Actually my money is on people ditching their smartphones and going back to novels. All the "search for restaurants in my area", etc. used to be done before going out the door, using a phone book, maps, and some planning; there's no reason we can't go back to that way of doing things.
There's absolutely something great about navigating the world the old fashioned way. There's an idea that all humans have an evolutionary desire to return to the sea (which might be all the big population centers are near the coast). In a similar way, I think even deep in the future, all humans will have some innate desire to return to an analogue way of doing things. But I also think tech has undeniable advantages and will never really go away.
This AI pin sounds ahead of our time for a certainty. It's so far ahead that humanity has no purpose for it, or desire for it. Your description also sounds like a potential tech disaster waiting to happen, where the user is the ultimate victim. What could go wrong without an interface, a way to change or update without another device present? Perhaps they didn't brainstorm this idea quite enough before deciding to produce it.
I'm actually skeptical the AI Pin is even that far ahead of its time. As someone pointed out on Twitter, you can configure an Apple watch to basically have the same functionality (minus the ability to project graphics onto your hand): https://x.com/oliviali_/status/1727361448236511379
Actually my money is on people ditching their smartphones and going back to novels. All the "search for restaurants in my area", etc. used to be done before going out the door, using a phone book, maps, and some planning; there's no reason we can't go back to that way of doing things.
There's absolutely something great about navigating the world the old fashioned way. There's an idea that all humans have an evolutionary desire to return to the sea (which might be all the big population centers are near the coast). In a similar way, I think even deep in the future, all humans will have some innate desire to return to an analogue way of doing things. But I also think tech has undeniable advantages and will never really go away.
This AI pin sounds ahead of our time for a certainty. It's so far ahead that humanity has no purpose for it, or desire for it. Your description also sounds like a potential tech disaster waiting to happen, where the user is the ultimate victim. What could go wrong without an interface, a way to change or update without another device present? Perhaps they didn't brainstorm this idea quite enough before deciding to produce it.
I'm actually skeptical the AI Pin is even that far ahead of its time. As someone pointed out on Twitter, you can configure an Apple watch to basically have the same functionality (minus the ability to project graphics onto your hand): https://x.com/oliviali_/status/1727361448236511379