All Screens or No Screens?
Two possible post-smartphone futures
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Apple’s recently unveiled Vision Pro presents an all-screen future, but generative AI’s growth in recent months has also hinted at ways we might move toward the opposite experience. What will our tech look like in 50 years?
First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic:
- Inside baseball’s desperate effort to save itself from irrelevance
- Why is everyone watching TV with the subtitles on?
- Phones at schools are a disaster.
Beyond Four Corners
If I am lucky, I will still be alive some 40 or 50 years from now—a senior citizen in an easy chair reliving my son’s birthdays, graduations, and
