Posted on 05/01/2017 11:39:15 AM PDT by C19fan
I attended the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in 2011. It's the world's largest trade show, with hundreds of new products introduced each year. What I saw were booths stuffed with future landfill: docks, dashboard mounts, adapters, robotic vacuum cleaners, 3D TVs. One afternoon, I attended a panel discussion about the rapidly approaching "connected home," referred to nowadays as the Internet of Things. The panelists promised that household devices of all kinds would soon be connected to one another and to the internet, thereby transforming the average American home into a futuristic fortress of hyperefficiency.
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I can't be bothered to learn all the operation of most of my e-gear regardless of whether they can all be sync'ed together or not. It took me days to unravel how to harvest photos from my 5-year-old camera to my new laptop because the camera was set up with my old laptop. Had to email the company, call a friend to help me understand their arcane instructions, etc. Pain in the arse.
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