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Posted Monday, January 07, 2008 1:00 PM

A Luddite Goes to CES

Brian Braiker
The good people at Newsweek have seen it fit to send not one, not two, but three people from New York to Vegas this year. There's Steven Levy who has been writing books on technology since I was in fourth grade. There's N'Gai Croal whose knowledge of games and gadgets will leave you gasping in incomprehension approximately 6 seconds after you ask him "What are you looking forward to at CES?" Then there's, well, me. One of my prized posessions is a record player; my only television is sitting in a closet collecting dust. Forget about asking me the difference between Blu-ray and HD-DVD technologies. I am typing this blog entry from the press room at the Las Vegas Convention Center becuase I couldn't make my laptop go online from my hotel room. Which is fine because I forgot to bring my laptop's charger with me anyway.
 
So I'm the third man here at CES. You've got two of the best technology reporters working today, both of whom have their own Wikipedia entries. And you have me, a daddy blogger who, incidentally, can't seem to shake the stomach flu he woke up with yesterday, courtesy of his daughter. Obviously I'm not going to beat any lifetime beat reporters at their own beat. But I am a reporter, so with a little luck I'll be able to figure out which are the right questions to ask the right people. I'll be the advocate for the poor schlub who still pines for Betamax; the guy who gave up after Apple's Newton let him down.
 
And as a former arts editor, I'll be delving deep into the cultural significance of CES. For example: in breaking technology news I've learned that Chuck D is manning a booth here! Awesome! And Kevin Costner's band is playing later today. Rock on, Bodyguard! And did you know that there's a shadow convention going on this week as well? As it does every year, the Adult Entertainment Expo is, uh, going down simultaneously on the other side of the, er, strip. Hilarious! Aren't geeks the core consumers of porn? Isn't this some perfect storm of conventiony goodnes? You can bet I'll be putting my Luddite reportorial chops to work on this important CES story.
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