I don’t see problems with a monitor “smart” enough to be able to connect to devices wirelessly. That seems fine. As soon as the thing sprouts a UI and can do t

I don’t see problems with a monitor “smart” enough to be able to connect to devices wirelessly. That seems fine. As soon as the thing sprouts a UI and can do things on its own you’ve got problems, though… this means that it has an onboard computer, and probably not a good one — these types of devices tend to have “smarts” on par with those of ancient low-to-midrange Android smartphones from 6+ years ago, because that’s what can be bolted in at almost no extra cost. That lack of overhead in power means that the device has a short lifespan right out of the box. Web apps continue to get heavier and more resource intensive and will quickly make it inadequate for such basic things as Google Docs. The manufacturer also won’t support it for more than a couple years because nobody wants to take the extra time and energy to write software lean enough to run on old weak hardware. So if “smart monitors” are to be a success, they’re going to need to do two things: 1. Don’t use such unreasonably cheap and underpowered “smarts” 2. Put the “smarts” on a module or card that can easily be swapped out so when it inevitably gets slow as mud you can upgrade it Alternatively web app devs could make efficiency more of a priority and manufacturers could continue to provide updates for a decade+, but both of those seem highly unlikely.