[yterdy]

To answer what can be done, as an industry: stop overfunding and overemphasizing attempts to leverage cutting-edge technology, with all its unknowns and bugs, into The Answer To All Our Problems. Instead, take existing, well-understood technology, and fulfill a dream deferred. A concrete example: back in 2012, what was all the rage? Cloud. Everything's going to be in The Cloud. The Cloud is going to solve all our problems. (Aside: A decade on, couldn't it be argued that cloud-enabled SaaS has become the source of a lot of our problems? Oops.)

Then, a guy in his garage goes, "Oh, btw, did you know that we could totally take cell phone screens and make relatively cheap virtual reality headsets with them?"

"If only we had~" mindset versus "Look what we can do with-!" mindset.