I thought that was pretty reasonable from a 1988 perspective. They couldn't predict that a generic protocol (the mobile web) would replace all those special pu

I thought that was pretty reasonable from a 1988 perspective. They couldn't predict that a generic protocol (the mobile web) would replace all those special purpose functions but everything they showed was possible less than 10 years later in an even smaller form factor. As for turning on the oven remotely. I'm old enough to remember when oven timers were actually used, for the simple reason that not every household had a microwave. Our particular use case: We four kids came home on the school bus to our rural house, and parents were gone to work at the other place. Dinner was in the oven, timed to be heated up and ready to eat when we got home. With a good half hour to budget to go from cold (or room temperature) to piping hot, the timer made sense. Now it's just 3 or 4 minutes in the microwave and done.