"It’s time we return to making the world better rather than living in fear. CES 2022 will kick off 2022 in messy fashion, but it will be chock full of innovation and full of entrepreneurs and businesses. We will all be taking risks. But without risk there is no innovation."

Gary Shapiro, president and CEO of the Consumer Technology Association, writing in an op-ed this week in the Las Vegas Review-Journal under the headline, “CES Will and Must Go On in Las Vegas”