“They say the Universe is expanding. That should help with the traffic.”–Steven Wright http://www.andertoons.com Autonomous vehicles? Flying cars? The concepts are exciting, but the truth is: most of us will still be driving manually on the ground for many years to come. And that means dealing with the motorist’s most persistent annoyance. Cong ...…

“The hard part is, how do you make a flying car that’s super safe and quiet? Because if it’s a howler, you’re going to make people very unhappy.”–Elon Musk “We wanted flying cars; what we got is 140 characters.”–Peter Thiel Well, guess what? We now have 280 characters, and we may finally be getting flying cars. Well, some of us may get the flyi ...…

“The Promise of Autonomous Vehicles is Great.”–Dan Lipinski “My opinion is that it’s a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous vehicles.”–Elon Musk http://www.andertoons.com There’s no shortage of opinions on the viability of self-driving cars. Be you a bull or a bear, though, there is no denying that there is a plethora of big players banking ...…

“A woman is like a tea bag–you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.”–Eleanor Roosevelt http://www.andertoons.com Artificial Intelligence–it seems there is no hotter topic in the tech world these days. Economists try to calculate its potential effects on jobs, car companies aim to tame it for autonomous driving, and big t ...…

“I saw huge buildings rise up faint and fair, and pass like dreams.” ― H.G. Wells, The Time Machine. http://www.andertoons.com This special edition of the Seeking Delphi podcast provides a preview of the 2018 IEEE Technology Time Machine, to be held October 31-November 1, at the Hilton Resort and Spa, San Diego, CA. Joining host Mark Sackler to ...…

The second annual Emotion AI Summit, presented by Affectiva, will be held in Boston, MA on Thursday September 6. For those who missed last year’s, or those who want a refresher, this is a rerun of the Seeking Delphi special edition podcast from the 2017 summit, held at the MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, September 13, 2017. A link to information ...…

“The future ain’t what it used to be.”–Yogi Berra “We’re doing a lot better than people think.”–Jerome Glenn, on The State of The Future. http://www.andertoons.com Ah, you have to love Yogi. He had no idea what he was talking about. But–surprise, surprise–the blind squirrel does occasionally find a nut. Because the future and all of its possibi ...…

“I can’t imagine a future without robots.”–Nolan Bushnell http://www.andertoons.com In the popular HBO series Westworld, robotic hosts are depicted as being placed into a kind of psychiatric analysis by their creators. Could this actually happen one day? Joanne Pransky thinks it will. She bills herself as the World’s First Robotic Psychiatrist® ...…

“We’re going to become caretakers for the robots. That’s what the next generation of work is going to be.”–Gray Scott http://www.andertoons.com I’m not worried about depressed robots. But I am worried about masses of people being depressed about robots. Or any other form of autonomous system, for that matter. How we use them, how we communicate ...…

“We are losing privacy at an alarming rate–we have none left.”–John McAfee “Privacy is becoming irrelevant.”–Gray Scott http://www.andertoons.com Is privacy dead? The answer may be more indifferent than you suspect. Gray Scott says it’s becoming irrelevant. People and politicians may squawk, but if you look at their behavior, it looks as if the ...…