Mike Adams Live: From the Editor's Desk: Phil's best of CES

Sunday, January 11, 2015

From the Editor's Desk: Phil's best of CES

A few (more) thoughts on the boss' favorites

We survived another one. Another week in Las Vegas. Another week at CES and forced narratives and crazy awesome tech that many of us won't ever be able to afford, right alongside crazy (crazy) tech that will never see the light of day once it's shipped back from the Las Vegas Convention Center.

That, friends, is CES, at least from the tech side.

For those of us on my end of the business, it's also one of the few times a year we see our work friends, folks spread out all over the world. We compete, sure, but that just makes us all better. And on occasion we sit and we eat and we drink and we talk about how lucky we are to get to do this in the first place, one-upping each other as we go.

And we get to put faces to readers. It's cliche, and it's absolutely an ego stroke, but I still love it when strangers come up just to say hi. It's important to remember that we do this for people and not just for readers. And seeing faces flips that switch. You remember that people care not just what you say, but that it's you saying it. When we forget that is when we tend to get in trouble and lose our way. So please don't ever be too shy to introduce yourself.

A few other thoughts on the CES that was ...