What&#x27;s fascinating to me is that now, 14 years after the Segway failed to take over the world and became indelibly associated with upper-middle-class nerds, similar technology is now 90% less expensive, has found a more socially-acceptable form factor, and is actually becoming associated with celebrity tastemakers.<p>It would be quite the irony if the breathless hype about the Segway circa 2000 ended up being realized a decade and a half later, without the Segway.