What the AI Pin misunderstands about Star Trek

Humane and Bill Gates are leaping forward into a future without apps that resembles the sci-fi world of Star Trek. What do we need to do to catch up with their vision?

Daley Wilhelm
UX Collective
Published in
9 min readFeb 9, 2024

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A woman holding a dragon fruit taps a white Ai Pin attached to her shirt.
“Computer, what is this strange, alien fruit?” Image from — https://hu.ma.ne/aipin

Humane’s Ai Pin “marks a new beginning for personal consumer technology, offering users the ability to take…

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