Artificial intelligence will destroy smartphones and maybe the screen completely
you wake up You don’t check your phone Instead, you activate various wearables that are embedded in your body and carry out a series of conversations with inanimate objects. you make Minority Report– In the style of movements in the air. You blink a lot, everything lights up, tasks are done, the day begins. It turns out that you don’t need a smartphone at all.
Many people make big predictions about artificial intelligence. With critical thinking it’s the end of the world, and aren’t you worried about careers careers careers? In turn, we are confused. Not because we don’t believe that doomsday scenarios are coming. We just think they’re missing the most obvious and visible way AI is reshaping society. Currently, we live and die in the harsh and cruel glare of the screen. They are everywhere. And in the age of artificial intelligence, they simply won’t be.
In other words, AI doesn’t just destroy the phone. If done right, it will completely free us from the oppression of the screen.
Why aren’t more people talking about this? At least Sam Altman kind of is. When pressed about OpenAI’s new collaboration with renowned Apple designer Jony Ive at a recent dinner, he allowed: “You don’t get a new computing paradigm very often.” That’s true, and probably why more people don’t risk it. New technology always seems impossible, until it’s inevitable. A smartphone was once impossible. A pocket computer? With programs and network connections? Those poor guys at General Magic had this idea and a prototype about 13 years before Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone. The technology just wasn’t ready. Neither was the general public.
That is: we are probably 15 years away from the big screen. But it will happen, and you may have noticed that the process has already begun. We are less texting and actually talking with our AI to talkto them more. The side button of our iPhones? Sorry, stupid Siri – it now launches the ChatGPT voice instead. Soon, we’ll be signing up for AI agents, installing AI speakers in our homes, and attaching AI-powered recording devices to our vests. Eventually, as we and they interact with the world, we will begin to wonder, and then demand: Why aren’t advanced AI interfaces everywhere, in everything, in our cars and smart gadgets, in info booths and driving? They’re called chatbots for a reason: Voice is their killer app.
But to topple what’s come before, as always, an actual product is needed. So, look at OpenAI first, because their game is to lose. Last year, Altman poached many of Apple’s wearables manufacturers and developers and put Ive in charge of them to create secret designs. No one can say for sure what they are working on, but please. we know they know These kids are obsessed with movies hewhere Joaquin Phoenix gets caught with a Scarlett Johansson-voiced chatbot. Altman seems to have even tried to steal Scarjo’s precious voice for ChatGPT, like a modern-day Ursula. If it’s going to dominate the world and its oceans of AI data, then OpenAI needs hardware, and so, yeah, damn Scargo, you can bet his guys are prototyping an anti-smartphone device, some sort of always-on companion with an even shrill Fombat voice.
Do as in heAn inconspicuous in-ear device? According to documents filed as part of an ongoing trademark dispute, no. Apparently it might not even be a wearable. Frankly, this shocks us. With AirPods, its latest major hardware innovation, Apple trained entire generations to float their ears full of little bits, meaning the pieces are perfectly in place for a next-gen AI-optimized form factor. And you don’t hire Ivo to start from scratch. He is a reformer, not a radical.
Or the idea that we still somehow need screens? Apple seems to think so: Like Microsoft and Samsung and many others, it’s building “smart home” offerings and adding left and right displays. Meanwhile, Meta is investing or reinvesting in smart glasses. (We don’t care how “good” they are—glasses will never be universal.) Even new devices like the Rabbit r1, which are voice-based and don’t run apps, signal a “movement from the traditional screen-based paradigm,” as one AI executive put it. It still has a screen old habits etc
The fact is that screens are always good. In a sharply divided world, most people — including, 74 percent of teenagers — seem to agree on that. Screens are clumsy, a necessary evil, an intermediary step. Some may stick with it, but they were never meant to last for the simple reason that they reduce our interaction with very important machines.
So imagine the world after the release. No stains, no cracks. No SMS thumbs, no neck pain. Video and image do not shrink, they explode. Released from the vertical position, they are reflected into our eyes and spread over surfaces. Everything will change, every map, every interior. If you thought audio tours were lame, just wait. The world will become a museum, and we, its humble patrons, will walk in a daze, point at this, stare at this, leave the page, and talk, talk, talk. to talk To cars, to everything, to nothing, to ourselves.
