Why CES Matters (For Now)

It's easy to hate CES. It's a vapid, broken wunderkammer filled with booze, waste, and gadgets no one will buy for months if not years if ever at all. The show floor is a crass place where marketers try out ways to get into our wallets and manufacturers, caught in a spiral of "design-build-trash" have to pump out new hardware just because they have to pump out new hardware - like a toothless, abscessed shark that can't stop moving as it seeps its own blood into the the water.