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

[Lynn Greiner]

Maybe "And He Built  a Crooked House"?

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From: Ipg-smz <ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org> On Behalf Of Daniel Dern
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2018 8:00 PM
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Subject: Re: [Ipg-smz] Why I'm not going to CES

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