Several Trends You Could Not Miss at CES -- Here They Are

The pace of technological change continues its inexorable march forward, with the pace steadily clicking faster. After decades of attending CES and riding the ebbs and flows it seems to me that this year finally shows a convergence of many waves of development. Artificial intelligence, voice recognition, virtual reality and internet of things are converging in ways that portend major changes in the way we will interact 24/7. From the seemingly arcane (a chess board that allows you to play anyone in the world, or against the best computers) to autonomous cars to the HAL-like ubiquity of Alexa, we are yet again in a brave new world. Consciously or otherwise, often in slippery slope fashion, we have individually opened the kimono to our personal world in exchange for seeming convenience.