It is 2020: - Speech recognition has acquired acceptable (par with human) accuracy. This has been a great boon for the digitally excluded. It has also increase

It is 2020: - Speech recognition has acquired acceptable (par with human) accuracy. This has been a great boon for the digitally excluded. It has also increased the relative prevalence of text based commands in the operating system, not that too many people notice. - CNC machines that can operate on anything strong now require a license, it was too easy to make guns with them and on balance governments decided that was the important thing. - VR headsets have failed to gain market share. They were neat, but only if you stayed in one place. Elite Dangerous and co' weren't able to support a physical product of that cost by themselves. There are some fantastic applications of the technology, but you need to find an old headset to play. - Linux is still waiting for it's year of the desktop and still looks like a poor knock-off of Windows. - Turing complete systems aren't banned yet, but it looks increasingly likely as phones and tablets start to dominate the marketplace.