{"id":58188,"date":"2017-01-12T17:09:22","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T22:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=58188"},"modified":"2017-01-13T08:50:23","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T13:50:23","slug":"ces-2017-key-trends-laughlin-j-walter-thompson-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2017\/01\/12\/ces-2017-key-trends-laughlin-j-walter-thompson-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"CES 2017: Key trends [Laughlin; J. Walter Thompson Intelligence]"},"content":{"rendered":"

CES 2017: Key trends<\/strong><\/a> — from jwtintelligence.com by Sheperd Laughlin<\/p>\n

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Fifty years since the inception of CES, \u201cconsumer electronics\u201d doesn\u2019t begin to describe the full scope of the event.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s no longer a technology show; it\u2019s a connected life show and an advertising and media show,\u201d said Shawn DuBravac of CTA, the trade organization that organizes CES. And it changes quickly: three years ago, he said, 20% of this year\u2019s exhibitors didn\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n

This year, among big tech companies Amazon was the clear winner\u2014though Amazon itself kept a low profile, letting others announce a multitude of new uses for Alexa, its virtual assistant.<\/p>\n

Electric and self-driving cars were everywhere. Taking a page from Apple and Microsoft, which pulled out of CES years ago, Tesla sat out the conference as rival auto makers tried to mount convincing challenges to its dominance of the electric car market.<\/p>\n

What about exciting new \u201cgadgets\u201d? Farhad Manjoo of the New York Times declared them \u201cgone\u201d in December, killed by the iPhone and cheap knockoffs. Category-changing devices were in short supply at the show, and Alexa, this year\u2019s most talked-about product, was actually an invisible service.<\/p>\n

But there were signs that Internet of Things products that had once been isolated were talking to each other in interesting new ways. And devices aimed at specific needs and populations\u2014from new mothers to vacationers to the disabled\u2014showed that gadgets might not be done for just yet.<\/p>\n

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