Inspiration for a century of useless gadgets

If I have one wish for 2020, it's that we see an end to the flood of devices that persuade customers to buy a product that needs even more products to make it work. Instead of being the “Uber for X,” like every software company used to like, now IoT and gadget makers are striving to an even less appealing standard: becoming the Keurig of their niche marketplace.

The Keurig concept was simple: purchase the coffee maker....