Rolling Stone: So when scientists discovered that an electron can be in two places at once, how do you— Elon Musk: I don't think it can be in two places at once. I think it's rendered as we see it. Dynamic rendering. That explains quantum probability. NEXT    

Tesla Model 3 A mass market electric car with most of what it needs to be driverless. The most coveted car on Earth. Offspring of the 2nd and 10th quickest cars on the road. The interior has no buttons, knobs, or dials. In a few years, you can sleep in it while it goes to Denver, or you can send it to the store.    

Tesla house The shingles on the roof are solar photovoltaics that charge hundreds and hundreds of little batteries in the white box at right. The batteries power the house and the car. There are no wires coming into the house. The box says Tesla. NEXT    

  If your phone knows where your next event is, the car knows where to go and will entertain you along the way, providing screen-based entertainment and maybe even a little exercise machine. It will be very cheap and very efficient. You will feel good about it. Zillions of dollars will flow in many directions. There will be a lot fewer vehicles on the street, and the streets will be completely different, with commerce and entertainment dominating walkable space, as people seek goods, services, and experiences on foot. NEXT    

By David Crossley Among other things, my life has involved studying and writing about the future for the last 60 years.  For the last 25 years, I've been focused on the Houston region and how its people will move into the future. It is reassuring to note that nearly everything I wrote about 15 years ago,  everything I suggested would happen, has come to pass or is coming to pass in Houston. Back then, it would have been clear to anybody who spent time looking at trends and concepts from around the world that cities were growing while rural populations shrank; that walkable, complete neighborhoods...

Everything failed, but not forever On June 1, 2017, the elected leaders of the United States government and all the people who participate in the conservative movement to shrink the government to a size that you could put into a bathtub and drown, decided the government would no longer participate with all but two of the nations on Earth to clean up the planet and prevent the dynamic processes that surround it from driving life toward extinction. Fortunately, the vast majority of the people of the United States have more sense than that and will continue to work together with the rest...

Did we drop the ball? Today the president launched his war on the human species with a series of actions designed to accelerate climate change, at least in the United States. Were people meditating, focusing on connecting to his mind and the minds of people around him? Or did we get distracted by Russia and Nordstrom's and North Korea and a hundred other issues? Did we drop the ball? Can we try again? NEXT

Chinese astronauts This is so modern. All the while the American nation is tumbling through the threats to its democracy, China is emerging as the next premier nation in the world.   NEXT (coming)

Another hope? Update: It is unclear how much of this "different profile" is spin, how much is greenwash, and how much is progress on climate disruption. Rex Tillerson is Donald Trump's presumptive Secretary of State. He is the CEO of Exxon Mobil. News reports say Exxon's position on climate disruption changed radically when Tillerson took over. “Before and after Rex Tillerson, Exxon had a very different profile, as a company, in the issues related to climate change, and that’s worth noting,” said Sam Adams, the United States director for the World Resources Institute, a nonpartisan...

Wham, magic snuffed Scott Pruitt believes there is no scientific consensus about climate disruption. He is opposed to the Environmental Protection Agency. He wants to burn more fossil fuel. Donald Trump today named him to run the Environmental Protection Agency. Were Ivanka Trump and her children given the cold shoulder by her dad and their grandfather? Game over? Or can the Universal Mind Climate Disruption project change these minds? If so, the meditation objects are Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump, and this guy. NEXT