"You wake up. You do not check your phone. Instead, you activate various wearables embedded in your body and have a series of conversations with inanimate objects. You make Minority Report -style gestures in the air. You blink a lot. Things power on, tasks get done, the day begins. It turns out you have no need for a smartphone at all."
"Lots of people are making big predictions about AI. Critical-thinking this, end-of-the-world that, and aren't you worried about jobs jobs jobs? For our part, we're confused. Not because we don't believe the doomsday scenarios are coming. We just think they miss the most obvious, most visible way AI will remake society. Right now, we live and die in the harsh, merciless glare of screens. They're everywhere. And in an AI age, they simply, mercifully, won't be."
"Why aren't more people talking about this? Sam Altman, at least, sort of is. When pressed at a recent dinner about OpenAI's new partnership with famed Apple designer Jony Ive, he allowed this: "You don't get a new computing paradigm very often." It's true, and probably why more people aren't risking it. New tech always feels impossible, right up until it's inevitable."
Morning routines will shift from phones to embedded wearables, voice, gestures, and ambient interfaces that power devices and complete tasks without screens. AI will change the dominant computing paradigm by moving interactions from screens to conversational and sensor-driven modalities. Present fears about jobs and doomsday scenarios overlook the more immediate, visible change of removing screens from everyday life. Technological transitions often feel impossible until they become inevitable, as the smartphone example shows with decades-long lag between prototype and mass adoption. Industry leaders acknowledge a new paradigm is emerging. The Great De-Screening could unfold over the next decade and a half.
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