Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schultmeister and Jason

DeFilippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame.

Welcome to Grumpy old geeks. I'm Jason DeFilippo.

I got a little short bit of follow up here, Brian, because it always makes me giddy.

This is a story over at the New York Times called Tech Can't Fix The Problem of Cars.

It's a long article talking about the things that we were promised. Where's my flying cars?

We'll probably never come to pass. One of these guys, Dr. Norton, he doesn't believe it either.

He says the whole boondoggle depends on us agreeing that high tech is better than tech.

That just doesn't stand up. This is not only Dr. Norton's view, even most driverless car optimists.

Now say the technology won't be ready to hit the roads in large numbers for many more years.

Let's say, oh, I don't know 20.

Yep, that's what I'm saying. I mean, we're no doctors, but for about nine years now,

we've been telling you it's still 20 years away and it is not 11 years away now.

It is still 20. Yep. It ain't coming. Give up the ghost. Done. Lame.

In the news.

So Brian, last week, Facebook stunned the world.

I'm not talking about the meta thing though. That was just like, no,

Derb. Yep.

This one was, they posted a blog post and they said an update on our use of face recognition.

And they said in the coming weeks, meta will shut down the face recognition system on Facebook

as part of a company wide company wide move to limit the use of facial recognition in our products.

As part of this change, people who have opted into our face recognition setting will no longer

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