Steven Sinofsky recently wrote about technologies labeled as toys and recounts a list of innovations over his career labeled as such. He posits that “it can be said that being labeled a toy is necessary, but not sufficient, to become the next big thing.”
His article begs the question, what innovations are being labeled toys today? Here are 10 innovations I see currently being labeled a toy:
- Virtual Reality
- Augmented Reality
- Drones
- Autonomous Vehicles
- Wearables
- SmartHome
- SmartWatches
- Home Robots
- IoT generally (especially outside of Industrial applications)
- AI (still!)
What else would you add?
