Spatial computing, AR, and brain-computer interfaces. Glasses replace phones as the interface; implants restore movement and speech; the screen dissolves into the world.
Emerging Real but not yet at scale. The effects described are expected rather than observed. Largest effect expected 2028–2045.
Second-order effects
The smartphone's twenty-year reign ends; accessibility becomes the first mass market for implants; attention capture gets a new surface and regulation lags again.
Its neighbourhood
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Frictions it intensifies
These pressures get worse, or reach more people.
Solutions it accelerates
Sectors it reshapes
How to track it
If this trend is real, these are the numbers that will show it first.