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The Eight Objects: How AI Will Transform Your EveryDay Touchpoints

October 23, 2025

By Futurist Thomas Frey

The revolution won’t introduce itself with a handshake and a humanoid grin. It will slip into your life through the eight most ordinary things you already touch: your phone, your vehicle, your refrigerator, your mirror, your bed, your clothes, your watch, and your home. By 2040, these everyday artifacts stop being inert tools and become co-pilots—anticipatory, opinionated, and relentlessly optimizing. The future doesn’t arrive as a robot at your door. It arrives as your door.

Architecture, Augmented Reality, City Planning, Science & Technology News

Digital twins could form the “end game” for optimum smart city design

September 19, 2019

Digital twinning technology can transform how cities are designed, monitored and managed

Research finds that urban digital twinning and city modelling technology is having a transformative effect on how cities are designed, monitored, and managed.

Urban modelling and digital twins, in particular, will form the “end game” of the smart cities journey to optimised design and the ultra-efficient operation of entire cities, according to ABI Research.

Its research findings reveal that the installed base of urban digital twin and city modelling deployments will rise from a handful to more than 500 by 2025.

The global tech market advisory firm said the technology is helping to transform how cities are designed, monitored, and managed and optimising the holistic performance of cities across verticals in terms of energy management, mobility, resilience, sustainability, and economic growth.

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Analysis, Science & Technology News

We could all have ‘digital twins’ that make decisions for us within 5 years

September 25, 2014

Talking to your digital twin could one day be like looking in the mirror.

“When you and I die, our kids aren’t going to go to our tombstones, they’re going to fire up our digital twins and talk to them,” says John Smart, futurist and founder of the Acceleration Studies Foundation. Smart uses many names for the technology he predicts — digital twin, cyber-self, personal agent — but the concept stays the same: a computer-based version of you. (Video)

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