I just wanted to make a couple of comments; 1. I think that when something is new, like Google Glass or occulus rift, we (as nerds) tend to think it's the futur

I just wanted to make a couple of comments; 1. I think that when something is new, like Google Glass or occulus rift, we (as nerds) tend to think it's the future because it hasn't been possible before before we have quite worked out when it's most applicable. Giant displays are awesome when you're brainstorming a topic with people in the room, which is what maker spaces seem to be about. I can see glass being good for things like surgery, where you need to concentrate your attention on something, but would like some extra data to be easily available. VR might be a substitute for live brainstorming sessions, and it might allow you to visualise in new ways. But latency is going to be killer across remote locations, and that's a big challenge in terms of infrastructure. 2. I'd imagine as these types of techniques become commonplace, we'll have to learn more stats. You could also apply clustering and neural nets to a lot of data sets, but yeah - maybe we'll all have to become statisticians.