Everywhere you’ve looked in recent years, someone was promising The Next Big Thing After Smartphones. Yes, they would say, the iPhone is the most ubiquitous product in the history of consumer electronics, and the smartphone reprogrammed the world in ways absolutely unparalleled. But have you seen this voice assistant that makes Morgan Freeman give you driving directions, or these oversized glasses that let you play ping-pong with someone from all over the world? This it’s the future

We are in a time of downsizing in the tech industry, as businesses of all kinds grapple with a tough economy and the fact that the pandemic wasn’t so much an accelerator of future trends as it was, well, a pandemic. that forced everyone to change their lives drastically and practically overnight. The more…