“By 2049, most smartphones will be replaced by smart glasses. When billions of people living in urban areas wear these smart glasses, what they see is the superposition of the real world and the virtual world, thus forming the 'mirror world.'”
Said Jun 2025Deadline Dec 31, 2049Kevin Kelly, '2049: Possibilities in the Next 10,000 Days' (CITIC Press, June 2025); excerpted as 'Kevin Kelly's 85 Predictions for the Year 2049', 36Kr, June 25, 2025
Target date is 2049; wording is an English rendering of the Chinese-language edition.