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Younger Crowd Impacts Success, Failure of Products

“I don't think he was left here intentionally, but his being here is a miracle, Elliot. It's a miracle and you did the best that anybody could do. I'm glad he met you first.” – E.T. the Extra Terrestrial,” Universal, 1982By Andy Marken

If you're like me, you have a couple of different calendars ... yours - office, home; and those you use to keep track of your kids' activities.

Tracking, matching is like a 3-D chess game.

It's a lot different than when I was a kid. You only had a few choices – plop in front of the TV set, go play in the traffic or be bored.

Wearable Tech Will Change Lots of Things but You

              “SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSMOKIN'!” – Mask, “The Mask,” New Line Cinema, 1994  By Andy Marken

I'm not sure what I like best about coming back from CES (Consumer Electronics Show): trying to figure out what new insanely reat technology/products are going to be the "gotta have" stuff next Christmas or the first three months of the year at the club and seeing all the folks hell-bent on keeping their New Year's resolution to lose weight and get back into shape.

Virtually There, Fly-bys, Friendly Bots, Something from Nothing

New Stuff – While this is the media mob at ShowStoppers, there were people everywhere at this year’s CES trying to see what’s new, what’s hot and what’s not around the 35 football fields of exhibit space. In a word, impossible. By Andy Marken

CES (Consumer Electronics Show) is just too much to take in and digest in a single long, painful week.
If you look at all the products in one category, you say the show is all about (pick your subject); but when you step back and analyze what you saw, there are product categories that were almost as amazing as the 4K TVs and cars--especially when you saw how much virtual reality (VR) has progressed, how much better robots have become and especially how 3D printing is going to be put to use.

Wear it, Drive it, Watch it – WOW, It's Coming

Rush Begins – The 2015 CES was not only the largest worldwide show to date, it was also the most packed by industry executives and media people from around the world. By Andy Marken

When you're caught up in the magic of CES (Consumer Electronics Show), it's pretty hard to tell what is going to be the next great movement/idea and what is going to be a yeah ... but.
It's impossible to "see" all of CES because it takes up about 35 football fields of space but there were a lot of the 170,000 attendees who tried their damndest.

Eliminate User and Security Breaches, Hacks Will Be Solved

“Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more…” – Sir Laurence Olivier, Henry V (The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fifth with his Battle Fought at Agincourt in France), 1944By Andy Marken
We recovered from Heartbleed and now Bash vulnerability/shellshock emerges as the next great "discovery" that's going to cause massive data breaches (think Sony Entertainment).
Every enterprise breach will bring out the hordes of lawyers and their John Doe lawsuits to recover millions for as yet unnamed injured parties who put their information into someone's database somewhere and used their ABCDE/12345 passwords to protect "their stuff."
Then, they put all that stuff into someone's cloud because it was the cheapest choice in town or better yet, was free!

Mergers, Acquisions and Spinoffs are Board Games Played with People

“That is just the beginning. I've seen things you've only seen in your nightmares. Things you can't even imagine. Things you can't even see. There are things that hunt you in the night. Then something screams.” – ‘Alan Parrish, “Jumangi,” Columbia Pictures, 1995By Andy Marken

A while back, I figured out that the CE (consumer electronics) industry-- or the complete technology industry, for that matter – is a fashion industry.
The minute someone introduces something that's hot and sexy the agile ones run out and schedule their well-staged major announcement (along with the obligatory "leaked" insider scoop) and it's dubbed an innovation.

Finally, Ransom Notes Have Joined the Digital Age

“You pick me clean, you put me in a coffin with a rotten, stinking cat, and now you strip me bollock naked.” – Robert Agar, “The Great Train Robbery,” Sterling Films, 1978By Andy Marken

Think how great it's going to be in 2020 with 50B connected things.

Not just your notebook, tablet, smartphone (if they'll even be necessary then) but your transportation, stuff in your house, things where you dine, drink, visit.

It's the marvelous world of IoT (Internet of Things), IoE (Internet of Everything).

Keep You and Your Stuff A Little Less Available to "Them"

“Folks that throw dirt on you aren't always trying to hurt you, and folks that pull you out of a jam aren't always trying to help you.” – Jack Beauregard, “My Name is Nobody,” Refran Cinematographica, 1973By Andy Marken

If you think it's all about you ... you're right!

Samsung, Apple, Ford, M&Ms, Johnson & Murphy, Dos Equis, Gucci, etc. want you to buy something.

Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. want to know more about you so they can sell you to someone that wants you buy something.

Google, Amazon, Dropbox, Facebook, Microsoft, etc. want you to put your stuff in their cloud so they can look it over and figure out if it has any resale value.


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