Right now we have a bunch of personal devices - smartphones. They evolved, become smaller, more beautiful and easier to interface. We have unprecedented freedom to customize their functions by installing additional applications.
But in fact, the essence of the device has not changed much. It was like an information stone (digging stick, etc.) and remained. ')
Solution idea
You used Tamagotchi (an avatar of which you need to constantly care)? So I think this device should become anti-antimagochi - in the sense that it learns to perceive us as its avatar and takes care of us.
Now I have to apply strength (including thinking) to customize my device. He cannot think for himself - but 100% should (I was already tired of thinking so much for myself). The OS of smartphones is simply obliged to acquire an AI, which will constantly monitor its owner (his habits, contacts, psycholinguistics, navigation on the network and using GPS) and on these patterns draw conclusions with predictions. To adapt to it on the one hand and to do better (to educate him or at least encourage him with various medals / badges) on the other.
Sites that are now custom-made themselves under the site profile, they are primitive because I can not access the data that the device has constantly interacting with the person.
Ideally, a smartphone should be ahead of my “thinking” (in chess, it constantly advances me) and give me the information I need at that moment several seconds before I realize that I need it - he should tell me what to do and not make me search it on the internet.
The smartphone should use different theories of personality description to build a psychological portrait of the dominant traits and begin to guess the host’s desires, monitor its emotional states (through catching words in the chat) and if it’s bad to interfere immediately to show possible solutions. It should constantly update the tag map of interests and offer only important news and events. Himself. Do not even have to go, click or do something. He is the first to take the initiative.
All this data is of course stored in the cloud, also anonymously helping various scientific institutes in their studies of human behavior.
Further, these devices should learn to communicate with each other through the tracing of connections on social networks and people suitable for communication. Themselves to choose with whom it is worth talking to the owner and with whom not. Apparently, this will actively hack and a centralized server for authorizing such acts and their reputation will appear. Then the older (long-lived) devices begin to acquire their individual value.
Most likely, then (although not a fact) it will become a separate personalized animal or anmeshka (Microsoft is moving there) with which it will be possible to communicate with speech and it will be displayed as a hologram on a 3D display, but this is some kind of science fiction.