Waiting for the new new thing

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The smartphone wars are over, and everybody won. Life without our phones is almost unthinkable. 
But now that the gold rush is over, and we’ve entered the mopping-up phase – what next? What is, as Michael Lewis once put it, the new new thing? Conventional wisdom gives us five major contenders: AI, AR/VR, biotech, blockchains, and drones.