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AI-Designed Wireless: When Networks Start Building Themselves

October 28, 2025

By Futurist Thomas Frey

NVIDIA just announced something that sounds incremental but is actually revolutionary: America’s first AI-native 6G wireless stack, developed with T-Mobile, Cisco, and others. It’s already operational on their Santa Clara campus, making actual phone calls, delivering 7× greater cell capacity and 3.5× higher power efficiency than legacy networks.

Here’s what the press releases won’t tell you: this isn’t just a faster network. It’s evidence that AI is now designing the fundamental infrastructure of the internet itself. And the implications are staggering.

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The Coming Wave of Smartphone Peripherals: How Add-Ons Will Change Everything

October 27, 2025

By Futurist Thomas Frey

On a busy street in Seoul, a teenager slips on a pair of lightweight AR glasses synced to her smartphone. The world around her bursts into a personalized data overlay: subway times, restaurant reviews, real-time translation of passing conversations, and a holographic friend waving from another city. Nearby, a street artist wears fingertip sensors that record his brush strokes, converting them instantly into digital art NFTs. Down the block, a vendor checks air-quality data from a clip-on environmental scanner attached to her phone.

None of these devices are phones in the traditional sense—they’re peripherals, and together they’re about to make the smartphone more powerful than any personal computer in history.

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AR glasses turn everywhere into a gaming environment

May 22, 2013

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There has been a lot of excitement around Google Glass, but the truth is, head-mounted displays that interact with the world around you are an area being aggressively explored by a number of companies. One of the primary areas of interest for these devices involves augmented reality. A group of former Valve employees have set out on their own to unveil a pair of glasses that they hope will be the future of augmented reality gaming.

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