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

[Cameron Laird]

This thread is better than the device or the short stories.

On Mon, Dec 10, 2018, 8:45 PM Lynn Greiner <lists at itwriter.com wrote:

> 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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> 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
>
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