Has it occurred to tech people:
The next big mainstream thing may not be anything at all?
IoT adoption is lukewarm at best and most IoT devices are "I bought them and now I replace them once every 10 years" type things.
VR and wearables haven't panned out except amongst nerds.
There really aren't any "must-haves" being made.
Moore's law is finally sputtering out, look at what's going on at Intel.
We *may* well be looking at a future where there /is/ no "next big thing" for a long while.
"BUT DEEP LEARNING SHOWS PROMISE."
1) passing around training sets isn't "deep learning"
2) Moore's Law sputtering out affects that too
Also, most people don't have as much income (accounted for inflation/COL) as they used to. =/
@Elizafox as a person working with data intelligence, machine learning and deep learning, I can say that we are just dealing with the tip of the iceberg. As more and more architectures and tools get commoditized, we see them applied to many problems that were considered unsolvable before and I can see many many fields where this change has just began. For instance I'm working on one of the many greenfields opened in the recent years and we just struck the crust
