250.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/deepseek-ai-us-ban-prison-b2692396.html.

Solar System Space Opera

Happy New Year! My podcast, A New Mythology for the New Millennium, continues with my Solar System Space Opera. 

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I wrote the prompts for the opera, but the music is Suno AI-generated. Suno is very pop-oriented and it was interesting to see how it could be pushed to produced more nuanced music. This project explores how AI prompts and music offer a new way of presenting themes in my writing. 

Over at my other blog, The Dragonfly, I will follow up later in January 2025 with a podcast on the mythological or occulted history of the solar system and how it fits with my Dark Matter literary symbolism.

Here at Histories of Things to Come, I will begin to discuss the positives and negatives of AI tools as they rapidly evolve. The recent video below raises serious concerns, namely, that AI will be fantastic until the moment when it suddenly turns on us. I think AI development has been affecting our society for decades already, and until we grapple with that fact, we won't see how close to the edge we actually are.