Core77

Early on in the SF Chronicle's article about next week's Connecting07 event in San Francisco, apropos of nothing, is the assertion

"It is very much like the Olympics," said Bill Moggridge.

We've removed even more context here of course, but why not check it out for yourself? Is Moggridge telling the writer that the International Flavour of the event makes it Olympian? Or is there a spectator sport/Swiss time/doping scandal/global politics/media saturation/misplaced patriotism/demonstration sport aspect to the impending conference that we are ill-prepared for? Sadly, the article doesn't convey what the point was, and instead goes on to discuss two books released by designers who are featured at the conference.