My hope at least, is that this is a transitory phase. Once AI gets good enough at interpreting voice commands, handwriting, and physical gestures, there will be less and less of a need to interact with the ugly glowing screen. Hopefully with the next generation of sensors, projectors and materials, and AI, the digital will just get out of the way and assist when needed (or seamlessly blend with the physical world).<p>Immersive tech is cool, but invisible tech is even cooler. Wouldn&#x27;t it be cool if you could manage your AWS instances from a beautiful garden out in the country, using nothing but your voice and some gestures and without having to look at a clunky old laptop (maybe a small notebook-like pad of e-ink, or perhaps an image projected from your watch).<p>Or when James Joyce uses a big word on your physical copy, you can just point at it and hear the definition. Or when writing down notes on your notebook, with pen and paper, your Google watch can instantly recognize an event and set an alarm.<p><i>That&#x27;s</i> the future I want to live in. In some ways, that&#x27;s the world the first technologists envisioned: one in which technology does the dreadful <i>for us</i>, not a world in which we&#x27;re glued onto a screen consuming ads and producing clickbait 24&#x2F;7.