> that somehow these little, for lack of a better word, toys are going to replace the actual machinery behind the products so many consume is demonstrably false

> that somehow these little, for lack of a better word, toys are going to replace the actual machinery behind the products so many consume is demonstrably false How old are you? I thought similar in the 1980's whenever I saw people tinkering with their toy PC's running DOS and Windows 3. They weren't going to replace MVS on an IBM mainframe, or VMS on a DEC, or VME on an ICL. The 'V' in those names stood for "virtual" -- how could PC's replace that?