Artificial Intelligence (AI) will enable interaction with objects
without the need for a smartphone screen.
The screen age started in the 1950s, when TV entered
mainstream popular culture. The number of screens in
households continued to multiply with the arrival of PCs,
and (more recently) with smartphones and tablets.
In 2011, sales of smartphones and tablets surpassed
PC sales.4
Incidentally, research conducted by Ericsson
ConsumerLab in the same year indicated that smartphone
owners in New York and Paris spent more time in front of
screens than any other activity.
But constantly having a screen in the palm of your hand is not
always a practical solution. After 60 years in the screen age,
1 in 2 smartphones users now thinks that smartphones will be
a thing of the past, and that this will happen in just 5 years.