https://medium.com/@andrewessex/future-suck-59bd0f37d8a7

Most folks go to Las Vegas to gamble. Others go to party, get married, or see Cher. I visited Vegas last week to check out a fully functional A.I.-enabled laundry folding machine.

I speak, of course, of the FoldiMate — a real thing, Ms. Kondo — perhaps the most compassionate of the shiny objects I fondled so you didn’t have to at the 52nd annual Consumer Electronics Show, aka CES 2019. For those who don’t know, CES is the enormous goat rodeo that every January finds some 180,000 international nerd pilgrims descending on Sin City to ooh and occasionally aah over a future-focused buffet of autonomous vehicles, augmented reality doodads, drones, transparent TVs, “teledildonic” sex toys, voice-activated bonbons, 5G vaporware, and, last and most certainly least, the obligatory A.I.-enabled laundry folding machine.