Is the way we interact with computers about to change?

Collage of five scenes introducing GPT-6 Astra, showing people interacting with large projected screens and everyday tasks like shopping and writing
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra yesterday. What caught my attention wasn’t the model itself — it was the two-minute video showing how OpenAI people were interacting with it. People are seen talking to the model through their computer, and as they speak, Astra runs the same everyday apps we all use and finishes the task. Turning speech into software commands isn’t new. What’s different is the room itself: no desk, no keyboard, no screen on a table. People watch the output projected on a wall the way you’d watch a film — walking around, leaning back on a sofa, still talking and working. Forty years of hunching over a keyboard have cost us our backs and our necks. It didn’t have to stay this way. What OpenAI is showing, to me, is a computer we can work with the way we’d work with someone else in the room — not a tool we operate at a desk. Giving every employee in a company a setup like this isn’t realistic yet. But I have no doubt many managers will be working this way soon. What do you think? I regularly speak at leadership forums, founder circles, and CXO roundtables on generative AI and where work is headed next. If your leadership team wants a grounded, no-hype conversation on this shift, I’d be glad to bring it.

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