Last week, The Wall Street Journal’s personal technology columnist Joanna Stern wrote about devices her two-year old son would never know. The list of once-cutting-edge, soon-to-be-laughable technologies included oversize smartphones, cords, ports, dedicated cameras, smart speakers, DVDs, chip credit cards and keys. Each of these reasonably serviceable items is on the way to being replaced in a way that will make the world a marginally—if not spectacularly—better place. Human beings are good at improving technology that way....

Source: Wall Street Journal May 23, 2019 16:18 UTC