Everywhere around us, there is chaos and disorder. Political instability, economic crises that last decades, nuclear saber rattling… the future is all bleak entropy! But one time a year, we can all escape the unhappy news cycle by replacing it with a weeklong-dose of ambitious futurism and unabashed tech optimism, courtesy of CES. We undertake our annual pilgrimage to Las Vegas because we love to see things improve — nothing improves faster or more reliably than personal electronics — but I’m sad to say that not every company that comes here is doing its utmost to push things forward. And it’s kind of our fault.

My favorite category of technology, gaming hardware, seems like a one-note record repeating itself for over a decade. More…

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