In Response to “[…] is a toy”

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:

  1. Virtual Reality
  2. Augmented Reality
  3. Drones
  4. Autonomous Vehicles
  5. Wearables
  6. SmartHome
  7. SmartWatches
  8. Home Robots
  9. IoT generally (especially outside of Industrial applications)
  10. AI (still!)

What else would you add?

 

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