What are the limits of technology? Are we pushing up against them to the point that technological progress may halt? What's next?  These are things we ponder this week on Cantankerous Curmudgeons.

After a brief hiatus, Esteban and I chat about the merits of experiential learning and how we need to bolster the application of all of the standards based education our kids receive in order for them to be successful in life.

Some time off, man it's nice, but it leads to long episodes!  Enjoy episode 34 where E and I chat about unbelievable beliefs.  We enjoyed this one and hope that you do too!

Today is all about Kermit.  Kidding.  It's about going green and understanding the value chain of electricity, electric vehicles, and in general understanding the world around you.  We do quite a bit of curmudgeoning in this one....

Today we talk about market manipulation and social influencing... we are only moderately curmudgeonly about this topic.

This is the blockchain episode!!!  There's so much goodness in blockchain technology, but most people don't understand it and think that it's only good for novelties and crypto. Spoiler Alert! Blockchain is way more than that!

Episode 30! Amazing.This week we talk about digital twins, their utility, their lack of adoption, and changes we need to make in a number of fundamental paradigms to make digital twins realize their potential.  Good times, ...

We've always been tinkerers - pulling apart stuff as kids, putting it back together, building hardware, developing software.  So what do we do now that most things are black boxes?  Maybe it's just a different kind of tinkering. ...

Of all of the problems in healthcare, one of the worst is alarm fatigue.  Like most industries we alarm about a lot of things, with little delineation between severity.  Esteban and I talk about how to address this and potential augme...

Today we bemoan the stigma that video games beget behavior.  With a few interesting twists and turns we try to shed some light on the subjectivity of the stigma and what it may take to get past it.

Pontification on the benefits and perils and what it takes to get to a useful bio-silico collaboration.  What is that?  Give it a listen and find out!

Episode 25! Holy cow, time flies!  Today the Curmudgeons get extra cantankerous (see what I did there?) about AI fanbois and the harm that they do to the rest of the AI community.  Of course we take a few detours and wrong turns, but ...

Who should own your data?  How should your data be shared? Should it at all? Who has control over to whom and for what it is shared?  Esteban and Ray tackle these discussions in an overwhelmingly disconcerting episode.

Are robots going to steal your job?  Will AI replace huge swaths of the workforce?  Do you think you'll be displaced with automation takes away the manual parts of your work?  Today we explore the reality of replacement and displ...

The AI Placebo effect... a little misuse of the term, but today we talk about how solutions are marketed as being AI driven and how that gives people a different feeling about the efficacy or performance of the tool, even if there's no "AI" wit...

Useless AI... those AI results that seem good on the surface but are in no way believable or useful, for any number of reasons.  We dive into this topic today on Cantankerous Curmudgeons.

Today we talk about "using AI only for good" and what that implies.  We take a few fun detours down the path into perfection bias and other fears of failure.  Enjoy this, our 20th episode released on time on St. Patrick's day!

Ambient Compute.  Yes, today we talk all about those devices and gadgets that are always listening to you.  Are they a great convenience and potential life saver or are they a nuisance that infringes on your privacy?  You be the ...

Bias and believability.  Two things that plague machine learning, but also two things that plague people.  Why do we have a double standard when it comes to trust, believability, and perfection?  We explore this and other topics ...

Information ubiquity... is it good to have all of the worlds information at your fingertips?  Is it hurting us as people, as a society? Or is there something to be gained that over comes any potential downside?  We explore these topic...

Today we riff about balancing economic profitability and social empowerment.  With only one or two side-journeys and rabbit trails!  

We talk about robots, robotics, and autonomy and explore what it will take to focus on social good when it comes to technological advancement.  Enjoy!

Augmented Reality - really cool or really scary?  Esteban and Ray dive into this topic with a lens that only cranky old men have.  

Today Esteban and Ray ponder theoretical reality and wonder about the difference between your reality and ours.

What does it mean to be human? What will it take to differentiate humanity from intelligent machines in the future.  Esteban and Ray talk through these and other topics on today's cast.