Tuning into NAB

If you've seen the hit movie The Matrix, you know that the year 1999 is a sham, a virtual construct devised by artificial intelligence to lull us into submission. Would-be marauders from the digital world are advised to drop by the National Association of Broadcasters trade show, held annually in the suitably unreal city of Las Vegas; there, all the tools needed for world domination by stealth are snazzily displayed in two convention centers.