[Ipg-smz] Why I'm not going to CES

[Daniel Dern]

On Mon, 10 Dec 2018, Tom Henderson wrote:
> "Last year we came to CES with a mockup of FoldiMate, the robotic laundry 
> folder that quickly folds your laundry into neat piles so you can easily 
> put them away. This year, we’d love for you to bring your laundry to the 
> show … FoldiMate is bringing a fully functioning prototype!

Semper ubi sub ubi! (But don't leave a copy of A Wrinkle In Time in your 
laundry, or, no doubt, your stuff will end up on Mars or Narnia or 
whatever.

> I wish I could write a SciFi story about the laundry folder gone wrong, 
> how some Moldbanians were able to hack it, connecting to the NE USA 
> power grid, hijacking it, only to be thwarted by The Dress That Could 
> Not Be Folded, which caused it to kernel dump.

It's another near-future tech murder mystery waiting to happen.

Or was that David Gerrold's The Man Who Folded Himself ?:-)

DPD