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CES: We visit the tech industry's scary vision for the future
the It Could Happen Here podcast did a 3-part series on this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas, and I thought it was some of the most nuanced and interesting coverage I've seen.
1: The dead future of Big Tech - host Robert Evans got his start in journalism doing tech reporting more than a decade ago, including covering CES. he reflects on how the show, and the tech industry as a whole, has changed over that time.
2: The good parts of our future tech dystopia - Robert and co-host Garrison talk about the good / promising parts of what they saw at the show
3: We visit the tech industry's scary vision for the future - discussion of the creepy / less good stuff they saw at CES, including lots of surveillance cameras & robots
I finally got a chance to listen to this. I don’t always agree with Robert Evans on everything (on this podcast series especially) but these are largely things I agree with. He really hit the nail on the head to explain what I have been having a hard time to express about what this CES has made me feel. The big tech industry players are checked out and aren’t interested in innovation or in creating things of utility to people anymore. The theme of this years CES was practically “put a TV screen on it”. One particularly idiotic car manufacturer made a car that is literally entirely covered in displays.
Man, i always love the amount of research Robert Evans's pours into these episodes. It is so impressive. He also preaches to the choir with his socialist, progressive perspective. Nothing but big endorsements for anything he puts out.
My only issue is he cringy and dismissive sometimes, particularly on his "Behind the Bastards" podcast. I would love if he tightened it up a bit so I could share this with more conservative folks in my circle without it being waved off as "cringy liberal propoganda". I feel like this is a great example that he can move that direction and I would love if he did it even more. To be honest, I would appreciate John Oliver doing the same thing. I think they would have a bigger impact and reach folks who don't just think very similarly to me.