Apple changed CEOs yesterday, choosing a hardware engineer to build what it believes comes next: a new kind of AI-native device, the very thing it’s fighting OpenAI in court to create. In this segment we look forward, calmly, at what that means for us — how each device revolution brought the machine closer, from the desk to the pocket to, now, something worn or always listening; why the coming AI companion could be genuinely kind and genuinely intrusive at once; and why the difference between those futures depends on whether we set the terms now, at the beginning, instead of asking the hard questions years later.
