TLDR: AI is rapidly evolving from “something you use” to “a ubiquitous, always on, always enabling ambient intelligence layer that orchestrates your life.” It will manage your calendar, adapt your environment, coach your health, and educate your children. All in real-time. An overlay that makes life “auto-magical”: adapting the world to your needs, without request.
The transition from “AI-as-app” to “AI-as-magic” is the single biggest experiential shift coming this decade.
This newsletter answers the question:
“What will AI ‘feel’ like in 2028? How will AI actually show up in our daily lives?
There are 5 distinct shifts coming simultaneously. Each one is already visible at the edges. Together, they rewrite what it will feel like to be alive in 2028.
Let’s dive in…
1. YOU WILL GIVE YOUR AI ACCESS TO EVERYTHING IN YOUR LIFE… I MEAN EVERYTHING
For 15 years, I’ve been talking about the day every human gets their own version of JARVIS: the AI from Iron Man that knows everything about Tony Stark and orchestrates his life in real time.
Inside of the next two years you’ll give your personal AI (your own JARVIS) access to ALL your data, all your interactions and your desires. The benefits from this level of disclosure will be so great that privacy concerns will dissolve… because the value is simply too enormous to refuse.
This week I massively upgraded Skippy’s capability and utility (Skippy is my OpenClaw agent). Powered by Opus 4.6 on two Mac Studios, sitting on top of Kimi K2.5. Connected Skippy to EVERYTHING possible… iMessage, WhatsApp, Google Drive, Calendar, email, Granola… and all of my files set up within an Andrej Kaparthy-style second-brain. The increase in “Feeling AGI” was palpable… and it’s only going to accelerate, which is the purpose of today’s newsletter.
Here’s the list of what your AI will consume…
· Listen to every phone conversation you have.
· Access to all your emails, every text, all meeting notes.
· Visual/auditory data feeds from your smart glasses.
· Every camera inside your home and every sensor on your body: continuously being monitored.
· Every calendar entry and every preference.
· Your financial transactions, investment portfolios, and spending patterns.
· Your genome, your blood work, your sleep architecture: every biological signal.
When your AI has all of this data and context, it stops being a chatbot and starts being a chief of staff.
Imagine this: You finish breakfast with your family and head towards the front door. Your AI knows your schedule and has already seen you moving toward the exit. Before you step outside, a Cybercab is already waiting in your driveway.
But here’s where it goes from convenient to auto-magical: your AI cross-referenced your Oura ring sleep data and knows you slept poorly, so it summoned a Cybercab configured with a reclined seat for a restorative nap on your commute.
You never asked for it. You never even thought about it. The world simply conformed itself to you. That’s the shift.
AI stops being a tool you reach for and becomes an invisible layer that anticipates you: making decisions on your behalf that you didn’t even know needed to be made.
Here’s another one: You’re preparing for a board meeting tomorrow. Your AI has already read every document in the shared drive, summarized the three contentious items, drafted your talking points based on your stated positions, and pre-scheduled a 10-minute call with your CFO because it detected a discrepancy in the Q2 numbers that you’ll want resolved before the meeting. You wake up and it’s all waiting in your briefing. No prompt. No request. Just done.
The shift isn’t from an “okay AI” to a “better AI.”. It’s from AI you talk to, to AI that acts on your behalf, before you even think to ask.
So, what does this mean? The winners of the next decade won’t be the apps with the best UIs. They’ll be the agents with the most trusted access to your data. The smartphone era rewarded app design. The agent era rewards context depth – and trust.
2. YOUR ENVIRONMENT STARTS ADAPTING TO YOU
Right now, you walk into a room and tweak it to your needs: adjusting the thermostat, the music, the lighting. In the very near future, your environment will magically adjust itself to your desires.
Sensors in your home, combined with continuous biometric feeds from your wearables, mean your home and workplace knows what you need before you do.
Music shifts based on whether your heart rate variability says you’re stressed or flowing.
Temperature nudges based on your metabolism.
Lighting moves from cool blue in the morning to warm amber two hours before your biological bedtime.
Did you have a stressful day? Your AI starts playing your favorite comedian on the TV as you walk through the door.
Your bedroom detects you’re approaching sleep, dims every screen in the house,
locks the doors, and shifts your phone to “Do Not Disturb,” all as you brush your
teeth.
And then there’s food, which may be the most underestimated transformation of the next 3-4 years.
Today we snack, we eat what we like. But what about a future in which your AI partners with your kitchen robot to feed you exactly what your body needs?
Your future meals are not based on a whim. They’re optimized specifically for your physiology, in that moment: your taste profile, your current blood chemistry (hydration, protein levels, vitamin levels) and balancing any nutrient deficit.
Your AI knows you have an upcoming workout, and adds extra protein and creatine to your lunch, again automagically.
No menu. No guessing. No asking. The meal shows up dialed in to the biochemistry of the person eating it.
Your home becomes a biological dashboard. Your environment becomes a real-time response to your body’s needs. A living space that literally keeps you healthier.
3. AUGMENTED REALITY CHANGES EVERYTHING
This is one element of what’s coming that most people underestimate.
Smart glasses (from Meta, Apple, and a wave of startups) are about to make augmented reality feel the way smartphones felt in 2010: inevitable. And once the display layer is live, everything about how you move through your day changes.
Travel: Interested in the history of a city while on vacation? Walk down the streets of Rome and your AI overlays historical imagery on every building you pass. The Forum reassembles itself in your field of view. The name and story of the artist whose sculpture you just walked past hovers in mid-air. The language on the menu in front of you translates before you blink.
Shopping: Shopping collapses in on itself, going from slow and frustrating to fast and fun. Imagine the following… You’ve been invited to a friend’s June wedding in Long Island, New York. Your AI knows the current fashions, the temperature that day and your budget. Without prompting, your version of JARVIS spins up a runway fashion show before your eyes. A dozen avatars of you, wearing different outfits, parade before your eyes. You pick one. It ships. Of course, it fits perfectly because your AI maintains a continuously updated 3D model of your body.
Education: Education transforms just as radically. Your child looks at a math problem through their glasses, and their AI tutor doesn’t just solve it… it identifies the specific concept they’re stuck on, generates a visual explanation calibrated to their learning style, and connects it to something they care about. A kid who loves basketball suddenly understands parabolic arcs. A child fascinated by Minecraft intuitively grasps geometry. Every child gets a world-class private tutor, 24/7, for free.
So, what does this all mean? Historical overlays everywhere you walk. Menus, signs, labels translated in real time. Commerce that happens without any interruption pattern: no ads, no pop-ups, no friction.
The “attention economy”—the entire scaffolding of advertising, interruption, and persuasion that funds today’s internet—starts to collapse. The new economy is built around agents making purchases on your behalf, not ads nudging you toward them.
4. AI GETS PHYSICAL: ON YOUR STREET, IN YOUR HOME
For the last few years, AI has been mostly a digital experience on your phone or computer screen. By 2028, AI will be walking out of the digital realm and into your driveway, your kitchen, and your workplace.
Autonomous vehicles go mainstream
At least five autonomous vehicle companies are already operating or actively testing on the streets of major U.S. cities. Waymo is already serving millions of rides. Tesla’s Cybercab is rolling out. Zoox (by Amazon), Volkswagen’s autonomous ID. Buzz (partnered with Uber), and Uber/Nvidia’s L4 platform expanding to 28 cities by 2028 are right behind them.
The generation of humans who will never need a driver’s license is already in elementary and middle school.
Humanoid robots move in
This is one that still sounds like science fiction, but it won’t for much longer. Figure, Tesla’s Optimus, 1X’s Neo, Unitree, Apptronik. These companies are shipping. And unit economics are collapsing.
The first humanoid robots are already working in warehouses, factories, and pilot homes: unmodified, no special infrastructure required.
You’ve heard me speak about Optimum (Tesla), Figure and Neo (1X) extensively, but there are many more. Recently, Apptronik just raised $520M at a $5B+ valuation with Google DeepMind as a backer.
In China, Unitree has taken the lead position. The company has filed for a Shanghai IPO, seeking to raise about ~$610 million to fund AI model development, new robot platforms, and manufacturing expansion. The Hangzhou-based humanoid/quadruped robot maker posted a 674% jump in adjusted net profit to $90M in 2025, becoming the world’s top humanoid robot seller.
Within 36 months, a humanoid robot in your kitchen will feel as normal as a smartphone on your counter.
The “AI hype” narrative ends the moment the robot cleans your kitchen while the Cybercab waits in the driveway. We’re 18 to 24 months from that exact picture.
5. YOUR HEALTH BECOMES A 24/7 AI-COACHED OPERATION
The annual physical is already obsolete. It’s just that most of the healthcare system hasn’t caught up yet.
Right now, the average biohacker is carrying three to four continuous health data streams: an Oura ring or Whoop, an Apple Watch on the wrist and a continuous glucose monitor on their arm. That’s over 100 biometrics a day, every day, feeding into an AI that can see patterns no human clinician ever could.
What this enables, in the next 24 months, is a shift from reactive healthcare (”I feel bad, I go to the doctor, they run tests”) to continuous optimization: “my AI notices something drifting and nudges me before I ever feel it.”
You just sat on a Zoom call for 90 minutes. Your AI pings you: “Do 20 squats your glucose is trending up and movement now saves you a spike.”
You’re about to take the elevator. Your AI suggests the stairs because your Zone 2 minutes are low this week.
Your hydration score is drifting. Your AI tells you to drink 16oz before your 2pm meeting because it already knows how you present when dehydrated.
Your AI detects a subtle shift in your heart rate variability pattern over the past 72 hours, cross-references it with your recent travel and sleep data, and recommends you take a specific anti-inflammatory supplement and schedule a blood draw — three weeks before you would have noticed anything was off.
You’re about to order your third coffee. Your AI gently intervenes: “Your cortisol is already elevated from this morning’s meeting. Switch to green tea, you’ll actually focus better.”
This is not a wellness app. It’s a preventive medicine engine operating on you, continuously, forever.
In 10 years, we won’t go to the doctor when we feel sick. We’ll be continuously optimized, and the rare visit will be for something AI flagged before we knew it existed.
THE BROADER PICTURE
Here’s the meta-pattern underneath all five of these shifts:
Today, AI is an app. Something you open. Something you prompt. Something you use.
In the next 2 to 3 years, AI becomes a ubiquitous, always on, always enabling. Something that surrounds you. Something that acts on your behalf. Something you stop noticing… the same way you stopped noticing electricity in the walls of your home.
And that’s the real signal. Transformative technologies eventually disappear into the background of life. The telephone was miraculous in 1900 and invisible by 1950. The internet was astonishing in 1995 and ambient by 2010. AI will follow the same arc, but compressed into a fraction of the time.
Here’s the question for you: are you positioning yourself to thrive in this new era, or scrambling to catch up?
Are you going AI-first in every part of your life? Are you connecting your data so your agents can actually serve you? Are you experimenting with the tools that will feel primitive in 18 months but will look like genius in hindsight for being early?
The next 24 months are going to feel, to anyone paying attention, like the single largest shift in the daily experience of being alive since the smartphone. Position yourself accordingly.
To an Abundant (and AWESOME) future,
Peter
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As long as we remember that "AI" is NOT synonymous with "Cloud" it's all good. If we continue to conflate the two, very predictably bad things happen.
In book three (might have been four) of Rama series Clark writes "They engineered themselves out of existence." In answer to the query on what happened to the species whose colors had disappeared from the timelapsed galactic advanced species map the woman had been shown. Using AI in the ways you propose sounds suspiciously like one path of detrimental engineering. All the skills and knowledge we delegate to AI assistant will atrophy and the scenario depicted in "Against the Fall of Night", where the robots and automated cities can no longer fix themselves and humans don't have the desire or skills to do the repairs will become much more plausible.
Two or three generations may flourish but humans too easily become complacent and decline into decadence. I'll use AI but I won't allow it to run my life or compromise my privacy and anonymity.