Tech Industry: What if you don’t have to search anything on your phone? The era of ambient intelligence is coming

News India Live, Digital Desk: Today is 1 January 2026. This morning we all must have opened our eyes with the light of our phones. Some opened WhatsApp to send New Year messages, while others opened Instagram to check their status. But think, can there come a time when all these apps disappear from the screen of our smartphone? It may sound like something from a science-fiction film, but the world’s largest tech company Amazon has made a claim about the future that will force you to think. Amazon experts believe that we are soon going to enter the era of ‘Ambient Intelligence’. What is this Ambient Intelligence? If understood in simple language, Ambient Intelligence means the technology that is present around you but is not visible. Today we open apps for every little thing whether it is paying electricity bill, ordering food or booking a taxi. In the future, Amazon says that AI will become so smart that it will do the work just by asking or gesturing. You don’t need to search for an app like Swiggy or Uber; You just have to talk to your environment or your device will automatically guess what you need at that moment. Apps will be replaced by ‘invisible’ digital companions. According to Amazon’s vision, the coming time will be of ‘voice and gesture’. Smart assistants like Alexa will not be limited to just listening to the voice, but they will become a part of your lifestyle. Apps will gradually disappear as systems will become so integrated that the need for separate software will disappear. The smartphone will remain just a medium, but all the work will be done by the hidden intelligence. Will this change be a pleasant one? On one hand, it gives relief that now one will not have to drag fingers on the phone screen for hours, on the other hand, questions also arise in the mind regarding digital privacy. If a technology is keeping an eye on our needs all the time, will our own privacy be safe? Looking at the speed with which we are introducing AI into our lives today in 2026, it would not be wrong to say that the ‘era of apps’ is probably on the decline. In the coming years, our phone may become not just a screen but a part of our thoughts. For now, we have a lot of apps, but this prediction of Amazon has definitely opened a window that the future will probably be free from the slavery of mobile screens.