Every year one or two breakout technologies capture the imagination of consumers. Eighteen months ago it was Pokémon Go, the first augmented reality mobile app to really catch fire. A few years before that it was 3D printers.
Last year it clearly was digital assistants – Amazon Echo, Google Home and others – that tapped cloud-connected artificial intelligence to respond to voice commands.
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