As tech companies cancel events into 2021, Consumer Technology Association says next January's CES will take place “both physically in Las Vegas and digitally”
time to herd everyone into giant rooms full of screens, robots and drones during a deadly pandemic https://twitter.com/... X A-Xii Mims / @mims : The only way this works is if we have immunity passports by January https://www.theverge.com/... Casey Newton / @caseynewton : CES stands for Coronavirus Electronics Show and the price of entry is now moderate to severe risk of hospitalization. still worth it to see the new LG smart refrigerators in person https://twitter.com/... Marques Brownlee / @mkbhd : CES is literally the worst case scenario 100,000+ people flying in from all over the world Everyone touches the same stuff and shakes hands for a few days Then everyone flies it back home There's a reason there's already a flu named after CES. Should probably cancel this one https://twitter.com/... Sean Hollister / @starfire2258 : Wishful thinking. Mobile World Congress repeatedly insisted it would not cancel... until it did. https://twitter.com/... Ed Zitron / @edzitron : Honestly the CTA should have cancelled CES months ago, and holding it with no vaccine or antiviral is irresponsible. They're gonna get lots of people really sick https://www.theverge.com/... Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz : I hope the hot new product is a vaccine https://www.theverge.com/... Lance Ulanoff / @lanceulanoff : This is both hopeful and a little scary. https://www.theverge.com/... @rdrv3 : A few serious #CES2021 thoughts. 1. President of CTA is a known Trump bootlicker. The timing here is not a coincidence, they chose this week for a reason: Trump is under siege and looking for allies. CTA hopes he'll boost for them as an example of America returning to normal. Tony Romm / @tonyromm : sure, let's pack a billion people into a confined space just to look at the same TVs https://www.theverge.com/... Dan Seifert / @dcseifert : that's a no from me, dogg https://www.theverge.com/... Dave Zatz / @davezatz : haha hell no. was a breeding ground for horrible annual viruses even before covid. also f that elon musk tunnel boon dongle - extend the monorail. https://twitter.com/...
Putting on my tinfoil hat for a second, but imagine potentially being one of the bigger reasons COVID spread rapidly worldwide and still holding your conference in person with risks still in tow. https://www.theverge.com/...
Unless things take a massive, drastic, and currently unexpected turn for the unbelievably positive, an in-person #CES2021 seems like a shockingly reckless, money-driven exercise in speedy mass infection. https://www.ces.tech/...
I'm baffled by the CEA's decision to hold CES 2021 in Las Vegas, in person, as usual. Who is going to sign up now to speak, exhibit, or attend? Is the idea that most will stay away, so those who do come will easily maintain social distancing? https://www.ces.tech/...
Holding the largest technology trade show in the world in an unsustainable desert casino city prone to blackouts and water shortages was simply not dystopian enough anymore—time to herd everyone into giant rooms full of screens, robots and drones during a deadly pandemic https://…
CES stands for Coronavirus Electronics Show and the price of entry is now moderate to severe risk of hospitalization. still worth it to see the new LG smart refrigerators in person https://twitter.com/...
CES is literally the worst case scenario 100,000+ people flying in from all over the world Everyone touches the same stuff and shakes hands for a few days Then everyone flies it back home There's a reason there's already a flu named after CES. Should probably cancel this one http…
Honestly the CTA should have cancelled CES months ago, and holding it with no vaccine or antiviral is irresponsible. They're gonna get lots of people really sick https://www.theverge.com/...
A few serious #CES2021 thoughts. 1. President of CTA is a known Trump bootlicker. The timing here is not a coincidence, they chose this week for a reason: Trump is under siege and looking for allies. CTA hopes he'll boost for them as an example of America returning to normal.
haha hell no. was a breeding ground for horrible annual viruses even before covid. also f that elon musk tunnel boon dongle - extend the monorail. https://twitter.com/...