Welcome to the R-Labs podcast.

Our special guest today is Mike Elgin.

Mike, thanks for hanging out with us today.

Thanks, Bill.

Appreciate it.

Thanks for having me on.

Give everybody the two-minute spiel on what you're doing today.

But remember, don't go crazy because I'm going to put you in the time machine a little bit.

So just focus on, like, what you're doing today. I'm going to put you in the time machine a little bit. So just focus on like what you're doing today.

I'm a professional editorialist.

I write editorial, you know, opinion columns.

I've been doing it for decades and I've done a variety of other things as well for decades.

But that's mainly what I do now.

I have a newsletter and I write for computer publications.

I was going to ask you like opinions on computer stuff. Yes. Mostly nowadays, artificial

intelligence, augmented reality, you know, sort of the bleeding edge of technology, even into

physical AI with robotics training, stuff like that.

I don't write it from an engineer's perspective.

I write it for kind of like technical people who are specialists in other fields.

So I'm like the scientific American approach where my audience is technology professionals, but it's like I'm explaining,

you know, AI to developers, or I'm explaining, you know, augmented reality to people who

do business, you know, cybersecurity stuff. So that's kind of my approach.

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