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REAL TIME WITH... IPC APEX EXPO 2022 SHOW & TELL MAGAZINE I I-CONNECT007 55 processing, and that was just gangbusters for 20 years or so. It seems like we're heading into a second one, and these financial people are claiming it's sensors, internet of things, and making everything smart; that is the super cycle for this industry. Would you agree? Pogue: I think we tend to extrapolate, to over- simplify, and to overhype in this industry. I've seen it year aer year. I've been going to the Consumer Electronics Show since I was born, and they've been promising the internet-con- nected complete home every single year I've been there, since the '80s. e average person still doesn't have a connected home. ere is a tendency to overproject, but I think that the AI advances are making a huge leap in the effec- tiveness of everything we're doing on these devices. ere are tens of thousands of examples, but I just had 1,200 old family slides scanned by a scanning service, and every single one of them is blurry in its own way. Some, because the photograph wasn't good; some, because there was motion blur; and some, because the scanner wasn't great. ere's an AI app that compares each photo against tens of millions of other photos that it's looked at. It knows, "at's a face, someone's glasses, the Arc de Triomphe, or that's the Eiffel Tower," and sharpens it based on all the photos that have ever come before. It creates sharper pictures out of material that you wouldn't think could be usable. at's just one example of many where AI is tripling the usefulness of all of this. I would call that, if not part of the next super wave, the super wave. Johnson: Got it. ank you. I just want you to know that I've been reading your books since the '80s. Pogue: You have good taste. Barry Matties: In your keynote, you were talk- ing about the autonomous car, and giving some examples of how the car is going to work and make decisions. It couldn't quite merge into the lane to turn le, unfortunately cut off another driver, and that other driver wasn't very happy. But that driver didn't know it was not the driver decision to cut them off. is brings up a values decision. In a crash situation, when that self- driving car must choose between a tree, a dog, and a person, do you want a programmer mak- ing that decision for you? Pogue: at's the age-old question. Matties: Right. Because that's what we're hand- ing over, isn't it? Pogue: I have a Tesla, a Model 3, and I'm a huge fan of the autopilot as it exists today. On the highway, the thing is unequivocally safer than I am. It does not make a mistake. It will not hit a car ahead, no matter how suddenly they stop. On sites we've seen in other situations, when