**[Elon Musk Predicts: Traditional Phones and Apps Will Disappear in Five Years]** According to a report by Cailian Press, Tesla CEO Elon Musk predicted a radical future during a podcast episode: in the next 5-6 years, traditional phones and apps will disappear, and most of the content consumed by humans will be AI-generated. Musk stated, "In the future, there will be no operating systems, no apps. Your phone will simply display pixels and emit sounds, predicting what you most want to see and hear, then generating it in real-time. We will integrate AI into this device as much as possible." "There will no longer be traditional phones in the conventional sense. What we call phones today will essentially become edge nodes for AI inference, equipped with some radio modules for connectivity." Musk proposed that fundamentally, server-side AI will communicate with AI on user devices (formerly known as phones) and generate any real-time video content users desire.