Here are a few images from this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, that most people will not see. These innovative products relate to application ecosystems which I find intriguing and believe promise wide-ranging societal benefits.
There’s a Cubit of the first quantum computer, which is so retro’ with its paleodigital-heavy copper structure dispersed on various levels. It makes me think of my computer sciences classes from the 1970’s.
Then there’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Mirror, which tells you of your health and makes suggestions. Also shown in this innovative like lab on the show floor were other ways to protect yourself beyond just making health suggestions based on feedback.
Products can now provide an immediate analysis of pollutants in the air, and smart ways to protect yourself, pose diffracted imaging that does not disturb driving,……the gamut of tech-innovation is shifting toward creative interactions with human/made ecosystems.
Paolo Pontoniere is a Neapolitan Journalist, who has been living in California for years and writes for major Italian media. Paraphrasing Charles V of Bourbon he would say that his interests curiosity never rests.
From Stones to sex, from science to conscience, from politics to pandemics, he follows with equal passion all events of which it is worth telling a story. Twists and turns of life led him to become an economic reporter, but as it happened with the Che, it was all due to a misunderstanding.
When his editors at the time asked during an editorial meeting if anybody knew anything about the economy he said yes, but he meant to say that to survive he didn’t need much. You see it was one of those artsy copy offices, full of practitioners of experimental arts; dreamers who breathed big ideas, had high minded ideals and lived on nothing else but sandwiches and cigarettes. Now things are different though. To live and work in Baghdad By the Bay one needs serious money, and he says, he too now understands the real Economy.
