I don’t think we’ll ever get to the sci-fi world where everything is smart. (We’ll probably have a multi-purpose robot maid like the jetson’s before then). Things that do 1 thing are less useful than things that do many. That’s why we use smartphones instead of an iCalculator, iNotepad, iPod, etc.
I just think that the commoditization and ease of accessibility is a good thing for designers who want to branch out beyond the traditional purely physical design aspects, especially for what it offers in experimentation and learning.