Shelly Palmer has guided thousands of insight-hungry executives on tours of the halls and show floors at CES since the mid-1990s.
And, he believes, the 2019 installment of the annual consumer electronics assembly – which was held by the Consumer Technology Association and attracted over 182,000 attendees and 4,400 exhibitors – reached a new low when it came to the gap between technological hyperbole and tangible value.
“There’s a lot of hype here – more than I’ve ever seen at a CES, to be fair, ever,” said Palmer, the chief executive of The Palmer Group, a strategic advisory, business development...