The last time I was at CES I went to one of the outer wings of the event where they had all the random booths of people shilling cheap backpacks, cheap cell phone cases, cheap Bluetooth speakers, etc. etc. etc. Every booth basically the same as the next and each one promoting what was definitely nothing more than near-future landfill filler.
I remember having two really clear thoughts.
1) CES is mostly a megachurch dedicated to buying crap we don't need with money we don't have.
2) It's a special kind of existential debasing that goes into being a person who has to tend one of those booths and stand there pretending like your hot pink camouflage backpacks are so much better than the ones that look exactly like them in the booth next to yours.
A lot of people get really excited to go to CES. I've had to go for work several times, and it always just makes me depressed.
I remember having two really clear thoughts.
1) CES is mostly a megachurch dedicated to buying crap we don't need with money we don't have.
2) It's a special kind of existential debasing that goes into being a person who has to tend one of those booths and stand there pretending like your hot pink camouflage backpacks are so much better than the ones that look exactly like them in the booth next to yours.
A lot of people get really excited to go to CES. I've had to go for work several times, and it always just makes me depressed.