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🏀 HELLO FUTURE: WOULD COACH WOODEN WANT COLLEGE ATHLETES TO GET PAID? The game’s gone digital — and the money’s gone wild. I sat down with Jeff Fellenzer, USC Professor of Sports Business Media and a friend of legendary coach John Wooden, to ask the billion-dollar question: What would Coach Wooden think of today’s NIL world?
—> 💰 THE NEW PLAYBOOK: College athletes are signing endorsement deals, jumping through transfer portals, and building personal brands — all before graduation. It’s not just about practice anymore. It’s about contracts, content, and clicks.
—> 🧠 THE LEGEND’S LESSON: Jeff shared stories from his time with Wooden — how the coach taught that character lasts longer than fame. But in an AI-powered recruiting era, can integrity still win the game?
—> ⚙️ THE FUTURE: As sports meets social media and machine learning, the line between “student” and “pro” is fading fast. College sports aren’t just evolving — they’re rebooting.
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hello, future. it’s me, kev.
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—> HEADLINE OF THE TIMES, via Daily Galaxy: Elon Musk Looks Set to Become the World’s First Trillionaire — Is Tesla About to Be the Greatest Company in History?
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⚡️ THE DATA CENTER DEBATE — AMERICA’S NEXT INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IS WAITING ON POWER. In Santa Clara — hometown of Nvidia and ground zero for the AI boom — two massive data centers are built but sitting dark. Why? They’re waiting for electricity. It’s a scene that feels almost absurd: billion-dollar buildings filled with servers, humming with potential, but no power to turn them on.
—> 💾 THE BACKSTORY: Digital Realty and Stack Infrastructure — two of the biggest names in global data centers — have empty facilities near Nvidia HQ because the local utility can’t yet deliver enough electricity. Power grids, built for a pre-AI world, are buckling under the demand for cloud computing and artificial intelligence.
—> 🔋 THE FUTURE: By 2035, U.S. electricity demand from AI alone is expected to double. That means new power lines, new substations, and new ways of thinking about energy. Some of the biggest names in tech — from OpenAI to Meta — are investing trillions to build next-gen infrastructure across the country.
—> 🧠 THE ARGUMENT: Critics call data centers energy hogs. But let’s be honest — people said the same thing about Thomas Edison and his lightbulbs. They said cars would kill the horse industry. Every new technology looks greedy until it becomes essential.
The truth? Data centers are the engines of the 21st century — powering everything from your phone to the future of medicine. America doesn’t have a data center problem. It has a power problem.
SPACE
💥 DID AN INTERSTELLAR VISITOR JUST EXPLODE? Something wild may have just happened at the edge of our solar system. Some astrophysicists are saying a mysterious object called 3I/ATLAS — only the third confirmed interstellar visitor ever detected — may have just blown itself apart after swinging too close to the Sun.
—> ☄️ THE SCIENCE: As 3I/ATLAS made its closest pass (called perihelion), telescopes caught it spewing gas and dust so violently that it may have split into more than a dozen pieces. New images show massive “smoking trails” stretching nearly two million miles through space — longer than seven trips to the Moon.
—> 👽 THE TWIST: 3I/ATLAS will make its closest pass to Earth on December 19 and Jupiter in March. Whatever’s left — a trail of fragments or a single intact object — could tell us if this cosmic visitor was just another rock... or something far stranger.
Source: Futurism
QUANTUM // ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
🕶️ THE AI SPY GAME — INSIDE THE NEXT ESPIONAGE REVOLUTION: If everyone’s a spy… who can you trust? I sat down for part two of my interview with Dr. Anthony Vinci, the first Chief Technology Officer of the NGA and author of The Fourth Intelligence Revolution, to talk about the future of spying in the age of AI.
—> 🤖 THE BIG IDEA: Vinci says the world’s oldest profession is getting a software update. AI, not agents, will rule the next generation of espionage — and you might be part of it.
—> 🛰️ CITIZEN SPIES: As algorithms spread power to everyone, Vinci argues that defending democracy now means becoming a “citizen spy.” Every phone, camera, and data trail becomes a potential weapon — or shield.
—> 🔐 THE QUESTION: Where’s the line between protection and paranoia? If everyone’s watching everyone, does freedom survive?
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HEALTH // ROBOTS
Source: Tesery // CarWorld
🧠 NEURALINK WANTS YOUR BRAIN TO DRIVE A ROBOT: What happens when you mix the $20,000 disappointment of bipedal robots with the ethical chaos of brain implants? Neuralink’s Head of Surgery, Danish Hussain, says we’re about to find out.
—> ⚙️ THE CLAIM: In a viral post on X, Hussain defended Neuralink’s image, saying it’s “literally just out here helping the homies eat pretzels lol.” The comment came alongside a video showing a man controlling a robotic arm “via telepathy.” Yes, really.
—> 🤖 THE PROMISE: When asked about connecting Neuralink’s brain chip to Tesla’s Optimus robot, Hussain replied, “We’re starting simple, but this will happen very soon!” Translation: Elon Musk wants your thoughts to pilot his next robot army.
So will your brain one day drive a robot? Maybe. But if history’s any guide, Musk’s biggest talent might still be selling the future before it exists.
Source: Futurism
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Kev
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