Comment by autoexec

Smart monitors are being widely sold already and getting more common. The fact that they generate continuous income for the manufacturer after the sale is too tempting for many companies to abandon entirely.

Most likely we'll see non-smart monitors only sold in bulk to business customers, or as highly overpriced displays with limited features (like we do now with TVs) or there will be enterprise options in software (probably though management software) to disable some (but not all) of the advertising, screen-capturing, and AI functions which is just what we see now with Windows and other hardware used by enterprise customers.