The Tech Rapture? Why Tuesday Sept. 9 is the nexus of all things high-tech

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 7, 2014
Updated June 18, 2025
4 min

Everything is happening on Tuesday Sept. 9 in the world of technology and gaming. It feels like a nexus of events that are somehow all tied together.

And while days like this used to seem busy for just tech journalists or Silicon Valley, now the whole world is watching. I think of it as the Rapture of technology, or the final comeuppance of four decades of Moore’s Law and the convergence of computing, communications, and mobile technology. Let’s hope it’s not going to be a big disappointment. With billions of people on the internet, the audience for this day’s events will be so much bigger.

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Written by

Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.