AI depends on data. Every search, click, and pause adds to a behavioral model that predicts what we will want next. Shoshana Zuboff, professor emerita at Harvard, described this process in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. She explains how companies turn human experience into raw material for prediction and profit.

By 2040, we will be living in a new world where cloud computing will become the Modern Stone Age. As processors become smaller and more efficient through neuromorphic and quantum architectures, intelligence will operate locally. Devices such as phones, cars, lenses, and implants will process information on their own. The cloud will function mainly as a coordination layer rather than the core of computation.