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Spatial Computing: The Next Human-Computer Interface

September 25, 2025

By Futurist Thomas Frey

For decades, humans have interacted with computers through screens, keyboards, and touch. From the typewriter-inspired keyboard to the tap-and-swipe of the smartphone, each interface has defined not just how we use technology, but how we think, work, and live. Now, a new interface is emerging—one that could eclipse them all.

Spatial computing is on the verge of reshaping the way humans interact with digital information by merging the digital and physical into a seamless continuum. No longer trapped on screens, data will surround us, respond to us, and exist within the very spaces we inhabit.

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Will the Internet of Thing replace the web?

December 18, 2013

Apple stores can already pinpoint your location with unprecedented accuracy.

2014 will be the year that the “internet of things”—that effort to remotely control every object on earth—becomes visible in our everyday lives. But most of us don’t recognize just how far the internet of things will go, from souped-up gadgets that track our every move to a world that predicts our actions and emotions.

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The human body will be the next computer interface

March 6, 2013

Humans have been interfacing with machines for thousands of years.

You have probably heard a lot about wearables, living services, the Internet of Things, and smart materials by now. Designers are beginning to think about even weirder and wilder things, envisioning a future where evolved technology is embedded inside our digestive tracts, sense organs, blood vessels, and even our cells.

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Power of 10 Interface

May 10, 2011

Information at the speed of need

Futurist Thomas Frey: The distance between information and our brain is getting shorter.

Twenty years ago if you had access to a large information base, such as the Library of Congress, and someone asked you a series of questions, your task would have been to pour through the racks of books to come up with the answers. The time involved could have easily have been 10 hours per question.

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